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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Wastewater is a byproduct of domestic, industrial, commercial or agricultural activities. The characteristics of wastewater vary depending on the source. Types of wastewater include: domestic wastewater from households, municipal wastewater from communities and industrial wastewater. Wastewater can contain physical, chemical and biological pollutants.
At global level, appropriate wastewater treatment is still lacking in many countries. Wastewater treatment is done to improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally.
This book focuses on source, characteristics and treatment of wastewater particularly in industrial environment. The treatment methods include physical, chemical and biological methods. The book has been divided into five chapters namely, Water Quality and Preliminary Treatment, Adsorption and Oxidation Processes, Wastewater Treatment, Industrial Water Treatment and Conventional Treatment Methods
The authors hope that this book will enable the readers to understand well the concepts of wastewater treatment.
P Kamaraj, P A Vivekanand, P A Vivekanand, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Saveetha Engineering College, Chennai-602105
Dr.P.Kamaraj is currently the Dean [Science and Humanities] at Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University), Chennai, India. He served earlier as Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry in SRM University. He has been in teaching profession for about 26years. He received his Doctoral degree from Anna University and Post Graduate degree from the University of Madras in 1992 and 1986 respectively. He has guided Ph.D., M.S, M.Sc. and M.Phil., students under different universities. His research areas include Energy materials, Photo catalysis, Corrosion, Sensors and nano materials.Professor Kamaraj has got 4 Patents and has published over 120 research papers in high impact journals. He has authored over 7 text and reference books. His books have been prescribed as text and reference books in many Indian Universities including Anna University. He had been serving as Chairman, Board of Studies-Chemistry, Member-Academic Council and Research Advisory Board in different universities. Professor Kamaraj received academic and research awards including Research award from the Institution of Engineers (I) and Hot article of the year 2019 recently from Royal Society of Chemistry Journal, CST.
Dr. P. A. Vivekanand carried out is Doctoral programme in University of Madras and did his postdoctoral research at the prestigious Hungkhuang University,Taichung,Taiwan. Published his research finding in High Impact international Journals. Dr. P. A. Vivekanand is a Professor and Senior Researcher at Saveetha Engineering College(Anna University),Chennai, India. Professor Vivekanand has taught Organo-Physical Chemistry for many years to B.S.,M.S., and Ph.D students for many years. His teaching skills are exceptionally strong and these are proved by several thousand students and peer evaluations. He has presided over dozen National and International Conferences. He is acting as Editor, Reviewer and Editorial Board member of various peer reviewed international journals. He is also invited to write textbooks by major publishers such as Nova Publishers, Intech Publishers, Cambridge Scholars, Notion Press,INSC Press etc.,
