About the Authors
Saeed Al-Muyeed Ahmed
Dr. Tanvir Ahmed received his BSc and MSc Engineering degrees from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2003 and 2005, respectively. He received his PhD degree in 2011 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. He is currently pursuing his teaching profession as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, BUET. His research interest broadly encompasses environmental modeling and health risk assessment of environmental contaminants. He has also been involved in several national projects as a consultant and EIA specialist. Dr. Ahmed received a number of awards in recognition for his excellence in academic achievements and teaching. These include The Prime Minister’s Gold Medal in 1994 for securing the 1st position in Bangladesh in order of merit in the national SSC exam, Malik Akram Hossain Gold Medal in 2003 and Dean’s award for academic excellence as a civil engineering student. He received the Schoettler Fellowship and Martin Fellowship for Sustainability while pursuing his PhD at MIT. He was also awarded the Maseeh Award for excellence in teaching from MIT in 2009 while working as a teaching assistant. He can be reached at
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This text book has been designed to cover the curricula of undergraduate and postgraduate environmental engineering and related courses, that are generally offered by the Civil and Environmental Engineering Departments of the technological universities in Bangladesh. The book is comprised of 12 chapters covering a wide range of topics related to sanitation, wastewater treatment, disposal and water pollution. Chapter 1 gives a brief description on the importance of sanitation, wastewater treatment and safe disposal, with an aim to provide the reader a scope to think about the necessity of sustainable environmental solutions for the country. Chapter 2 describes engineered sanitation technologies in context of Bangladesh. Chapters 3-7 describe municipal wastewater transportation into treatment plants, and different treatment stages for achieving safe disposal criteria. Chapter 8 describes different approaches to provide treatment of industrial wastewater. Chapter 9 includes a brief description on sludge treatment (for safe disposal), generated from wastewater treatment plants. Chapter 10 focuses on lowcost natural treatment technologies, such as ponds and constructed wetlands. Chapter 11 gives a brief description on the factors associated with water pollution. Finally Chapter 12 gives brief information and required guidelines for the construction, operation and maintenance of decentralized wastewater treatment systems.
Environmental Sanitation, Wastewater Treatment and Disposal
Dr. Abdullah Al-Muyeed received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and Master of Science in Civil Engineering (Environmental) from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Dhaka and Ph.D from the University of Tokyo, Japan, as a prestigious Monbusho scholar. His academic experiences cover graduate and post graduate level teaching and research in renowned universities of Bangladesh and abroad since 2002. The author has more than 35 technical papers in National and International Journal and Conference Proceedings. He also worked as Environmental Consultant in different World Bank donated projects. He also worked as honorary editor and reviewer in distinguished journals of international publishers. He worked as Reviewer in the research project funded by University Grant Commission, Bangladesh. He is also a distinguished Specialist on Solid Waste Management of International Training Network (ITN)–BUET. He also authored two text books titled, ‘Solid and Hazardous Waste Management’, and ‘Water and Environmental Engineering’ for undergraduate and graduate students of civil & environmental engineering discipline. As an academician, he served as progressively Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor in different universities. At present, he is working as Technical Adviser-WASH in WaterAid Bangladesh and he can be reached at
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About the Book
2nd Edition
Dr. Tanveer Ferdous Saeed received his B.Sc. degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2004, M.Sc. from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand in 2006, and PhD from Monash University, Australia in 2011. Currently he is pursuing his teaching profession as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Engineering and Technology (AUST). Dr. Saeed is specialized on fate and mathematical modelling of pollutants removal from wastewater. Dr. Saeed published many peer reviewed publications on pollutant removal dynamics in constructed wetland systems. He is also serving as the reviewer of peer reviewed international journals Chemosphere, Ecological Engineering, Water Research, Chemical Engineering Journal and Science of the Total Environment. Dr. Saeed received many academic and research awards. These include AIT fellowship during his MSc studies at AIT; Faculty of Engineering Post Graduate Award, Monash Graduate Scholarship, and Travel Grant Award while pursuing his PhD at Monash University. Dr. Saeed employed wetland systems for the first time in Bangladesh to provide treatment of tannery, textile and municipal wastewaters. In addition, Dr. Saeed is involved in the treatment of polluted surface water bodies of Bangladesh employing floating treatment wetlands. He can be reached at
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Environmental Sanitation, Wastewater Treatment and Disposal 2nd Edition
Tanveer Ferdous Saeed Abdullah Al-Muyeed Tanvir Ahmed
