Meet the editors

Dr. Murat Eyvaz is an assistant professor in the Environmental Engineering Department at Gebze Technical University (GTU), Turkey. He received his BSc in Environmental Engineering from Kocaeli University, Turkey, in 2004. He obtained his MSc and PhD in Environmental Engineering in 2013 from the Gebze Institute of Technology (former name of GTU). He completed his post-doctoral research at the National Research Center on

Membrane Technologies in 2015. His research interests are water and wastewater treatment, electrochemical processes, filtration systems/membrane processes, and spectrophotometric and chromatographic analyses. Dr. Eyvaz has co-authored numerous journal articles and conference papers and has taken part in many national projects. He serves as an editor for 40 journals and a reviewer for more than 115 journals indexed in SCI, SCI-E, and other indexes. He has one patent and three patent applications on wastewater treatment systems.

Prof. Ebubekir Yüksel is a faculty member of the Environmental Engineering Department at Gebze Technical University (GTU), Turkey. He received his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from İstanbul Technical University in 1992. He obtained his MSc and PhD from İstanbul Technical University in 1995 and 2001, respectively. His research interests include applications in water and wastewater treatment facilities, electrochemical treatment

process and filtration systems at lab. and pilot scale, watershed management, flood control, deep sea discharges, membrane processes, spectrophotometric analyses, chromatographic analyses, and geographic information systems. Professor Yüksel has co-authored numerous journal articles and conference papers and has taken part in many national projects. He has produced more than 25 peer-reviewed publications in journals indexed in SCI, SCI-E, and other indexes. He has two patents and three patent applications on energy and wastewater treatment systems.

Contents

and Energy Applications

*by Rania H. Taha*

*by Nilce Ortiz*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 35**

**Chapter 4 57**

**Chapter 5 67**

**Chapter 6 89**

Global Water Vapor Estimates from Measurements from Active GPS RO

Recent Developments in *Nanocarbon-Polymer Composites* for Environmental

Synthesis and Characterization of Nanocomplexes by Green Chemistry

Infrared Irradiation, an Excellent, Alternative Green Energy Source

PEG-Mediated Green One Pot Synthesis by Using Click Chemistry

*by Sachin Pandurang Shirame and Raghunath Bhosale*

Green Water Treatment for Pharmaceutical Pollution

Sensors and Passive Infrared and Microwave Sounders

*by Prateek Khare, Ratnesh Kumar Patel and Ravi Shankar*

and Their Applications in Different Fields

*by Joel Martínez and René Miranda*

*by Shu-peng Ho and Liang Peng*
