Arup K. Sengupta

Arup K. SenGupta
Professor and Chairman - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Fritz Engineering Laboratory
Lehigh University
13 East Packer Avenue
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
Phone: (610) 758-3534
Email: aks0@lehigh.edu

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Honors and Awards:(complete list)

Awarded University Gold Medal for ranking first in B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1973.
Received the 1993 Best Paper Award from the Research Division of the American Waterworks Association (AWWA)
Received the 1994 Rudolph Hering Medal Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
1995 Eleanor and Joseph Libsch Award from Lehigh University for outstanding achievement in research.
1999 Industrial Ecology Fellowship Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Lucent Technologies

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Representative Recent Publications:

I. N. Mitra, A.K. SenGupta, I.J. Kugelman and R. Creighton, "Evaluating Composite Ion Exchangers (CIX) for improved stability of anaerobic biological reactors," Wat. Res. Vol 32, No. 11 pp 3267-3280, 1998.
P. Li and A.K. SenGupta, "Genesis of Selectivity and Reversibility for Sorption of Synthetic Aromatic Anions onto Polymeric Sorbents," Environ Sci. Tech., 32, 3756-3766, 1998.
A.K. SenGupta and D. Zhao, "Ultimate removal of phosphate from wastewater using a new class of polymeric ion exchangers," Water Research, vol. 32, No. 5, 1613, 1998.
S. SenGupta and A.K. SenGupta, "Heavy-metal seperation from sludge using chelating ion exchangers with nontraditional morphology," Reactive and Funcational Polymers, vol. 35, pp. 111-134, 1997.
A.K. SenGupta and S. SenGupta, "Solid phase heavy metal separation using composite ion-exchange membranes," Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Materials, vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 245, 1996
"Selective and Reversible Ligands Sorption Through a Novel Regeneration Scheme", A.K. Sengupta, and Y. Zhu, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res (1994), 33, 2, 328-386
(complete list of refereed publications)