Water and Desalination Research Journal (WDRJ)

Editors

Dr. Andreas N. Angelakis, National Agricultural Research Foundation, Institute of Iraklion, Iraklion, Greece.

Research Interests: Water resources; Environmental engineering; Wastewater treatment; Aquatic wastewater management systems; Water and wastewater management for small and decentralized systems; Water and wastewater quality; Treated wastewater renovation and reuse; and Water and wastewater technologies in ancient civilizations.


Veera Gnaneswar Gude, Assistant Professor, Civil and Enviromental Engineering Department, Mississippi State University, USA.

Research Interests: Novel desalination and biofuel process technologies; Energy-water nexus and energy-environment nexus; Clean and combined energy-water production.

Associate Editors

Ivanildo Hespanhol, Professor, Polytechnic School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Research Interests: Conservation and reuse of water; Rainwater utilization; Membranes system design; Ultrafiltration membranes production; Water microfiltration; Industrial effluent treatment; Slow sand filters.




José Ignacio Calvo, Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Universidad de Valladolid, Palencia, Spain.

Research Interests: Water and wastewater treatment, Water purification, Membrane Separation, Ultrafiltration, Membrane technology, Membrane characterization.




Shadi W. Hasan, Assistant Professor, Water and Environmental Engineering, Masdar Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Research Interests: water purification, wastewater treatment and reuse, nanotechnology, water desalination using forward osmosis, reverse osmosis and capacitive deionization technologies.




Rajeev Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Research Interests: Environmental science, wastewater purification, material synthesis and characterization, photocatalysis, adsorption, organic and inorganic pollutants removal, kinetics, thermodynamic, isotherms.


S. Vasudevan, Senior Principal Scientist & Professor (AcSIR), Electroinorganic Chemicals Division, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Tamilnadu, India.

Research Interests: chemical and electrochemical water treatment, electrochemical and photo-electrochemical generation of hydrogen, synthesis of electro-inorganic chemicals, electrochemical waste management, electro-catalysis, magnesium batteries.

Editorial Board Members

Mohamed Khayet, Professor and Chair Department of Applied Physics, University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Research Interests: Membrane Science and Technology; Theoretical models and Monte Carlo Simulation; Polymers and biopolymers; Nano-fibers; Nanofluids, Separation Processes and Water Treatment; Solar Desalination; Heat Exchangers; Process optimization; Artificial Neural Network.




Mohammad Hadi Dehghani, Professor, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, I.R.Iran

Research Interests: Wastewater treatment, Adsorption, Solid waste management, Water pollution,Water Quality and Health.




Bidyut Saha, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Burdwan University, WB, India.
Research Interests: Synthetic application of micellar catalysis, Bioremediation of toxic metals, Inorganic reaction mechanism, Bioinorganic chemistry.






Woei-jye Lau, Senior Lecturer, Advanced Membrane Technology Research Centre (AMTEC), Malaysia University of Technology, Johor, Malaysia.

Research Interests: Nanofiltration, ultrafiltration, thin film composite membrane, industrial effluent, water and wastewater treatment.




Hussein Znad, Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Bentley, Australia.

Research Interests: Wastewater treatment, Solar photo-catalyst development, Algae photo-bioreactors development, Photo-catalytic reactors design, Biofilteration, VOC biodegradation, Bioreactor design, modeling, and scale up: slurry airlift bioreactors, slurry bubble columns, stirred fermenters. Chemical & biochemical reaction engineering, Heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis.




Hafiz Zahid Shafi, Assistant Professor, Center of Research Excellence in Desalination, research Institute of KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Research Interests: Surface Modification by thin film deposition, membranes (UF, NF and RO) synthesis and performance evaluation, membranes-fouling characterization, mitigation and control, membranes-based desalination processes, concentrate management technologies.




Xujie Lu, Professor, School of tropical eco-environment protection, Hainan tropical Ocean University, Sanya city,China.

Research Interests: Wastewater treatment and reuse, Membrane technology, Disposal of residual sludge and solid wastes, Catalysts, Treatment of leachate.




Jamel Orfi, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

Research Interests: Desalination; Heat and mass transfer, Evaporation and condensation; Power systems.




Raed Bashitialshaaer, Assistant Professor, Lund University Faculty of Engineering, Water Resources Engineering & Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Sweden.

Research Interests: Fresh water supply; Water treatment and energy innovations; Wastewater management and reuse; Sustainable and safe use of non-conventional waters; Environmental impact and assessment.




Mashallah Rezakazemi, Assistant Professor, Water & Energy Solutions Technology (WEST) Center, Faculty of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran.

Research Interests: Basic and Advanced Membrane Separation Processes; Carbon Capture Technologies (CCS); Desalination; Wastewater treatment.