The book aims to highlight the application of microbial electrochemical technologies, their fundamental to advanced, recent applications, management strategies, and relevant case studies. The book also attempts to highlight existing research and technological advancements on all facets of instruments and methods for assessing and keeping track of water contaminants. The section on current trends and advancements in this book discusses the most recent advancements in microbial electrochemical technologies and related technologies to lessen the contamination of water resources. The book goes into great detail about the fundamental aspects of water pollution, including their causes, primary sources, detection, treatment, and mitigation using microbial electrochemical technologies and management systems as well as commercialization and economics thoughts that are currently of significant importance.
Additionally, with the aid of appropriate tables and figures, all of these chapters havebeen arranged according to recent developments and aspects of the field. The book's goal is to give readers a fundamental understanding of how microbial electrochemical technologies work.
It is intended for a wide range of readers, including undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, academicians, environmentalists, policymakers, businesspeople, and R&D teams. We gratefully thank all of the authors. We'll be open to recommendations for making the next book or edition better.
Dr. Rangabhashiyam Selvasembian currently working as Head and Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Sciences, SRM University-AP, India. Previously worked in the Department of Biotechnology, School of Chemical & Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, India. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from National Institute of Technology Calicut, India. He was awarded Post-Doctoral Fellowship by Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, 2015, Germany. He was further awarded the National-Post Doctoral Fellowship from SERB-DST, 2016-2018, India. Dr Rangabhashiyam Selvasembian was awarded as Young Scientist by DST, India for the BRICS Conclave held in Durban, 2018, South Africa and was the recipient of Hiyoshi Young Leaf Award from Hiyoshi Ecological Services, Hiyoshi Corporation, 2018, Japan. His major research interests are waste valorization and wastewater treatment. He is Editorial Board Member in Separation & Purification Reviews (T&F); Inorganic Chemistry Communications (Elsevier); Current Pollution Reports (Springer); Scientific Reports (Nature); Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (Springer); Environmental Management (Springer). He is also serving as Associate Editor in South African Journal of Chemical Engineering (Elsevier); Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry; International Journal of Environmental Science & Technology (Springer); IET Nanobiotechnology (Wiley) and as an Academic Editor for Adsorption Science and Technology. He has published more than 150 peer reviewed articles and contributed several book chapters. He is editing books from prestigious publishers such as Elsevier, Wiley, CRC, and Springer. Dr Rangabhashiyam Selvasembian was listed in Top 2% (2021, 2022 and 2023) most cited research scientists in the world as per data published by Stanford University USA.
Dr. Joyabrata Mal is currently working as Assistant Professor at Department of Biotechnology, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad (MNNIT Allahabad), Prayagraj, India,
since 2019. Dr. Mal completed his Ph.D. from UNESCO-IHE, Netherlands, as an
Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Biotechnology. Before
joining MNNIT Allahabad, he was Post-doctoral Researcher at University of
Berkeley, USA, where he worked primarily on environmental microbiology studying
selenium biogeochemistry, andthen at National University of Ireland Galway,
Ireland, where he worked on metal(loid)s bioremediation and recovery. His
research primarily focuses on biological treatment of wastewater using various
reactors (e.g., UASB, SBR, CW-MFC), bioremediation and resource recovery,
environmental nanotechnology and its implication in wastewater treatment,
sustainable agriculture, and eco-toxicity.
Dr Sovik Das is presently working as an Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering section of the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India He completed doctoral research work in the field of environmental engineering from the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He is engaged in research work pertaining to bioelectrochemical systems like microbial electrosynthesis cell, microbial fuel cell and microbial electrolysis cell for the treatment of different waste stream with concomitant valuable recovery which has gained more than 2000 citations as per Google Scholar. Currently he is looking in the domain of green hydrogen production from waste and removal of emerging contaminants from water matrix through both electrochemical and bioelectrochemical technologies. He has more than 60 international publications in reputed international journals and eleven book chapters to his credit. Also, he is currently editing two books for International Water Association and Springer Nature. Further, he is also the Associate Editor of Sustainable Chemistry for the Environment of Elsevier, Heliyon (Chemical Engineering Section) of Cell Press, Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste of ASCE and Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports published by Nature. Moreover, he has served as reviewer for more than 60 international journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Wiley etc. and has reviewed more than 500 manuscripts.
Dr. Dakeshwar Kumar Verma, PhD., is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Govt. Digvijay Autonomous Postgraduate College, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, 491441, India. He has studied in the Ph.D. program at the National Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. He has more than 70 peer-reviewed international publications in Scopus and Web of Science journals of ACS, RSC, Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, Nature and Taylor & Francis with two patents and has delivered numerous oral and poster presentations in international meetings. He contributed over 35 book chapters to various international books. His H-index is 28 and his total citation is 2300 in Google Scholar database. His research is mainly focused on the preparation and designing of materials used in the field of nanomaterials, green chemistry, quantum chemistry, and organic synthesis for various industrial applications. Recently, he is serving as Author and Editor/Co-editor of above 20 books published by ACS, Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and De-Gruyter platform indexed in Scopus. Dr. Verma received the CSIR JRF & SRF awards in 2013 and 2015. Recently, 4 students are doing Ph.D. under his guidance.
Dr. Ioannis
Anastopoulos is Assistant Professor at the Department of Agriculture,
University of Ioannina, Arta, Greece. He has worked in postdoctoral research at
the Agricultural Research Institute (Cyprus), the University of Patras
(Greece), the University of Cyprus (Cyprus), and Hellenic Mediterranean
University (Greece). His research is focused on the estimation of greenhouse
gas emissions from agricultural soils after receiving organic and inorganic
materials, the fabrication of different adsorbents for wastewater treatment,
and the use of organic amendments for soil remediation. He is Author of
publications in peer-reviewed journals (>100 articles) with more than 6000
citations and he served as Reviewer by invitation for more than 39 scientific
journals. Moreover, he served as Guest Editor in many special issues. His name
is also included in the 2% top of world scientists for the years 2019-21.
