Black Liquor Waste Management in the Pulp and Paper Industry

Prof. Dr. Suresh Sundaramurthy is a faculty and head of Department, Chemical Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MA-NIT) Bhopal, India. He has received Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Dr. Suresh was the recipient of Post-Doctoral Fellow awarded by IUSSTF, Govt. of India, and that time, he was associated at the City University of New York, USA. He was also the recipient of Visiting Faculty and Researcher awarded by Govt. of India. During this award, he was deputed to the Asian Institute of Technology Thailand and International Centre for Materials Science (JNCASR), Bengaluru, India. He has published over 150 journal articles in the area of new sorbents and catalysts, reactor design, environmental biotechnology, waste-to-energy, nanoengineered materials, gas separation, sensing of toxic gases, process safety, Decarbonization and Green hydrogen.

Dr. Surendra Pratap Singh is currently working as Department Head (Quality Control and Labs) in Harihar Polyfibers , GRASIM Industries Ltd. Kumarapatnam, Haveri, Karnataka,India.He did M.Sc. (Chemistry),  PG Diploma (Pulp and  Paper Technology) from Forest Research Institute Dehradoon, M.Tech. (Energy Technology) and Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee. His areas of research interests include pulp and paper industry/Rayon grade pulp and fiber process engineering, process design for energy efficiency, hybrid reinforced/filled polymer composites, lignocellulosic reinforced/filled polymer composites, modification and treatment of lignocellulosic fibres and nanocomposites and nanocellulose fibres.

Dr. Anuj Kumar Verma is currently working as a head of Quality and product development in Akemi Minerals, Ahmadabad. He did his B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from NIT Warangal, M.Tech.(Exchange Program) in Pulp & Paper Engineering from IIT Roorkee and Technical University Darmstadt Germany. He did his Ph.D. from MANIT Bhopal. His areas of research interests includes specialty chemical for paper industry, artificial pulp and clay-polymeric coating.

Prof. Dr. Mohamad Jawaid is  currently working as Distinguished Professor at Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, United Arab Emirates University, UAE.  He has been working in composite field since 2008 and has 25 years of experience in teaching, research in the field of composites. His areas of research interests include hybrid reinforced/filled polymer composites, advanced materials: graphene/nanoclay/fire retardant, lignocellulosic reinforced/filled polymer composites, modification and treatment of lignocellulosic fibres and solid wood, nanocomposites and nanocellulose fibres. Forty Ph.D. and 12 Master students graduated under his Supervision in 2014–2020. He has several research grants at university/national/international level on polymer composites and its related research of around RM 6 million (USD 1.5 million).

Prof. Dr. Eldon R. Rene is currently working as an Associate Professor at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands. He obtained his University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) diploma from IHE Delft and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (India). Eldon’s broad research interests are related to the development of biological treatment processes for wastewater and waste-gas treatment, resource recovery, integrated urban water/waste management and the use of artificial intelligence tools for environmental monitoring and environmental process control.