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Frontiersin Water-Energy-Nexus—Nature-Based Solutions,Advanced Technologiesand Best Practicesfor EnvironmentalSustainabilityProceedings of the 2nd WaterEnergyNEXUSConference, November 2018, Salerno, Italy

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EditorsVincenzo NaddeoDepartment of Civil EngineeringUniversity of SalernoFisciano, Salerno, Italy

Malini BalakrishnanThe Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)New Delhi, India

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About the Conference Steering Committee

Honorary Chair

Vincenzo Belgiorno, University of Salerno, Italy

Symposium Chairpersons

Malini Balakrishnan, The Energy and Resources Institute(TERI), India

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Vincenzo Naddeo, University of Salerno, Italy

Kwang-Ho Choo, Kyungpook National University, Korea

Conference Organization Committee

Salvatore Barba, University of Salerno, ItalyLaura Borea, University of Salerno, ItalyFabiano Castrogiovanni, University of Salerno, ItalyAlessandra Cesaro, University of Salerno, ItalyLucia D’Elia, Sponge s.r.lAngela Fraiese, University of Salerno, ItalySimona Iannizzaro, University of Salerno, ItalyAlessandra Marra, University of Salerno, ItalyGiusy Oliva, University of Salerno, ItalyDomenico Russo, University of Salerno, ItalyFrancesco Villecco, University of Salerno, ItalyTiziano Zarra, University of Salerno, Italy

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Scientific Committees

Topic 1: Nexus Framework and Governance

Prof. Damià Barceló, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), SpainDr. Malini Balakrishnan, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), IndiaDr. Robert Brears, Urban Water Security, New ZealandProf. Kwang-Ho Choo, Kyungpook National University, KoreaProf. Ola M. Gomaa, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, EgyptDr. Nabil Khélifi, Springer, a part of Springer Nature, GermanyProf. Mohamed Ksibi, University of Sfax, Tunisia

Topic 2: Advanced Technologies or Nature-Based Solutions for the EnvironmentalSustainability of the Water Sector

Dr. Massimo Spadoni, Embassy of Italy in New Delhi, IndiaDr. Daniele Di Trapani, University of Palermo, ItalyProf. Jeonghwan Kim, INHA University, KoreaProf. Gregory Korshin, University of Washington, USAProf. Changha Lee, Seoul National University, KoreaDr. Jeong-ik Oh, Korea Land & Housing Corporation, KoreaProf. Gaspare Viviani, University of Palermo, ItalyProf. Jannis Wenk, University of Bath, UKProf. Maria Chiara Zanetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Topic 3: Control of Hazardous Substances in Water and Recovery of Renewable/Valuable Resources from Wastewater

Prof. Kangwoo Cho, Pohang University of Science and Technology, KoreaProf. Shadi Wajih Hasan, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, UAEProf. Haizhou Liu, University of California Riversides, USAProf. Vincenzo Naddeo, University of Salerno, ItalyDr. Stefano Papiro, University of Napoli Federico II, ItalyProf. Francesco Pirozzi, University of Napoli Federico II, ItalyProf. Alberto Tiraferri, Politecnico di Torino, ItalyProf. Ngai Yin Yip, Columbia University, USA

Topic 4: Energy Saving Technologies and Future Clean Energy Solutions Under WaterConstraints

Prof. Marc A. Anderson, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USAProf. Vincenzo Belgiorno, University of Salerno, ItalyProf. Massimiliano Fabbricino, University of Napoli Federico II, ItalyProf. Claudio Lubello, University of Firenze, ItalyProf. Raul Munoz, Valladolid University, SpainDr. Jesus Palma, IMDEA Energy, SpainProf. Sebastià Puig, Universitat de Girona, SpainProf. Mohammad Taherzadeh, University of Borås, Sweden

Topic 5: Implementation and Best Practices

Prof. Florencio C. Ballesteros, University of the Philippines Diliman, PhilippinesDr. Alessandra Cesaro, University of Salerno, ItalyProf. Mark Daniel G. De Luna, University of the Philippines Diliman, PhilippinesProf. Takaya Higuchi, Yamaguchi University, Japan

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Prof. Predrag Miranovic, University of Montenegro, MontenegroDr. Marwa S. Shalaby, National Research Center, EgyptDr. Giacomo Viccione, University of Salerno, ItalyDr. Tiziano Zarra, University of Salerno, Italy

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Contents

Nexus Framework and Governance

Approaching Bioelectrochemical Systems to Real FacilitiesWithin the Framework of CO2 Valorization and Biogas Upgrading . . . . . . . . . . . 3Laura Rovira, Pau Batlle-Vilanova, Sebastià Puig, Maria Dolors Balaguer,Pilar Icaran, Victor M. Monsalvo, Frank Rogalla, and Jesús Colprim

Water-Energy Nexus in the Gulf: A Complex Network of Multi-levelInterdependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Ghena Alhanaee and Najmedin Meshkati

A Risk Assessment Approach for Water-Energy Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Antonio Nesticò, Gianluigi De Mare, and Gabriella Maselli

Estimating the Declining Discount Rate for the Economic Evaluation of Projectsin the Energy and Water Sectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Antonio Nesticò and Gabriella Maselli

Towards Resilience-Informed Decision-Making in Critical InfrastructureNetworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Maryam Imani, Donya Hajializadeh, and Vasos Christodoulides

Short-Term Forecasting of Tank Water Levels Serving Urban WaterDistribution Networks with ARIMA Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Claudio Guarnaccia, Carmine Tepedino, Giacomo Viccione, and Joseph Quartieri

Energy Balance in the Water Cycle in Italy: State of the Artand Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Giorgio Bertanza, Sabrina Sorlini, and Mentore Vaccari

Water–Energy Nexus: Evaluation of the Environmental Impacton the National and International Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Alessia Murena, Laura Borea, Tiziano Zarra, Joanna Boguniewicz-Zablocka,Vincenzo Belgiorno, and Vincenzo Naddeo

Water Scarcity and Shale Gas Prospects in Tunisia—Potential Impactsof Hydraulic Fracturing on Regional Water Stress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Lisa Murken

Energy Performance of Italian Urban Water Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41L. Mancusi, M. Volonterio, and E. Garofalo

Analysis of the Economic Net Benefit of Green Infrastructure by Comparingthe Water-Retentive Block and the Normal Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Kyeonjae Woo, Bae Woo Bin, Ko Jong Hwan, Kim Sang Rae, and Kim Yong Gil

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Levering Industry and Professional Qualifications Over Water Efficiencyand Water–Energy Nexus in Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Ana Poças, Pedro Cardoso, Filipa Newton, Diogo Beirão,Charalampos Malamatenios, Georgia Veziryiani, Esther Rodriguez,Javier González, Rossella Martino, and Diego De Gisi

WEFSiM: A Model for Water–Energy–Food Nexus Simulationand Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Albert Wicaksono, Gimoon Jeong, and Doosun Kang

Assessment of Rain Harvesting and RES Desalination for Meeting Water Needsin an Island in Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Konstantinos Kotsifakis, Ioannis Kourtis, Elissavet Feloni,and Evangelos Baltas

Grounding Nexus Governance: De-Nexused Developments in Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . 63Dipak Gyawali and Jeremy Allouche

Maximizing Water–Food–Energy Nexus Synergies at Basin Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Rogier E. A. Burger and Edo Abraham

Visualizing CO2 to Account for Emission Obligation in Power Systems . . . . . . . . 71Mahdi Rouholamini, Carol Miller, Caisheng Wang, Mohsen Mohammadian,and Mohammadamin Moghbeli

Selection of Key Characteristics for Crops to Deal with Climate ChangeThrough Quality Function Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75A. Robayo Avendaño and D. Prato Garcia

Combined Electrodialysis and Photo-Electro-Chlorination for Energy EfficientControl of Brine Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Hyeonjeong Kim, Wonyong Choi, and Kangwoo Cho

Advanced Technologies or Nature-Based Solutions for the EnvironmentalSustainability of the Water Sector

Hydrogen Production in Electro Membrane Bioreactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Laura Borea, Fabiano Castrogiovanni, Giovanna Ferro, Shadi Wajih Hasan,Vincenzo Belgiorno, and Vincenzo Naddeo

Use of High-Valent Metal Species Produced by the Fenton (-like) Reactionsin Water Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Changha Lee

Photocatalytic Oxidation of Organic Compounds by Visible Light-Illuminatedg-C3N4-AQ in Combination with Fe(III) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91Jiwon Seo, Soo Yeon Park, Hak-Hyeon Kim, and Changha Lee

Microalgae-Based Processes as an Energy Efficient Platform for WaterReclamation and Resource Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95María del Rosario Rodero, Roxana Ángeles, Victor Pérez, Juan Gancedo,Silvia Bolado, Raquel Lebrero, and Raúl Muñoz

Ozonation in the Framework of Sustainable Future Water Management . . . . . . . 99Jannis Wenk, Garyfalia A. Zoumpouli, and John Y. M. Chew

Pilot Study for Spiral Wound-PVDF Supported UF Membranes for BrackishWater Desalination System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103M. S. Shalaby, H. Abdallah, and Ahmed M. H. Shaban

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Energy Monitoring of a Wastewater Treatment Plant in Salerno, CampaniaRegion (Southern Italy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107Maria Rosa di Cicco, Antonio Spagnuolo, Antonio Masiello, Carmela Vetromile,Carmine Lubritto, Mariano Nappa, and Gaetano Corbo

Sulfate Radicals-Based Technology as a Promising Strategy for WastewaterManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113María Arellano, M. Ángeles Sanromán, and Marta Pazos

Fluoxetine and Pirimicarb Abatement by Ecofriendly Electro-FentonProcess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Emílio Rosales, António Soares, G. Buftia, Marta Pazos, G. Lazar,Cristina Delerue-Matos, and M. Ángeles Sanromán

Diversity and Performance of Sulphate-Reducing Bacteria in Acid MineDrainage Remediation Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121Enoch A. Akinpelu, Elvis Fosso-Kankeu, Frans Waanders, Justine O. Angadam,and Seteno K. O. Ntwampe

Sustainable Materials for Affordable Point-of-Use Water Purification . . . . . . . . . . 125Sritama Mukherjee, Ligy Philip, and Thalappil Pradeep

Self-Forming Dynamic Membrane: A Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129J. M. J. Millanar-Marfa, Laura Borea, Mark Daniel G. De Luna, Vincenzo Belgiorno,and Vincenzo Naddeo

Influence of Membrane Flux, Ultrasonic Frequency and Recycle Ratioin the Hybrid Process USAMe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133Laura Borea, Vincenzo Naddeo, and Vincenzo Belgiorno

Using Water–Energy Nexus as Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation Toolin Wastewater Treatment Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137B. Del Río-Gamero, A. Ramos-Martín, N. Melián-Martel,and S. O. Pérez-Baez

Corrosion Behavior of Carbon Steel in the Presence of Escherichia coliand Pseudomonas fluorescens Biofilm in Reclaimed Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Ping Xu, Yumin Ou, and Zhigang Wei

Development of Pilot-Scale Photocatalytic Reactor Employing Novel TiO2

Epoxy Grains for Wastewater Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145Yasmine Abdel-Maksoud, Emad Imam, and Adham Ramadan

Evaluation of Fungal White-Rot Strains for Assisting in Algal Harvestin Wastewater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149M. Hultberg and H. Bodin

Event Scale Modeling of Experimental Green Roofs Runoff in a MediterraneanEnvironment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Mirka Mobilia and Antonia Longobardi

Advanced Technologies for Satellite Monitoring of Water Resources . . . . . . . . . . 157Maria Nicolina Papa, Giuseppe Ruello, Francesco Mitidieri, and Donato Amitrano

Tannery Wastewater Treatment After Biological Pretreatment by UsingElectrochemical Oxidation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Tran Le Luu, Tran Tan Tien, Nguyen Ba Duong, and Nguyen Thi Thanh Phuong

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Numerical Modelling of Integrated OMBR-NF Hybrid System for SimultaneousWastewater Reclamation and Brine Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165Shadi Wajih Hasan and Vincenzo Naddeo

Climate, Soil Moisture and Drainage Layer Properties Impact on Green Roofsin a Mediterranean Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169Mirka Mobilia, Roberta D’Ambrosio, and Antonia Longobardi

Orthophosphate Versus Bicarbonate for Buffering the Acidificationin a Bromide Enhanced Ozonation of Ammonia Nitrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173Barbara Ruffino and Maria Chiara Zanetti

New Approach with Fluidized Bed Reactor Using Low-CostPyrophyllite/Alumina Composite Membrane for Real-Metal PlatingWastewater Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177Soomin Chang, Deaeun Kwon, and Jeonghwan Kim

Impact of Seasonality on Quorum Quenching Efficacy and Stabilityfor Biofouling Control in Membrane Bioreactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Kibaek Lee, Jun-Seong Park, Tahir Iqbal, Chang Hyun Nahm, Pyung-Kyu Park,and Kwang-Ho Choo

Surface Modification of RO Desalination Membrane Using ZnO Nanoparticlesof Different Morphologies to Mitigate Fouling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183Revathy Rajakumaran, Boddu Vinisha, Mathava Kumar, and Raghuram Chetty

Nutrient Removal and Biomass Production by ImmobilizedChlorella Vulgaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187Marion Lux Y. Castro and Florencio C. Ballesteros Jr.

Treatment of Printed Circuit Board Wastewater Containing Copper and NickelIons by Fluidized-Bed Homogeneous Granulation Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191Nathaniel E. Quimada, Mark Daniel G. De Luna, and Ming-Chun Lu

Investigation of the Synthesis and Adsorption Kinetics of Biochar-SupportedFe3-XMnxO4 for Imidacloprid Pesticide Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195Mark Daniel G. De Luna, Michael M. Sablas, Chiu-Wen Chen, and Cheng-Di Dong

A Kinetic Study of Calcium Carbonate Granulation Through Fluidized-BedHomogeneous Process for Removal of Calcium-Hardness from Rawand Tap Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199Arianne S. Sioson, Mark Daniel G. De Luna, and Ming-Chun Lu

Destruction of Selected Pharmaceuticals with Peroxydisulfate (PDS):An Influence of PDS Activation Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203Robert Wolski, Monika Półtorak, Iwona Rykowska, Sławomir Kaczmarek,and Przemysław Andrzejewski

Non-destructive In Situ Fouling Monitoring in Membrane Processes . . . . . . . . . . 207L. Fortunato, S. Jeong, and T. Leiknes

Preparation of TiO2/SiO2 Ceramic Membranes Via Solgel Dip Coatingfor the Treatment of Produced Wastewater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211Sarah S. Marzouk, Fawzi Banat, and Shadi Wajih Hasan

Multicriteria Evaluation of Novel Technologies for OrganicMicropollutants Removal in Advanced Water Reclamation Schemesfor Indirect Potable Reuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215C. Echevarría, I. Martin, M. Arnaldos, X. Bernat, C. Valderrama, and J. L. Cortina

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Environmental or Economic Considerations in Photo-Fenton Processes:What Choice Has the Most Notable Benefits for Large-Scale Applications? . . . . . 219D. Prato Garcia and A. Robayo Avendaño

Optimization of Energy Consumption in Activated Sludge Process Using DeepLearning Selective Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223Rafik Oulebsir, Abdelouahab Lefkir, Abdelmalek Bermad,and Abdelhamid Safri

Electrochemical Sensors for Emerging Contaminants: DiclofenacPreconcentration and Detection on Paper-Based Electrodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227E. Costa-Rama, Henri P. A. Nouws, Cristina Delerue-Matos, M. C. Blanco-López,and M. T. Fernández-Abedul

Optimization of the Wastewater Treatment Plant: From Energy Savingto Environmental Impact Mitigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231D. Panepinto, V. Riggio, Barbara Ruffino, G. Campo, A. Cerutti, S. Borzooei,M. Ravina, I. Bianco, and Maria Chiara Zanetti

Influence of Microalgae–Bacteria Consortium on Pathogens Removal(Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli) from Domestic Wastewater . . . . . 235Graziele Ruas, Mayara Leite Serejo, Priscila Guenka Scarcelli,and Marc Árpád Boncz

Fuzzy-Assisted Ultrafiltration of Wastewater from Milk Industries . . . . . . . . . . . . 239Francesco Villecco, Rita Patrizia Aquino, Vincenza Calabrò, Maria Ida Corrente,Antonio Grasso, and Vincenzo Naddeo

Performance of Electro-Fenton Water Treatment Technology in DecreasingZebrafish Embryotoxicity Elicited by a Mixture of Organic Contaminants . . . . . . 243João Amorim, Carlos Pinheiro, Isabel Abreu, Pedro Rodrigues,M. Ángeles Sanromán, Emílio Rosales, Marta Pazos, António Soares,Cristina Delerue-Matos, Aurélia Saraiva, Luís Oliva-Teles,António Paulo Carvalho, and Laura Guimarães

An Overview of Photocatalytic Drinking Water Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247Miray Bekbolet

Solar Light-Initiated Photoinactivation of E. coli: Influence of Natural OrganicMatter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249Ceyda S. Uyguner-Demirel, Ezgi Lale, Nazmiye Cemre Birben, and Miray Bekbolet

Molecular Size Distribution Profiles of Organic Matrix in Reverse OsmosisConcentrate Under Oxidative and Non-oxidative Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253Nazmiye Cemre Birben and Miray Bekbolet

Solar Photocatalytic Degradation of Humic Acids Using Copper-Doped TiO2 . . . . 257Miray Bekbolet and Nazli Turkten

Hyperspectral Monitoring of a Constructed Wetland as a Tertiary Treatmentin a Wastewater Treatment Plant for Domestic Sewage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261Agostina Chiavola, Cecilia Bagolan, Monica Moroni,and Simona Bongirolami

Applicability of WQI and Scientific Communication for Conservationof River Ganga System in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265Gagan Matta

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Techno-Economic Feasibility of Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269Paolo Roccaro and Federico G. A. Vagliasindi

Electrochemical Wastewater Treatment with SnO2-Based Electrodes:A Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271Duong Hieu Linh and Tran Le Luu

Control of Hazardous Substances in Water and Recovery of Renewable/Valuable Resources from Wastewater

Statistical Analysis of the Quality Indicators of the Danube River Water(in Romania) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277Alina Bărbulescu, Lucica Barbeş, and Anita Dani

Statistical Analysis of the Water Quality of the Major Rivers in India . . . . . . . . . 281Anita Dani and Alina Bărbulescu

Methane and Hydrogen Production from Cotton Wastes in Dark FermentationProcess Under Anaerobic and Microaerobic Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285Gaweł Sołowski, Izabela Konkol, and Adam Cenian

Microalgae Production Coupled with Simulated Blackwater Treatment . . . . . . . . 289Luan de Souza Leite, Maria Teresa Hoffmann, and Luiz Antonio Daniel

Waterborne Diseases in Sebou Watershed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293Rachida El Morabet, Mohamed Aneflouss, and Said El Mouak

Chances and Barriers of Wastewater Heat Recovery from a MultidisciplinaryPerspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297Florian Kretschmer and Thomas Ertl

Mine Water in the Closure of a Coal Basin: From Waste to PotentialResources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301Javier Menéndez and Jorge Loredo

Water Pollution by Polychlorinated Biphenyls from the Energy Sectorof Armenia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305A. Aleksandryan, A. Khachatryan, and Yu. Bunyatyan

Semi-continuous Anaerobic Digestion of Orange Peel Waste: PreliminaryResults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309Paolo S. Calabrò, Filippo Fazzino, Adele Folino, and Dimitrios Komilis

Nonwoven Wet Wipes Can Be Hazardous Substances in WastewaterSystems—Evidences from a Field Measurement Campaignin Berlin, Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313Raja-Louisa Mitchell, Michel Gunkel, Jan Waschnewski, and Paul Uwe Thamsen

Wastewater to Energy: Relating Granule Size and Biogas Production of UASBReactors Treating Municipal Wastewater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317Isaac Owusu-Agyeman, Elzbieta Plaza, and Zeynep Cetecioglu

CO2 Biofixation by Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Using Different CO2 DosingStrategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321Nilesh R. Badgujar, Franscesco Di Capua, Stefano Papirio, Francesco Pirozzi,Piet N. L. Lens, and Giovanni Esposito

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A Suggestion on Nutrient Removal/Recovery from Source Separated HumanUrine Using Clinoptilolite Combined with Anaerobic Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325B. Beler-Baykal, M. N. Taher, and M. Altinbas

Niches for Bioelectrochemical Systems in Wastewater Treatment Plants . . . . . . . . 329Miguel Osset-Álvarez, Laura Alsina, Narcis Pous, Ramiro Blasco-Gómez,Jesús Colprim, M. Dolors Balaguer, and Sebastià Puig

Degradation of Gaseous VOCs by Ultrasonication: Effect of Water Recirculationand Ozone Addition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333Jose Comia Jr., Giuseppina Oliva, Tiziano Zarra, Vincenzo Naddeo,Florencio C. Ballesteros Jr., and Vincenzo Belgiorno

Optimal Chlorination Station Scheduling in an Operating Water DistributionNetwork Using GANetXL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337Roya Peirovi, Alireza Moghaddam, Carol Miller, Asiyeh Moteallemi,Mahdi Rouholamini, and Mohammadamin Moghbeli

Utilization of Microalgae Cultivated in Municipal Wastewater for CO2 Fixationfrom Power Plant Flue Gas and Lipid Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341R. J. Tu, S. F. Han, W. B. Jin, X. Zhou, Q. Wang, H. Y. Chen, F. Z. Zeng, Z. Q. He,and J. Q. Wang

Techno-Economic Assessment of Combined Heat and Power Units Fuelledby Waste Vegetable Oil for Wastewater Treatment Plants: A RealCase Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345Simona Di Fraia, Nicola Massarotti, Laura Vanoli, Riccardo Bentivoglio,and Gianfranco Milani

Eco-LCA of Biological Wastewater Treatments Focusedon Energy Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349Alexander Meneses-Jácome and Adriana Ruiz-Colorado

Optimization of Nutrient Recovery from Synthetic Swine WastewaterUsing Response Surface Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353Ralf Ruffel M. Abarca, Remegio S. Pusta Jr., Rea B. Labad, Jenz Lawrence A. Andit,Claudine M. Rejas, and Mark Daniel G. De Luna

Enzymatic Pretreatment of Chicken Manure for Improved Biogas Yield . . . . . . . 357Seyedmehdi Emadian, Murat Kuzulcan, Mehmet Ali Küçüker, Burak Demirel,and Turgut Tüzün Onay

Integration of Liquid–Liquid Membrane Contactors and Electrodialysisfor Ammonia Recovery from Urban Wastewaters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359X. Vecino, M. Reig, B. Bhushan, J. López, O. Gibert, C. Valderrama,and J. L. Cortina

Remediation of Water Contaminated by Pb(II) Using Virgin Coniferous WoodBiochar as Adsorbent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363Agostina Chiavola, Simone Marzeddu, and Maria Rosaria Boni

A Simplified Model to Simulate a Bioaugmented Anaerobic Digestionof Lignocellulosic Biomass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367Alberto Ferraro, Giulia Massini, Valentina Mazzurco Miritana, Antonella Signorini,Marco Race, and Massimiliano Fabbricino

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Dissolved Oxygen Perturbations: A New Strategy to Enhance the Removalof Organic Micropollutants in Activated Sludge Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371Camilla Di Marcantonio, Amrita Bains, Agostina Chiavola, Naresh Singhal,and Maria Rosaria Boni

PFOA and PFOS Removal Processes in Activated Sludge Reactorat Laboratory Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375Agostina Chiavola, Camilla Di Marcantonio, Maria Rosaria Boni, Stefano Biagioli,Alessandro Frugis, and Giancarlo Cecchini

Selectrodialysis and Ion-Exchange Resins as Integration Processes for Copperand Zinc Recovery from Metallurgical Streams Containing Arsenic . . . . . . . . . . . 379M. Reig, X. Vecino, M. Hermassi, J. López, C. Valderrama, O. Gibert,and J. L. Cortina

Microalgae Cultivation for Pretreatment of Pharmaceutical WastewaterAssociated with Microbial Fuel Cell and Biomass Feed Stock Production . . . . . . . 383Jagdeep Kumar Nayak and Uttam Kumar Ghosh

Embryotoxicity and Molecular Alterations of Fluoxetine and Norfluoxetinein Early Zebrafish Larvae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389Pedro Rodrigues, V. Cunha, M. Ferreira, and Laura Guimarães

Biological Treatment of Municipal Wastewater Using Green Microalgaeand Activated Sludge as Combined Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393Ghulam Mujtaba, Muhammad Rizwan, and Kisay Lee

Fouling Morphologies on Ion-Exchange Membranes in Reverse Electrodialysiswith Effluent from Sewage Treatment Plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397Hanki Kim, Won-Sik Kim, Joo-Youn Nam, Ji-Yeon Choi, Kyo-sik Hwang,Yong Seog, and Nam-Jo Jeong

Co-composting Biosolids and Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Wasteor Carbonized Rice Hull and Trichoderma harzianum Augmented Inoculum . . . . 401Analiza Palenzuela Rollon, Enrico Luis Coquico, Fredie More Pablo,and Angelene Paradero

Production of Bioenergy and Biochemicals from Organic Solid Waste: Influenceof the Pretreatment Operating Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405A. Conte, A. Cesaro, H. Carrère, E. Trably, F. Paillet,and Vincenzo Belgiorno

Sulfate Ion Removal from Reverse Osmosis Concentrate Using Electrodialysisand Nano-Filtration in Combination with Ettringite Precipitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407Yongxun Jin, Kangwoo Cho, Chong Min Chung, and Seokwon Hong

Increasing Sustainability on the Metallurgical Industry by Integrationof Membrane NF Processes: Acid Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411J. López, M. Reig, X. Vecino, C. Valderrama, O. Gibert, and J. L. Cortina

Energy Saving Technologies and Future Clean Energy SolutionsUnder Water Constraints

Overview of the Water Requirements for Energy Production in Africa . . . . . . . . 417Rocio Gonzalez and Nicolae Scarlat

Evaluation of Water–Energy Nexus in Sakarya River Basin, Turkey . . . . . . . . . . 421Zeynep Özcan, Merih Aydınalp Köksal, and Emre Alp

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Water-Energy Nexus in Shallow Geothermal Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425Alessandro Casasso and Rajandrea Sethi

Singular Applications of Capacitive Deionization: Reduction of the BrineVolume from Brackish Water Reverse Osmosis Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429Julio J. Lado, Cleis Santos, Enrique García Quismondo, Marc A. Anderson,Belén Gutiérrez, Fernando Huertas, Antonio Ordóñez, and Ángel de Miguel

An Unprecedented Thousandfold Enhancement of Antimicrobial Activityof Metal Ions by Selective Anion Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433Jakka Ravindran Swathy, Ligy Philip, and Thalappil Pradeep

Harnessing Water Chemistry to Address Complex Water Challengesfor a Thirsty World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437Haizhou Liu

Photo(cata)lytic Membrane Bioreactors for Bacterial Disinfectionand Antifouling Enhancement in Advanced Wastewater Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . 439Xiaolei Zhang and Kwang-Ho Choo

Water Networks as Flexible Loads to Power Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443Mahdi Rouholamini, Carol Miller, Caisheng Wang, Mohsen Mohammadian,and Mohammadamin Moghbeli

Preparation of PES/GO/APTES-SiO2 Mixed Matrix Membranefor the Treatment of Oily Wastewater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447Maryam B. Alkindy, Munirasu Selvaraj, Fawzi Banat, and Shadi Wajih Hasan

Ayun Mousa Springs: Integrated Hydrological, Environmentaland Geophysical Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451Ahmed M. H. Shaban, Bassem S. Nabawy, Ali Abbas, and Mohamed M. Kassab

Modelling Demand and Response in WWTPs: Extension of BSM1with Aeration Tank Settling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457Matteo Giberti, Recep Kaan Dereli, Damian Flynn, and Eoin Casey

Miscanthus as Energy Crop and Means of Mitigating Flood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461Jason Kam, Daniel Traynor, John C. Clifton-Brown, Sarah J. Purdy,and Jon P. McCalmont

Technical-Economic Comparison of Chemical Precipitation and Ion ExchangeProcesses for the Removal of Phosphorus from Wastewater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463Chiavola Agostina, Bongirolami Simona, and Di Francesco Giorgia

Implementation and Best Practices

Advancements of Electrically Enhanced Membrane Bioreactor (eMBR)for Wastewater Treatment via Coupling with Novel Inorganic and PolymericMixed Matrix Membranes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469Shadi Wajih Hasan

Cost-Effective Removal of COD in the Pre-treatment of Wastewaterfrom Paper Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473Boguniewicz-Zablocka Joanna, Klosok-Bazan Iwona, Vincenzo Naddeo,and Mozejko Clara

Sensors for Water Purification Using the Example of Wastewater TreatmentPlant Gabrovo, Bulgaria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477S. Kartunov and B. Kosev

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Design an Integration Platform Between Water Energy Nexus and BusinessModel Applied for Sustainable Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481Heba Ahmed Mosalam and Mohamed El-Barad

New Tools and Approaches for Soil and Water Bioengineeringin the Mediterranean to Enhance Water Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485George N. Zaimes, Guillermo Tardio, Valasia Iakovoglou, Martin Gimenez,Jose Luis Garcia-Rodriguez, and Paola Sangalli

Multi-Criteria Decision Making for the Selection of Best Practice SeawaterDesalination Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489Dunia AbdulBaki, Fatima Mansour, Ali Yassine, Mahmoud Al-Hindi,and Majdi Abou Najm

Modeling Co-treatment of Leachate in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plantsin the Context of Dynamic Loads and Energy Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493Recep Kaan Dereli, Matteo Giberti, Qipeng Liu, and Eoin Casey

Microfiltered Digestate to Fertigation: A Best Practice to Improve Waterand Energy Efficiency in the Context of Biogasdoneright™ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497Paolo Mantovi, Giuseppe Moscatelli, Sergio Piccinini, Stefano Bozzetto,and Lorella Rossi

Optimal Design of Water Distribution Networks Incorporating ReliabilityCriteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501Alireza Moghaddam, Ali Naghi Ziaei, Carol Miller, Zahra Fahim, Hossein Ansari,Fatemeh Attarzadeh, Mahdi Rouholamini, and Mohammadamin Moghbeli

Creating Abundance: Nexus Stress as a Driver for Innovation in Solving Energyand Water Stress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505William Sarni and Joshua Sperling

Using Fast Messy Genetic Algorithm to Optimally SchedulePump Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509Javad Karami, Alireza Moghaddam, Alireza Faridhosseini, Ali Naghi Ziaei,Mahdi Rouholamini, and Mohammadamin Moghbeli

Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor (MABR)—Distributed Treatmentof Wastewater at Low Energy Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513Udi Tirosh and Ronen Shechter

Method to Assess Wastewater Pumps in the Nexus of Functionalityand Energy Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517Michael Pöhler and Paul Uwe Thamsen

Role of Pretreatment in Adsorption of Cobalt, Mercury and Nickelby Native Algae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521Muhammad Rizwan, Alia Naz, Abdullah Khan, Wisal Shah, Ghulam Mujtaba,Mona Syed, Qadeer Ahmed, and Noor Fatima

A Model-Based Approach for Energy Optimization of Real WastewaterPumping Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525Manuel De Chiara, Roberto De Rosa, Anna Giuliani, Salvatore Guadagnuolo,Angelo Leopardi, Luca Pucci, and Dario Torregrossa

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Editors and Speakers

About the Editors

Dr. Vincenzo Naddeo is Associate Professor at Department ofCivil Engineering of the University of Salerno, Italy, where hedrives research activities at the Sanitary Environmental Engi-neering Division (SEED). His research focuses on water/wastewater treatment, characterization and control of environ-mental odours and environmental impact assessment (EIA).He developed advanced biological processes for wastewatertreatment and control of emerging contaminants, novelultrasound-based technological processes for the treatment ofenvironmental matrices (solid, liquid and gaseous) and biotech-nologies for wastewater reuse with simultaneous energy produc-tion. He is Associate Editor of the Euro-Mediterranean Journalfor Environmental Integration (Springer) and Co-founding Chairof the conference series WaterEnergyNEXUS. He presentlyserves on the editorial board of several ISI journals includingScientific Reports (Nature Research), Heliyon (Elsevier), PeerJ(Life, Bio, Environment and Health Sciences), and he is activelyinvolved in a variety of scientific organizations, funding agenciesand European networks. He has (co-)authored over 190 refereedpublications in ISI journals, congress proceedings and bookvolumes, and he holds 5 patents. From January 2018, he is CEOand Co-founder of Sponge s.r.l., a spin-off of the University ofSalerno working in environmental technology field.

Dr. Malini Balakrishnan is Senior Fellow in the Environmentand Waste Management Division at The Energy and ResourcesInstitute (TERI), New Delhi, India. She has been closelyinvolved with different industry sectors working on a range ofissues including resource use particularly energy and water. Thework on enhancing resource efficiency in small and mediumenterprises (SMEs) (covering sectors such as metalfabrication/finishing, chemicals and intermediates’ manufac-ture) in India and select South Asian countries has achievedsignificant savings in energy, water and raw materials. Inaddition, she works on process upgradation in sugar manufac-turing, value-added utilization of waste bagasse ash from sugarfactories and efficient water use and advanced wastewater

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treatment in alcohol distilleries. These efforts are primarilytargeted at evolving affordable solutions to specific localproblems. She has experience in execution and coordination ofpilot demonstrations of technologies such as membrane filtra-tion for upgrading the juice clarification process in the Indiansugar industry, diffusion dialysis, acid retardation andnanofiltration-based recovery systems for waste acid/rinse waterin Indian metal finishing SMEs. She is also leading TERIsefforts in field testing of membrane bioreactors using indige-nously prepared membranes from industrial waste. Thesedemonstrations have provided a deeper understanding of chal-lenges in technology adaptation and possible approaches thatwould encourage the uptake of such technologies. She hasdirected over 20 projects including several European-Commission-supported multi-partner projects where TERIwas the lead partner. She is a nominated expert in Departmentof Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, inWater Technology Initiative programme advisory committeeand in the Chemical Division Council of Bureau of IndianStandards (BIS).

She has a doctorate in biochemical engineering, with mas-ter’s and bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering. She hasover 80 publications in journals and books, over 100 presen-tations in conferences/workshops and 3 patent applications toher credit and is a reviewer for several peer-reviewed interna-tional journals.

Prof. Kwang-Ho Choo received his Ph.D. from SeoulNational University, Korea, in 1996, and since then has beenworking on membrane science and technology for water andwastewater, pursuing innovative solutions for sustainable waterproduction and reuse. His recent research interests includemembrane electro-oxidizers and quorum quenching membranebioreactors. He is currently keen to find synergistic options forwater–energy nexus issues, using membranes in conjunctionwith physicochemical/biological strategies, such as iron oxideadsorption, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis and microbial quo-rum quenching. He has been actively involved in academicsocieties, such as International Water Association, KoreanSociety of Environmental Engineers and Membrane Society ofKorea, and Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers, as anactive board/editorial member.

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About the Invited Speakers

Prof. Marc A. Anderson has been, for more than 24 years,Full Professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison; Professorof Civil and Environmental Engineering, Materials ScienceProgram and Professor and Chair of Environmental Chemistryand Technology Program. Since June 2008, he is acting asadvisor and principal researcher of the Electrochemical Pro-cesses Unit at IMDEA Energy with special emphasis on energystorage for renewable energy systems and applications toenergy-efficient water desalination.

He graduated with distinction (cum laude) from UW-Whitewater and got his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in1974. He has completed research stages at CIEMAT, Spain,besides sabbatical leaves as Visiting Professor at the Institute ofCeramics and Glass CSIC—Madrid, Spain (1988–1989) andUniversité Catholique—Louvain, Belgium (1980–1981). Hiscurrent research interests are: ceramic membranes; microporousceramic materials; colloidal thin-film ceramics; colloid chem-istry; catalysis, gas and liquid ceramic membrane separationprocesses; adsorption in aqueous systems; photocatalysis;photoelectrochemistry; batteries; ultra-capacitors and fuel cells.

At the Electrochemical Unit of IMDEA Energy Institute, heis in charge of the development of nanoporous materials fromsol-gel chemistry as well as collecting the necessary know-howconcerning the transport of both electrons and ions that dictatethe performance of battery and ultracapacitor systems. He isalso developing energy-efficient materials and devices andnovel methods of regeneration for water desalination processesbased on nanostructured materials applied to capacitive deion-ization (CD) or electrosorption. In his career in academia, hisresearch projects have been funded by National ScienceFoundation, Environmental Protection Agency, Sea Grant,NASA, Department of Energy, Department of Defence and theOffice of Naval Research. Private funding has come from bothlarge corporations such as Air Products, Kimberly Clark andRayOVac and smaller companies. Currently, he has projectsthat include support from Annheuser Bush, Gusmer Industries,Cardinal Glass, Regal Ware and WCR.

He has published around 180 papers in peer-reviewed jour-nals, with a historical Hirsch index of 48, and is author of 27patents. He has presented more than 100 communications innational and international conferences, about 40 of them beinginvited talks or keynotes. He has been honoured with the ByronBird “Best Paper in Engineering Award” by UW-Madison;Fulbright Fellow; Alumni of the Year by UW-Whitewater;Outstanding Paper Award by AICHE; Phoebe Apperson HearstDistinguished Lecturer by UC Berkeley.

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Prof. Damià Barceló born in Menàrguens (Lleida) in 1954,obtained a B.Sc. in chemistry from the University of Barcelona(UB) in 1977 and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from thesame university in 1984. He is currently working as a researchprofessor and deputy director of the Institute of EnvironmentalDiagnosis and Water Studies (IDAEA) in Barcelona, which isrun by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He wasappointed Director of the Catalan Institute for Water Research(ICRA) in Girona in 2008. During 2010 and 2011, he was avisiting professor at the King Saud University, Riyadh,Saudi Arabia.

His research career has been focused on the area of waterquality, particularly in the development of methods for con-trolling organic pollution by the so-called emerging pollutants(polar pesticides, surfactants, detergents, endocrine disruptorsand pharmaceutical products) in waste and natural water.

Since 2010, he is listed among the most internationally citedscientists (ISI highly cited), by the number and the exceptionalquality of his publications. According to Scopus, he has theHirsch index of 104 and total number of citations over 50,000.According to Google Scholar, his h-index is 132 and the totalnumber of citations is almost 80,000.

Since the 1990s, he has been editor of various journals(TRAC, Talanta, ABC, Environment International) and bookseries (Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry and The Hand-book of Environmental Chemistry). Since 2012, he isCo-Editor-in-chief of the Science of the Total Environment. In2007, he received the King James I Prize for EnvironmentalProtection, Spain, in 2012 the Prince Sultan Bin AbdulazizInternational Prize for Water of Saudi Arabia, and in 2012 theRecipharm International Environmental Prize, from a Swedishcompany that is a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer inEurope. In 2011, he was appointed as Chairman of the Sci-entific and Technical Board (STB) in the frame of the EuropeanUnion-Joint Programming Initiative on “Water Challenges fora Changing World”. In 2014, he was awarded Doctor HonorisCausa by the University of Ioannina, Greece. As of March2018, he has been supervisor of 53 PhDs, short and continuouseducation courses in universities from Spain, South Korea,Brazil, Greece, Saudi Arabia and among others, at PITTCON,SETAC and ExTech international conferences.

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Dr. Shadi Wajih Hasan is working atDepartment ofChemicaland Environmental Engineering at Khalifa University of Scienceand Technology, AbuDhabi. He holds B.Sc.,M.A.Sc. and Ph.D.in chemical, mechanical and environmental engineering,respectively. His field of expertise includes water purification,wastewater treatment and reuse, water desalination and nan-otechnology. He has been leading several projects in waterdesalination using forward osmosis, reverse osmosis, membranedistillation and capacitive deionization technologies in AbuDhabi, and has also led a wastewater treatment project withMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA.Throughout his academic career, he has been recognized as anexcellent designer (first to design the novel submerged mem-brane electro-bioreactor for municipal wastewater treatment at apilot scale in Montreal, Canada) and has obtained a number ofprestigious awards including FQRNT. He has authored andco-authored over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals such asDesalination, Scientific Reports Nature, Bioresource Technol-ogy and RSC Advances; and conference proceedings includingIWA, IDW, EREM and WEFTEC; and generated significantresearch interest abroad in the USA and overseas. His researchhas significant impacts and led to several funding opportunitiesboth internally and externally. He is an active reviewer formore than 30 scientific journals and has supervised more than25 M.Sc. and Ph.D. students and research fellows.

Prof. Arun Kansal is Dean (research and relationships) andHead of Department of Regional Water Studies at TERI Schoolof Advanced Studies, India. He received his Ph.D. in envi-ronmental engineering from Indian Institute of Technology,Delhi, after completing his M.Tech. and B.Tech. in civilengineering. He has over 20 years of research/consultancy/teaching experience in the areas of water resource manage-ment, waste management with a focus on resource recoveryand recycling, urban environment and energy–environment–climate linkages. He is a recipient of Best Teacher Award fromGGS Indraprastha University, India; Best Research PaperAward from Indian Water Works Association, and has receivedthe Roll of Honour by TERI. In his academic career, he hasbeen a visiting professor (as ICCR Chair Professor fromGovernment of India) to Freie University, Berlin, Germany,during 2010–2011, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow atthe University of Birmingham, UK (2011–2014), a visitingprofessor at the University of Derby in Natural Sciences(2015–2018) and Key Technology Partner Visiting Fellow atthe University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. Healso served as a lead author for IPCC 5th AssessmentReport WGIII.

He has also coordinated an e-learning programme at TERISchool of Advanced Studies on Sustainable DevelopmentPractices in Public Policy for mid-career professionals. Theprogramme was under the aegis of UNU-IAS, Japan, and was

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in collaboration with Tongji University, China; UniversitiSains Malaysia; University of South Pacific, Fiji; and AIT,Thailand. He also served as a core team member of the projectfor development of Alternative University Appraisal for Edu-cation on Sustainable Development led by Hokkaido Univer-sity, Japan, along with Yonsei University, Republic ofKorea; AIT, Thailand; and Universiti Sains Malaysia. He alsodeveloped two full courses (e-content generation) for post-graduate students in environmental science, which was fundedby MHRD, Government of India. He has served as a memberof expert committee constituted by Ministry of Environment,Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government ofIndia, for review of “common effluent treatment scheme”. Hehas also served as a member of project review committeeconstituted by MoEF&CC for the project entitled “Environ-mental friendly technology in the highly polluting small-scaleglass industry at Firozabad” and has been the expert memberfor evaluating Ford Foundation fellowship applications.

His research and consultancy experience is evident from thelist of peer-reviewed publications and success in winninggrants from Government of India, multilateral and bilateralorganizations and industrially funded research and consul-tancy. Recently, he has successfully completed three researchprojects as Principal Investigator in the area of metabolismapproach for water planning of megacities, funded by EnelFoundation; Understanding and quantifying water–energynexus for low-carbon development in Asian cities, funded byAsia-Pacific Network in collaboration with HiroshimaUniversity, Japan, and AIT, Thailand; and strengthening waterand sanitation in urban settings, funded by USAID.

Prof. Gregory Korshin has been working at the University ofWashington since 1991. He has also held invited appointmentsat the University of Paris VII Diderot, Australian Water QualityCentre and University of South Australia in Adelaide,University of Catania in Italy and Peking University, China. Heis an editor and a member of the editorial board of WaterResearch, which is one of the highest-ranked journals in thearea of water treatment. His research interests include charac-terization of natural organic matter (NOM), disinfection andformation of disinfection by-products, online methods tomonitor drinking water quality, electrochemical processes inenvironmental systems, environmental chemistry of heavymetals, advanced oxidation processes and degradation of trace-level organic contaminants in wastewater. He has published>160 refereed publications, most of them in leading journalssuch as Water Research and Environmental Science andTechnology. He has participated in numerous projects fundedby Water Research Foundation, Water ReUse Foundation,National Science Foundation, U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency and other organizations.

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Dr. Changha Lee obtained both B.S. and Ph.D. in chemicalengineering (environmental engineering major) at SeoulNational University in 2001 and 2007, respectively. During hisPh.D. studies, he worked as a visiting scientist at Swiss FederalInstitute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG) from2005 to 2006. After graduation, he worked as a postdoctoralfellow at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engi-neering, University of California, Berkeley, from 2007 to 2009.Then he joined the Faculty of Urban and EnvironmentalEngineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Tech-nology (UNIST). He is interested in various subjects related towater chemistry and chemical processes for water andwastewater treatment. He has published 88 papers in interna-tional peer-reviewed journals to date.

Dr. Raúl Muñoz is Associate Professor at the Department ofChemical Engineering and Environmental Technology,University of Valladolid, Spain. He holds a Ph.D. in environ-mental biotechnology from Lund University (2005). His mainfields of expertise are biological gas treatment, biogasupgrading and wastewater treatment in algal–bacterial photo-bioreactors. Over the last 10 years, he has published more than164 ISI papers (h-index = 40), 30 chapters, more of 115International Conference proceedings (72 oral platforms + 46posters) + 14 invited keynotes/plenary lectures and supervised14 Ph.D. theses and 22 master theses.

Dr. Sebastià Puig is a senior lecturer at the Laboratory ofChemical and Environmental Engineering (LEQUIA),University of Girona (UdG), Spain.

His main research interests are: bioelectrochemical systems(BES) for (1) biofuels and value-added production from wastes(liquid and gas phases); (2) bioenergy production duringwastewater treatment, and (3) bioremediation of contaminatedwaters; bio-leading edge technologies for the treatment andnutrient (nitrogen, phosphorus, magnesium and potassium)recovery (struvite) of wastewaters.

He has participated in 20 research projects and R&D con-tracts, and has supervised 2 postdoctoral researchers, 5 doctoraltheses and 8 master theses. As a result of his outstanding sci-entific career, he received the accreditation as a tenure-tracklecturer and the accreditation of having merits in his researchfrom the Quality Assurance Agency for the University Systemin Catalonia, Spain. He has published 59 peer-reviewed papersin international journals (including top A1 journals)—24 ascorresponding author, h-index 21–64 congress publicationsand two European patents on METs. In 2014, he received theaward “Young talented researcher in Sustainable Water Man-agement” from Fundación Botin, Spain.

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Prof. Mohammad Taherzadeh is Professor in bioprocesstechnology since 2004 at University of Borås in Sweden andDirector of Research School at Swedish Centre for ResourceRecovery (www.scrr.se). He has Ph.D. in bioscience fromSweden, and M.Sc. and B.Sc. in chemical engineering fromIran. He is developing processes to convert wastes and resid-uals to value-added products such as ethanol, biogas, humanfood, animal feed and biopolymers by fermentation. He haspublished more than 220 papers in scientific peer-reviewedjournals, 18 chapters, 5 patents and 3 books. More informationabout him is available at www.taherzadeh.se.

Prof. Stefan Uhlenbrook is Coordinator of the UN WorldWater Assessment Programme (WWAP, UNESCO pro-gramme) and Director of the Programme Office on GlobalWater Assessment in Perugia, Italy, since November 2015.Before that he worked at UNESCO-IHE as Professor ofhydrology (since 2005), Deputy Director (Vice-Rector) forAcademic and Student Affairs (2000–2014) and Director a.i.(Acting Rector; 2014–2015). He did his Ph.D. (1999) andhabilitation (2003) at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Heis also a professor for experimental hydrology at DelftUniversity of Technology, The Netherlands (since 2009).

His main expertise includes water assessments, hydrologicalprocess research, river basin modelling and water resourcesmanagement. Many of his research and development projectshave demonstrated the impact of global changes on water cycledynamics in different hydroclimate regions in Africa and Asia.He is keen on translating science-based water knowledge toeffective policies and strategies that contribute to environ-mental, economic and societal sustainability. Therefore, he isinvolved in supporting Member States in achieving the Sus-tainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 6 onWater and Sanitation.

Prof. Kala Vairavamoorthy is an internationally recognizedwater resource management expert, with particular expertise inurban water issues. He combines a strong engineering back-ground with practical international experience. He has pub-lished extensively and has a strong international profileworking closely with the World Bank, UN-Habitat, UNESCO,GWP, SIWI and the EU. This includes leading several urbanwater management projects for the World Bank, AfricanDevelopment Bank, Asian Development Bank and DFID.

Prior to joining the International Water Association(IWA) as its Executive Director, he was the Deputy DirectorGeneral for Research at the International Water ManagementInstitute (IWMI). In this position, he was responsible forresearch strategy and science quality, and driving research toaddress global development challenges for water security andnatural resource management. This included leading the

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identification of innovative research areas, ensuring relevanceof thematic content for the development agenda that con-tributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals,global climate agenda and other regional and national imper-atives.

He was Founding Dean of the Patel College of GlobalSustainability and a tenured professor in the Department ofCivil and Environmental Engineering, University of SouthFlorida, USA. Prior to that, he was Full Professor and Chair ofWater Engineering at the University of Birmingham, UK, andProfessor and Head of Core of Sustainable Urban WaterInfrastructure Systems at UNESCO-IHE, Netherlands. He stillholds professorial appointments at the University of SouthFlorida and UNESCO-IHE.

He has been a member of many International ScientificCommittees. Currently, he serves on the Stockholm’s WorldWater Week’s Scientific Program Committee and the GlobalWater Partnership’s Technical Committee. He was Co-chair ofIWA’s Cities of the Future Program and also a member ofSingapore International Water Week’s Program Committee. Hehas a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in environmental engineering fromImperial College, University of London, UK, and a B.Sc.(Hons) from King’s College, London.

Dr. Jannis Wenk studied environmental engineering at theTechnical University Berlin, Germany, including a one-yearstay at POSTECH, Korea, followed by Ph.D. studies atEAWAG and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, from where hegraduated in 2012. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoralfellow at UC Berkeley, USA. He joined the Department ofChemical Engineering at the University of Bath as a lecturer(assistant professor) in January 2015.

His research has been in the areas of aquatic oxidationprocesses, transformation pathways of trace organic watercontaminants, chemistry of humic substances and environmen-tal photochemistry. More recently, he has also becomeinterested on the fate of pathogens during water treatmentand nature-oriented, low-energy water treatment systems.

At the University of Bath and the recently formed WaterInnovation and Research Centre (WIRC), he would like toutilize his knowledge in aquatic oxidation chemistry and buildup his initial research programme on oxidation and advancedoxidation processes for water treatment. Key aspects will be thecombination of oxidative processes with other treatmentprocesses, integration of oxidative processes into existingwater treatment schemes and process design for oxidativewaste water treatment applications for both chemical contam-inant and pathogen removal. He is also interested in under-standing and improving the performance of natural watertreatment systems such as constructed wetlands, reed beds andriverbanks.

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