Wastewater Treatment Systems based on Vascular Plants. Renewed Promise of a Green Technology

Table of Contents

1. Plants (botanical species) as facilitators of wastewater treatment: an introduction
2. History of the development of plant-based wastewater treatment systems
3. Factors which influence plant-based wastewater treatment: the mechanism of the plants' purifying action
4. 'Tank' or 'channel' systems based on free-floating aquatic macrophytes
5. 'Constructed' or artificial wetlands
6. Hydroponics and systems based on 'nutrient films'
7. Vascular plants verses algae in wastewater treatment
8. The new bioreactor SHEFROL
9. Looking back, looking forward

Authors

Tabassum Abbasi Assistant Professor, Centre for Pollution Control and Environmental Engineering, Pondicherry University, Chinnakalapet, Puducherry, India. Tabassum Abbasi is Assistant Professor at Pondicherry University, India. She received her Masters from the University of Surrey and her PhD in 2010 from the Anna University of Technology, India, both in Chemical and Environmental Engineering. She also held a concurrent position of Visiting Associate Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA during 2012-2017. Dr. Abbasi was awarded India's Best Young Engineer Award in 2014, has published over 100 papers with 3500+ citations and authored 10 books. S. A. Abbasi Professor, Centre for Pollution Control and Environmental Engineering, Pondicherry University, Chinnakalapet, Puducherry, India. S. A. Abbasi has been a full university professor since 1987 after being Head-in-charge of the Water Quality & Environment Division at the Centre for Water Resources, Kozhikode, during 1979-87. He was a Visiting-cum-adjunct Professor at California State University during 1984-1987, and has been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Minnesota, Florida, Las Vegas, California-Berkeley, Malaya and Al-Ahsa. With 43 books, over 300 papers in indexed journals, 8 patents and 9000+ citations, Prof Abbasi is among the world's foremost environmental experts. Among numerous coveted honours and awards received by him are the National Design Award in Environmental Engineering, the National Hydrology Award, the International Desalination Association's prize, and fellowships of the National Academy of Sciences and the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has been Member, Board of Governors, IIT Roorkee, Member of the BHU Court, and has been Chairman/Member of numerous high-level committees of MNES, DST, MoWR, AlCTE, and the UGC.