Bhawani / Bhat / Mohamad Ibrahim Biobased Materials and Their Composites for Oil Spill Treatment

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-981-966049-0
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 207 Seiten

Reihe: Composites Science and Technology

This book provides solid, quantitative descriptions and reliable guidelines, reflecting the maturation and demand of the field and the development of bio-based methods for the treatment of oil spill. This book focuses on the different materials used for the oil spill treatment such as chitosan, carbon, lignin, carbohydrates and other bio-based materials (nanoparticles, membranes, aerogels, etc.). The coverage of book will highlight the most exciting applications in the field of oil spill treatment. This book is of interest to researchers working in the fields of material science of oil spill treatment, environmental chemistry, separation science, green and sustainable extraction techniques and bio-wastes.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhawani, Showkat Ahmad

Bhat, Aamir Hussain

Mohamad Ibrahim, Mohamad Nasir

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction to oil spill treatment.- 2. An Overview of Mechanized Solutions for Oil Spill Treatment.- 3. Impacts of Oil Spill on Geotechnical Properties of Soil.- 4. Biobased nanomaterials A green remedy for oil spill treatment.- 5. Biodegradable Waste Sorbents for Oil Spill Treatment.- 6. Biomass sorbents for oil spill treatment.- 7. Carbon based materials for Oil spill treatment.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Showkat Ahmad Bhawani is presently working as an associate professor at the  Faculty of Resource Science and Technology, Universiti  Malaysia Sarawak. In addition to this, he has a teaching experience of two years from King AbdulAziz University—North Jeddah and a postdoctoral experience of Three years from the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. He received his M.Sc. in Analytical Chemistry and Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He is working on the synthesis of molecular Imprinting polymers for the removal/extraction of dyes, fungicides and various natural products from environmental and biological samples. He is involved in the analysis of samples like: surfactants, amino acids, drugs, vitamins, sugars and metal ions. He has published 11 books and 27 book chapters and he has published more than 60 papers in various journals.

Dr. Aamir Hussain Bhat is a faculty member at University of Technology and Applied Sciences, College of Applied Sciences and Pharmacy,   Muscat, Oman. He was born on June 4, 1980, in Baramulla, India. He received his highest degree of Doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, which ranks among the prestigious institutes of India. He has four years of postdoctoral experience at Universiti Sains Malaysia and around 11 years of teaching experience in the capacity of Assistant Professor in Chemistry. Dr. Aamir was awarded the Prime Ministerial Postdoctoral fellowship by the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia, for his excellence in the field of research. Dr. Aamir has published a book entitled Nanomaterials for Healthcare, Energy and Environment with Springer Nature Singapore. He has published 70 full-length research papers in highly reputed international scientific journals with a citation of more than 5500 and 26 Book chapters with highly reputed publishers.

Mohamad Nasir Mohamad Ibrahim obtained his B.Sc. (1994), M.Sc. (1997), and Ph.D. (1999) from Missouri S&T (formerly known as the University of Missouri-Rolla, USA). He is currently a professor at the School of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He had published more than 200 journal articles, 17 book chapters, and 8 academic books throughout his twenty-five-year career in USM. Currently, his Scopus h-index is 48, and he has been granted ten patents for his R&D products/processes where five of which are at an international level. More than thirty research grants (2 international grants and 6 industry grants) were secured and utilized to support his team’s research activities. He has received fourteen international awards for his research outputs. He had supervised more than 30 graduate students. At the moment he is the pioneer on MFCs research topic in the School of Chemical Sciences, USM. He enjoys sharing his industrial experience, where he spent two and half years working as an R&D Manager at NSE Resources Corporation Sdn Bhd., in his classes.