Organized By:
Centre for Environment Education and Technology (CEET),
Kottayam, India

In association with
Advanced Centre of Environmental Studies and Sustainable
Development (ACESSD), Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam,
Kerala & Karunya University, Coimbatore
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List of Speakers (incomplete list)

Mark R. Wiesner
Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT)
Duke University, USA
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Environmental Transport Phenomena, Physical-Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering, Implications of nanoparticles on environment.  

Yoram Oren
Department of Desalination and Water Treatment, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Blaustein Institutes for Desert research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Electrochemical processes for preserving the environment, surface phenomena, electrodialysis for water treatment and desalination, ion exchange membranes, electrochemical phenomena in pressure driven processes for water treatment (Reverse osmosis, nanofiltration), capacitive deionization, electrochemical aspects in biofouling of membranes for water treatment.  

Dipankar Chakraborti
School of Environmental Studies
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Water Quality & Management  

Dayanthi Nugegoda
Ecotoxicology Research Group
School of Applied Sciences
RMIT University, Australia
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Aquatic ecotoxicology, Pesticides, Trace metals, Endocrine disrupting chemicals, Nanoparticles and their effects on fish and invertebrates.  

Mattheus F. A. Goosen
Alfaisal University
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Water purification and treatment, renewable energy, membrane technology, and environmental management and sustainable development  

Rajeev Kumar Srivastava
Department of Environmental Sciences
G.B. Pant Univ. of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar Uttarakhand
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Environmental impact assessment and management, Industrial pollution control, Risk and Disaster management plan, Sustainable environmental development  

C. Namasivayam
Dept. of Environmental Sciences
Bharathiar University
Coimbatore
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Environmental Chemistry: Surface Science, Activated Carbon, Reutilization of Solid Wastes, Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation and Photochemistry.  

Mohammad Jawed
Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Biological Processes; Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment, Heavy Metal Removal and Recovery from Aqueous Environment, Domestic and Industrial Wastewater Treatment, Water Treatment and Supply, Manpower Training  

Anantharaj Ramalingam
Department of Chemical Engineering , University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Zero Emission form Liquid Fuels using Green Solvent, Zero Emissions from Industrial Waste Water using Green Solvent, Quantum Chemical based Phase Equilibria Studies, Thermodynamic Model based Phase Equilibria Studies, Quantum Chemical, Molecular Modeling and Simulation.  

M. Muthukumar
Department of Environmental Sciences
Bharathiar University
Coimbatore, T.N. India
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Water and Wastewater treatments using Ozone / Advanced Oxidation Processes / Photocatalysis / Electrochemical Processes, Microbial Fuel Cells, Sludge Reduction Process  

Jayachandran.K
School of Biosciences
Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Bioprocess Technology, Safety aspects of chlorination in drinking water systems.  

Anne Hansen
Mexican Institute of Water Technology,
Mexico
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Hydrogeochemistry, sediment-water and soil-water interactions of pollutants, and prevention and remediation of contamination.  

Martina Zelenakova
Technical University of Kosice,
Slovakia
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Water management, environmental risks, environmental impact assessment, and hydrology  

Akintunde Babatunde
Hydro-environmental Research Centre
Cardiff University School of Engineering,
Cardiff University, UK
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Processes and Systems for Sustainable Water Engineering and bioenergy  

A.H. Essadki
Chemical engineering department,
Superior School of Technology,
Casablanca, Morocco
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Hydrodynamic and mass transfer in fluidized bed, bubble columns, Airlift reactors, Electrocoagulation /Electroflotation : Treatment of heavy metals (chromium, cadmium...), defluoridation, Removal of dyes (reactive, disperse...), treatment of real textile effluent.  
Tasuma Suzuki
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Yamaguchi University, Japan
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Contamination by heavy metals  

Eldho. T.I
Department of Civil, IIT,
Bombay
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Water Resources and environmental engineering  

Lijo Francis
Water Desalination and Reuse Center
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Saudi Arabia
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Water Treatment, Seawater Desalination, Membrane Engineering, Membrane Distillation, Forward Osmosis, Electrospinning.  

O. P. Singh
Department of Environmental Studies,
North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong,
Meghalaya, India
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Water Pollution and Remediation; Natural Resource Management  
Prasanthi Hagare
University of Technology,
Sydney Australia
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Industrial pollution control, Hazardous waste management, Water and wastewater treatment, Solid waste management  

G.Arthanareeswaran
National Institute of Technology
Tiruchirapalli, India
 
  RESEARCH INTERESTS  
  Membrane preparation and formation, Membrane processes which include reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration for water and wastewater treatment, Pressure-driven membrane processes, membrane bioreactor technology, colloidal and interfacial aspects of membrane processes, Hybrid organic-inorganic membranes for separation applications, Composite membranes based on mixed matrix systems, Improved membranes for small molecule separations based on structure water purification and desalination, fouling resistance.  
Anurag Garg
IIT Bombay, Mumbai

RESEARCH INTERESTS
 
  Advanced oxidation processes (catalytic wet oxidation and Fenton) for the removal of persistent organic and inorganic compounds from industrial wastewaters, Nutrients removal from wastewater using a combination of physico-chemical and biological processes, Treatment of leachate (generated from Municipal solid waste landfill) using physico-chemical processes.  
Mark Green
Plymouth University, USA
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Water Quality analysis​
 
  • Saravanamuth Vigneswaran, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
  • Anand Krishnan Plappally, IIT, Jodhpur
  • L. Elango, Anna University, Chennai
  • Bhaskar Datta, IIT, Gandhinagar
  • nikolai Filatov, Petrozavodsk State University, Russia
  • Lee Ferguson, Duke University, USA
  • Giovana Tommaso, University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil

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Organized By:

Centre for Environment Education and Technology (CEET), Kottayam, India
In association with
Advanced Centre of Environmental Studies and Sustainable
Development (ACESSD), Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam,
Kerala & Karunya University, Coimbatore

Contact

Dr.K. Usha
Convener, ICW - 2015
Center for Environment Education
and Technology (CEET),
Kiranam, Arpookara East P.O. Kottayam, Kerala, India - 686008
e-mail: waterconference2015@gmail.com
website: www.ceetindia.org/icw2015