Handbook of Advanced Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Management

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Lawrence K. Wang has more than 28 years of experience in facility design environmental sustainability natural resources resources recovery global pollution control construction plant operation and management. He has expertise in water supply air pollution control solid waste disposal water resources waste treatment and hazardous waste management. He is a retired dean/director/VP of the Lenox Institute of Water Technology Krofta Engineering Corporation and Zorex Corporation respectively in the USA. Dr. Wang is the author of over 700 papers and 45 books and is credited with 24 U.S. patents and 5 foreign patents. He received his BSCE from National Cheng-Kung University Taiwan ROC his two MS degrees from the Missouri University of Science and Technology and the University of Rhode Island USA and his PhD degree from Rutgers University USA. Currently he is the Chief Series Editor of the Advances in Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment series (CRC Press of Taylor & Francis Group) and the Handbook of Environmental Engineering series (Springer).Mu-Hao Sung Wang has been an engineer an editor and a professor serving private firms governments and universities in the USA and Taiwan for over 25 years. She is a licensed Professional Engineer and a Diplomate of American Academy of Environmental Engineers. Her publications have been in the areas of water quality modelling environmental sustainability waste management NPDES flotation and analytical methods. Dr. Wang is the author of over 50 publications and an inventor of 14 US and foreign patents. She received her BSCE from National Cheng Kung University Taiwan ROC her MSCE from the University of Rhode Island USA and her PhD from Rutgers University USA. She is the Co-Series Editor of the Handbook of Environmental Engineering series (Springer) and a member of AWWA NEWWA WEF and OCEESA.Yung-Tse Hung has been a professor of civil engineering at Cleveland State University since 1981. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and has taught at 16 universities in 8 countries. His research interests and publications have been involved with biological processes and industrial waste treatment. Dr. Hung is credited with over 470 publications and presentations on water and wastewater treatment. He received his BSCE and MSCE from National Cheng-Kung University Taiwan and his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin USA. He is the editor of International Journal of Environment and Waste Management International Journal of Environmental Engineering and International Journal of Environmental Engineering Science.Nazih K. Shammas is an environmental consultant and professor for over 45 years. He is an ex-dean/director of the Lenox Institute of Water Technology and an advisor to Krofta Engineering Corporation USA. Dr. Shammas is the author of over 250 publications and 15 books in the field of environmental engineering. He has experience in environmental planning curriculum development teaching scholarly research and expertise in water quality control wastewater reclamation and reuse physicochemical and biological processes and water and wastewater systems. He received his BE degree from the American University of Beirut Lebanon his MS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his PhD from the University of Michigan USA. J. Paul Chen has been a professor in the environmental engineering program in the National University of Singapore (NUS) since 1998. His research interests are physicochemical treatment of water and wastewater and modelling. He has published three books more than 100 journal papers and book chapters with citation of above 4600 and H-index of 39 (ISI). He holds seven patents in the areas of adsorption and membrane technologies and ballast water management systems. He has received various honors and awards including the Sustainable Technology Award from the IChemE Guest Professor of the Huazhong University of Science & Technology and Shandong University China and Distinguished Overseas Chinese Young Scholar of National Natural Science Foundation China. He has been recognized as an author of highly cited papers (Chemistry and Engineering) of ISI Web of Knowledge. Professor Chen received his ME degree from Tsinghua University and his PhD degree from Georgia Tech. USA.