Industrial Environmental Management

About the Author

Tapas K. Das, PhD, PE, BCEE, is a chemical and environmental engineer; a Fellow member of the American Institute of Engineers; Past Chair of the AIChE’s Environmental Division; former Chair of the Air Pollution Control Committee of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Board of Trustee with the Academy; American Academy Who’s Who in Environmental Engineering from 2002 to the present; former environmental engineer at the Washington Department of Ecology; as an adjunct faculty member, Dr. Das has been teaching several undergraduate and graduate courses in Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering programs at Saint Martin’s University School of Engineering, Washington; formerly assistant professor in the College of Natural Resources and Paper Science and Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point; and recipient of the Professor S. K. Sharma Medal and CHEMCON

Distinguished Speaker Award for 2007 given by the Development Organization for Sustainable Transformation (DOST), Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. Dr. Das holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India, and PhD from Bradford University, Bradford, England. Dr. Das was a postdoctoral fellow at London’s Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine and a visiting scientist at Princeton University. He has wide practical and theoretical experience in various areas, including air toxics and aerosols, industrial wastewater treatment ...