Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment: Waste Water Treatment of Leather Industry

Angelo Basile, a Chemical Engineer with a Ph.D. in Technical Physics, was a senior Researcher at the ITM-CNR as a responsible for the research related to both ultra-pure hydrogen production and CO2 capture using Pd-based Membrane Reactors. He is a reviewer for 165 int. journals, an editor/author of more than 50 scientific books and 140 chapters on international books on membrane science and technology; with various patens (7 Italian, 2 European, and 1 worldwide). He is a referee of 1more than 150 international scientific journals and a Member of the Editorial Board of more than 20 of them. Basile is also an associate editor of the: Int. J. Hydrogen Energy; Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Eng.; journal Frontiers in Membrane Science and Technology; and co-Editor-in-chief of the Int. J. Membrane Science & Technol.

Alfredo Cassano, a Biologist, is senior Researcher at ITM-CNR since 2000. He has a long experience in the field of membrane science and technology with research expertise including pressure-driven membrane processes, membrane contactors and integrated membrane operations mainly applied to wastewater treatments and agro-food productions.Cassano also prepared 4 special issues on membrane science and technology for 3 international journals (Membranes, Foods and Journal of Membrane Science and Research). He is involved as scientific responsible or main investigator in different national projects with both Italian Ministry of Education, University & Research and private companies and international projects funded by EU. He has been tutoring of 28 Thesis for master and Ph.D. students at ITM-CNR.

Sirshendu De did his B. Tech (1990), M. Tech (1993) and PhD (1997) from Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. His main research interest includes membrane separation, membrane casting and applications, process developments, modeling and design; flow modeling, heat and mass transfer in microchannel, mathematic modeling of different Chemical Engineering processes. He has authored 8 books, 16 patents, 333 publications in journals of repute and handled 45 research projects and transferred 4 technologies for commercialization to six companies. He has guided 25 PhD and 70+ M. Tech students. Prof. De has been awarded several awards, including Institute Chair Professorship, 2020, Abdul Kalam Fellowship for Innovative Research 2017, Innovation Award from Indian Desalination Association 2016, INAE Chair Professorship 2015, Innovation Award by Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers 2015, Lockheed-Martin top 10 innovation 2015, NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award (2013), INAE Silver Jubilee Award (2012), DAE-SRC Young Investigator Award (2012), Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in “Engineering Science by CSIR, Govt of India (2011), Herdillia Award (2010). He is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineers, New Delhi and The National Academy of Sciences, India, Allahabad. He is the founder of the spin-off company M/s, Technoquips Separation Pvt. Ltd.

Sourav Mondal did his PhD from IIT Kharagpur (2015) on mass transport phenomena related to filtration systems. Thereafter he had a post-doctoral stint at the mathematical institute of Oxford University (UK) working on advanced fluid flow problems in engineering. Currently he is the assistant professor at the chemical engineering in IIT Kharagpur. His current research interests are broadly in the domain of fluid dynamics and transport phenomena, related to flow in porous medium, membrane filtration, computational fluid dynamics and mass transport in separation systems. He has authored 50 international peer reviewed journal publications and 3 monographs. He is the recipient of INAE Young Engineers Award in 2021. He was awarded the Oxford University (UK) vice-chancellor innovation award in 2018.