Low Cost Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems: Conventional and Recent Advances: Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering

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Dr. Xuan-Thanh BUI obtained the degree of engineer in chemical engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT) Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh (VNU-HCM) Viet Nam and received his M.Eng and Ph.D. degrees in environmental engineering at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Thailand. Currently he is an associate professor at the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources HCMUT VNU-HCM. He serves as chairman of Dept. of Water Science & Technology and head of VNU-HCM Key Laboratory of Advanced Waste Treatment Technology. His research focuses on membrane separation processes water and wastewater treatment technologies biological treatment processes and green technologies. He has published more than 100 SCIE journal papers 25 books/book chapters and 02 patents. Additionally he has played a role of project investigator of more than 50 international/national research projects in the field and organized three international conferences. Since 2017 he became members of the scientific committee in the field of earth sciences and environment of National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED) Ministry of Science and Technology Viet Nam. In addition he is editor board members of some journals such as Bioresource Technology Environmental Technology and Innovation Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering Vietnam Journal of Engineering Science and Technology. Professor Ashok Pandey is currently Distinguished Scientist at the Centre for Innovation and Translational Research CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research Lucknow India. His major research and technological development interests are industrial & environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences focusing on biomass to biofuels & chemicals waste to wealth & energy etc. He has 16 patents edited 125 books and authored over 1000 papers and book chapters. Dr. Thanh-Tin Nguyen currently works at Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He obtained Ph. D degree of engineer environmental engineering Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) South Korea. His research focuses on topics such as COF/MOF-based membrane for liquid separation and water treatment; nanomaterial-based Membranes for water Treatment and Desalination; Membrane separation processes (MF UF NF RO MD and FO); Membrane fabrication for water treatment/desalination liquid separation and biomedical Engineering; Porous material for micropollutant removal; Microalgae-based resource recovery and wastewater treatment; Biological processes for wastewater treatment; Novel desalination and wastewater reuse technologies and processes; Economic assessment in desalination/water/wastewater treatment process; Membrane fouling (characterization mass transport and modelling). He worked as postdoctoral researcher at GIST with focusing on developing a novel membrane for biomedical engineering application. He has served as a guest editor for two special issues of Membranes as well as a reviewer for prestigious journals such as the Journal of Hazardous Materials Bioresource Technology Desalination Journal of Membrane Science Separation and Purification Technology Science of Total Environment Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering Journal of Environmental Management Journal of Water Process Engineering. He gained an award of GIST young scientist for providing a part of funding on his research. He was also the recipient of the best presenter award at several international conferences: the best poster award (at the 10th International Desalination Workshop Busan Korea 2017) and the best orientation award (at the 6th IWA Regional Membrane Technology Conference Vadodara Gujarat India 2018). He has published 47 SCIE journal papers 5 book chapters and 1 techincal solution and applied 3 patents (under pending). Dr. Shu-Yuan Pan is currently an Assistant Professor at Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering National Taiwan University. Professor Shu-Yuan Pan received his Ph.D. from the National Taiwan University (2016) in environmental engineering. He served as a visiting researcher at Argonne National Laboratory and conducted postdoctoral research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2019 Dr. Pan joined National Taiwan University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. His research interests focus on the development of energy-efficient technologies for wastewater valorization as reclaimed water and value-added products. Professor Pan leads the Green Technology Lab” at National Taiwan University. Green Technology Lab is dedicating to provide green water service” in accordance with international movements and local demands such as circular economy and net-zero transformation. Pan has published more than 80 SCI articles (Google citation >4700 with an h-index of 36) and has received 8 patents. Pan is also the author or co-author of 1 book (entitled CO2 Mineralization and Utilization”) 5 book chapters 20+ journal articles (including Chinese Journals) and technical reports and 130+ papers in conference proceedings and symposium volumes. He is a Professional Engineer (PE) in environmental engineering licensed in Taiwan (ROC).