Meet the editors

Editor Dr. Murat Eyvaz is an assistant professor at the Environmental Engineering Department at Gebze Technical University (GTU). He received his BSc degree in Environmental Engineering from Kocaeli University in Turkey in 2004. He completed his MSc and PhD in 2013 at Gebze Institute of Technology (former name of GTU) in Environmental Engineering. He completed his postdoctoral 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. He has coauthored numerous journal articles and conference papers and has taken part in many national projects. He serves as an editor in 45 journals and a reviewer in more than 125 journals indexed in SCI, SCI-E, and other indexes. He has one patent and three patent applications on wastewater treatment systems.

Coeditor Prof. Ebubekir Yüksel is a faculty member at the Environmental Engineering Department in Gebze Technical University. He received his Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 1992. He completed his graduate work (MSc 1995 and PhD 2001) at Istanbul Technical University. His research interests are 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. He has coauthored 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

**Section 1**

*by Hideaki Nakamura*

*and Mahmoud Hafsi*

*by Başak Kiliç Taşeli*

**Section 2**

Processes

**Preface III**

Water Treatment **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 21**

**Chapter 3 39**

**Chapter 4 69**

Wastewater Treatment **81**

**Chapter 5 83**

**Chapter 6 93** The Use of Industrial Waste for the Bioremediation of Water Used in Industrial

**Chapter 7 113** Contamination of Water Resources by Food Dyes and Its Removal Technologies *by Sajjad Hussain, Nadeem Khan, Saima Gul, Sabir Khan and Hammad Khan*

Water Chemical Remediation for Simultaneous Removal of Phosphate Ion

Pollution of Water Sources from Agricultural and Industrial Effluents:

*by Majda Breida, Saad Alami Younssi, Mohamed Ouammou, Mohamed Bouhria* 

Suitability and Assessment of Surface Water for Irrigation Purpose *by Ammar Tiri, Lazhar Belkhiri, Mammeri Asma and Lotfi Mouni*

and Blue-Green Algae From Anthropogenically Eutrophied Pond

Special Attention to NO3ˉ, Cr(VI), and Cu(II)

*by Omar Cléo Neves Pereira and Altair Bertonha*

Modeling Accumulated Evapotranspiration Over Time

Sustainability Assessment of Wastewater Treatment Plants

*by Rosa Hernández-Soto, José A. Hernández, Alba N. Ardila-Arias, Mercedes Salazar-Hernández and María del Carmen Salazar-Hernandeza*
