Sonochemical Water and Wastewater Decontamination

The sonochemical process is newly advanced oxidation process (AOP) developed for hazardous pollutants destruction in aqueous effluents. This technique produces, in situ, a highly oxidative environment via the irradiation of aqueous solution using high frequency ultrasound to degrade potential contaminants. This book covers sonochemical pollutant degradation from fundamental principles, recent application, to challenges and future trends.

Auteur
Slimane Merouani

Slimane Merouani is full Professor of process engineering at Department of Chemical Engineering, Salah Boubnider Constantine 3 University (Algeria). He received his Accreditation to Supervise Research (ASR) (2015) in process engineering from Constantine 3 Salah Boubnider University, his PhD (2014) and Magister (MSc) (2010) in chemical engineering from Badji Mokhtar-Annaba University (Algeria) and his state engineer diploma (2006) in chemical engineering from Constantine 1 University (Algeria). His research interests focus on innovative technologies for water and wastewater treatment, especially, sonochemistry and advanced oxidation processes (AOPs). Prof. Merouani has successfully supervised to completion the work of 5 PhD and 19 MSc, and currently, 05 PhD thesis are under his supervision. To date, Prof. Merouani has over 95 peer-reviewed international publications and 17 book chapters. His publications have been cited over 2257 times (Scopus), with five having been cited more than 100 times each, and he has an author h-index of 26 (Scopus). Prof. Merouani has appeared in the 2022 list of the World's Top 2% Scientists (the Highly Cited Researchers) published by Stanford University. Actually, Prof. Merouani is Associate Editor of the journal Scientific African, edited by Elsevier, and Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Ultrasound, Sonochemistry and Innovative Separation Technologies Applied to Chemical and Environmental Engineering" in the journal Molecules, edited by MDPI. In parallel, he supervised many research project focusing on water treatment by sonochemistry and AOPs. Oualid Hamdaoui Oualid Hamdaoui is full Professor of Chemical Engineering at King Saud University (Saudi Arabia). He is currently leading the research group "Advanced Oxidation and Separation Processes". After receiving his B.Sc. and M.Sc. both in Chemical Engineering from Annaba University (Algeria), he obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental Chemical Engineering from University of Savoie (France) and Sc.D. in Chemical Engineering from Annaba University. He completed his Habilitation (Accreditation to Supervise Research) in Process Engineering from Annaba University. He has figured among the top two percent best scientists in the world in a database created by Stanford University, together with the publishing house Elsevier and SciTech Strategies. His main research interests are focused on sonochemistry, acoustic cavitation, advanced oxidation processes, separation processes and desalination and water treatment. He has published more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals, ~20 book chapter, and edited the Elsevier book "Energy Aspects of Acoustic Cavitation and Sonochemistry: Fundamentals and Engineering". His h-idex is 47 with 7498 citations (Scopus). He has held several academic appointments as coordinator of Master and Doctorate programs in Chemical and Environmental Process Engineering. He has received many awards including the Thomson Reuters Award in Engineering, Scopus Award (Elsevier) in Chemical Engineering, Francophonie Award for young researchers option Sciences and Medicine, ranked first on the list of suitable candidates to the title of full professor (technology section) of the twenty-sixth (26th) session of the National University Commission, Abdul-Hameed Shoman Award for Young Arab Researchers in Engineering Sciences, Jordan and the best scientific publication award of The National Agency for the Development of University Research

Maulin P. Shah

Prof. Maulin P. Shah, currently Chief Scientist & Head - Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India, received his Ph.D. (2002-2005) in Environmental Microbiology from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat. He has