Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science

Part 1: Production, Assessment and Optimization of Biosurfactants for Bioremediation 1. Isolation, screening, and characterization of biosurfactant-producing microorganism that can biodegrade heavily polluted soil 2. Mass production of active metabolites/biosurfactants from microorganisms isolated from polluted, agricultural, or uncultured soil, and their utilization for eco-restoration of polluted soil 3. Assessing the presence of hydrocarbon-biodegrading bacteria using multiplex primers/Geochip 4. Optimization, modelling, prediction, and kinetics of key factors supporting the biodegradation process after treatment with biosurfactants 5. Environmental impact assessment of polluted soil using biosurfactants 6. Validation of eco-restored soil after treatment with biosurfactants

Part 2: Remediation and Degradation Applications 7. Bioremediation of Polythenes and Plastics using biosurfactants 8. Application of biosurfactants for treatment of effluent waste, polluted water, wastewater and sewage sludge 9. Application of biosurfactants and their combination with nanomaterials in the purification of polluted and contaminated water 10. Application of biosurfactants for biosorption in heavily contaminated soil and water 11. Eco-restoration and Nanobioremediation of polluted soil using nanomaterials synthesized from biosurfactant 12. Relevance of CRISPR Genetic Engineering for the enhancement of Xenobiotic Degradation and ecorestoration potential of heavily polluted soil 13. Application of biosurfactants as a non-invasive stimulant to enhance the degradation activities of the indigenous hydrocarbon degraders in soil 14. Biotransformation of polluted soil when treated with biosurfactants: petroleum hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and pesticides 15. Application of biosurfactants in the extraction of bitumen from tar sands

Inamuddin is an assistant professor at the Department of Applied Chemistry, Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. He has extensive research experience in multidisciplinary fields of analytical chemistry, materials chemistry, electrochemistry, renewable energy, and environmental science. He has worked on different research projects funded by various government agencies and universities and is the recipient of awards, including the Fast-Track Young Scientist Award and the Young Researcher of the Year Award 2020 of the university. He has published about 189 research articles in various international scientific journals, 18 book chapters, and 144 edited books with multiple well-known publishers. His current research interests include ion exchange materials, a sensor for heavy metal ions, biofuel cells, supercapacitors, and bending actuators. Dr Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji is presently a faculty member and lecturer at the Microbiology Department, Faculty of Sciences, Edo State University Uzairue (EDSU), Edo State, Nigeria. He was formally the Acting Director of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer, the Head of department of Microbiology, Sub Dean for Faculty of Science and currently the Chairman Grant Committee and the Ag Dean for Faculty of Science, at EDSU. He is a Visiting Professor and the Executive Director for the Center of Biotechnology, Precious Cornerstone University, Ibadan, University. He has won several scientific awards and grants from renowned academic bodies like Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) India, Department of Biotechnology (DBT) India, The World Academy of Science (TWAS) Italy, Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NPF) Netherlands, The Agency for International Development Cooperation; Israel, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK among many others. Dr Adetunji was ranked among the top 20th position among 500 prolific authors in Nigeria between 2019 till date by SciVal/SCOPUS. He was recently appointed as the President and Chairman Governing Council of the Nigerian Bioinformatics and Genomics Network Society. He was recently appointed as the Director for International Affiliation and Training Centre for Environmental and Public Health, Research and Development, Zaria. He is an editorial board member of many international journals and serves as a reviewer to many double-blind peer review journals like Elsevier etc. Dr Adetunji is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, Biotechnology Society of Nigeria, and Nigerian Society for Microbiology, and he is presently the General/Executive Secretary of Nigerian Young Academy. He is the president and founder of the Nigerian Post-Harvest and Food Biotechnology Society.