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GUNASEELAN ALAGAPPAN, P.E.

Duluth, GA 30097 Tel: (404) 217-4107 E-mail: gunaalagappan@netscape.net

CAREER SUMMARY
Goal oriented environmental engineer with 8 years of consulting experience and 10 years of research experience in industrial wastewater treatment for US and international clients. Examples of Industries Served include: Chevron (manufacturer of quality additives for fuels and lubricants) Oman Methanol Company/MAN Ferrostaal (methanol plants) US Steel (steel manufacturer) EnerTech Environmental (producer of renewable fuel from biosolids) SembCorp (Synthetic sweetener manufacturer) Russky Island (Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant)

EXPERIENCE/SKILLS
Generating process design for anaerobic, anoxic and aerobic plants, aeration system, settling tanks, DAF, mixers, chemical feed pumps, membrane filtration, and granular media units involving activated carbon, IE resins, etc. Preparing preliminary design and cost proposals, data analysis, preparing project reports, presentations, and operators training seminars at client location. Planning and managing startup related activities at client site and recommending operational strategies to plant personnel after achieving steady-state operation. Effective in interactions with clients and plant personnel. Developing equipment specifications and identified vendors for full-scale biological and physical-chemical wastewater treatment plant. Conducting treatability and pilot studies to evaluate feasibility of treating waste streams from various industries. Treatment units included membrane bioreactors, ion-exchange media and activated carbon adsorption. Well experienced in generating line listing, instrument listing, general arrangement, equipment specification, vendor identification, and process flow diagram for full-scale treatment plants. Scrutinizing QA/QC for effluent data from laboratories for their accuracy. Expertise in identifying precipitants, coagulant and flocculent chemicals for removing specific chemicals from industrial wastes and flow back/produced water from fracking operations. Investigated and performed tests for clients to remediate sites contaminated with gasoline and chlorinated solvents. Applied mathematical models to interpret data for clients.

LICENSE/CERTIFICATIONS
Professional Engineer (P.E.) - Environmental. 40-Hour OSHA HazWOper Training. TSA Transportation Worker Identification Credential. 1

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Environmental Engineer, Ecologix Environmental, Alpharetta, GA 2011- Present
- Developing process design proposal for a wide variety of industrial and municipal RFPs. - Generating process design, equipment sizing and specification for treatment systems. - Estimating design parameters from published literature when data not available for a given type of wastewater. - Design and perform bench scale and pilot treatability studies for evaluating and selecting treatment processes (physical, chemical, biological) for a given waste stream. - Treatment technologies designed include dissolved air flotation, clarifiers, aerobic, anoxic and anaerobic biological treatment systems, chemical oxidation, coagulation and flocculation, carbon adsorption, ion exchange, etc. - Estimating energy generation potential for high strength wastewater with anaerobic reactors and CHP generators. - Provide equipment/material specification during detailed design phase. - Identifying precipitants, coagulant and flocculent chemicals for removing specific chemicals from industrial wastes and flow back and produced water from fracking operations. - Developing data analysis, project reports, presentations, and operating manuals for clients. - Startup and troubleshooting for full-scale treatment plant. - Maintaining communications with client project managers and plant personnel. - Managing and mentoring junior scientists and engineers.

Senior Process Engineer, Enertech Environmental, Atlanta, GA

2009 2011

- Generated process calculations for biological and physical-chemical treatment alternatives for treating centrate from thermal treated Municipal biosolids. - Evaluated performance of bench-scale anaerobic, anoxic and aerobic bioreactors, ultrafiltration, and ozone pretreatment for wastewater treatment. - Planned and coordinated procurement of sludge for augmenting full scale anaerobic units. - Tested ion exchange media and activated carbon for ammonia and organics removal from waste streams. - Identified and communicated with vendors for dewatering equipments and raw materials suppliers.

Project Engineer, ENVIRON International Corp, Nashville, TN

2005 - 2009

- Conducted treatability and pilot studies to evaluate feasibility of treating waste streams from various industries including alcohol, coke oven, lubricant oil, and heavy metals. - Extensive international work experience with industrial clients in Oman, Singapore, Canada and Germany. - Effective in interactions with client project managers and plant personnel. - Proficient in writing proposals, data analysis and preparing project reports for industries and government agencies. - Expertise in startup, troubleshooting and operation of wastewater treatment plants. - Well experienced in generating process design, line listing, instrument listing, cost estimates, and process flow diagram for full-scale wastewater treatment plants. - Demonstrated skills at presentations for performance reports and operators training seminars at client location.

Environmental Scientist/Lab Director, Respirtek, Inc. Biloxi, MS

2004 2005

- Designed and executed projects related to Industrial waste treatment and groundwater bioremediation. - Drafted research proposals to funding agencies and chemical industries. - Developed project reports and accreditation reports towards fulfilling US Environmental Protection Agency requirements.

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EDUCATION
Ph.D. Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA 1995 - 2001 M. S. Environmental Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology 1992 - 1994

RELEVANT PROJECTS
Oman Methanol Company, Oman/MAN Ferrostaal, Germany - Generated tank design, equipment specification, piping and instrumentation, and mixing alternatives proposal for a process water equalization system. - Proposed pretreatment process and design to improve cooling tower performance. - Modified process configuration to treat off-spec process wastewater. - Started up and achieved steady-state operation of a 0.26 MGD wastewater treatment plant with equalization, cooling towers, aerobic biological treatment and sludge disposal. - Achieved consistent effluent quality to pass performance test and obtain discharge permit. - Maintained communication and presented performance reports at client sites. - Presented operators training seminar at client site in Oman. SembCorp Utilities, Singapore - Evaluated pilot-scale membrane bioreactors, ion-exchange media and activated carbon adsorption for treating artificial sweetener wastewater. - Monitored membrane flux rate over time and applied clean-in-place procedures. - Determined biodegradation kinetics for specific pollutants removal. - Prepared Operation & Maintenance Manual for operating the full-scale plant. EnerTech Environmental Plant, Rialto, California -Generated process design for biological and physical-chemical treatment alternatives for thermal treated biosolids centrate. - Planned and coordinated procurement of sludge for augmenting full scale anaerobic units. - Evaluated performance of bench-scale anaerobic, anoxic and aerobic bioreactors, ultrafiltration, and ozone pretreatment for wastewater treatment. - Evaluated various chemical coagulants and UF membrane for effluent TSS removal. - Tested ion exchange media and activated carbon for ammonia and residual organics removal from waste streams. - Identified and communicated with vendors for dewatering equipments, raw materials, and wastewater treatment units. US Steel, Canada and Cruzan Rum, Virgin Islands - Developed equipment specifications and vendor identification for full-scale biological and physical-chemical wastewater treatment plant. - Performed treatability tests to remove heavy metals from wastewater. - Identified process limitations from WWTP performance data causing poor nitrification.

Chevron, US and Singapore

- Demonstrated metals removal by chemical precipitation, ion exchange, sludge thickening and dewatering in bench scale. - Developed process design, sizing, preliminary project costs and process layout for full scale units. - Designed treatability tests and evaluated performance of various treatment technologies for phosphorus removal from oily wastewater streams. 3

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Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant, Vladivostok, Russia

- Coordinated installation and equipment and supplies shipment activities. - Involved in process calculations, startup and troubleshooting of 1.5 MGD biological units. - Maintained communication with vendors, operators and contractors at client site. - Generated operations manual for the plant, from headwork through discharge.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIP

Managing editor - NASA Journal, Habitation (http://habitation.rutgers.edu/). 2002 - 2004 Member - Organizing committee for HABITATION2004, an International Conference on Space Habitation Research and Technology Development for NASA. (http://habitation.rutgers.edu/habitation2004) 2004 Peer reviewer - international journal, Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 2001 - 2004 Organized Seminars (within the Program and Invited) for Environmental Sciences Graduate Program at Rutgers University. 1997 - 1999 Member - Water Environment Federation. 2000 - 2007 Member-Association for Environmental Engineering and Science Professors. 1997 - 2002

AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS RECEIVED
IAWQ student membership and journal subscription awarded by the United States of America National Committee, Inc., 1999. Kenneth S. Stoller Scholarship Award conferred by NJ Water Environment Association, 2000. Best Poster Award conferred by NJ Water Environment Association, 2001.

PUBLICATIONS
Alagappan, G. and Cowan R. M. 2004. Effect of temperature and dissolved oxygen on the growth kinetics of Pseudomonas putida F1 grown on benzene and toluene. Chemosphere, 54(8), 1255-1265. Alagappan, G. and Cowan R. M. 2003. Substrate inhibition kinetics for toluene and benzene degrading pure cultures and a method for collection and analysis of respirometric data for strongly inhibited cultures. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 83(7), 798-809. Alagappan, G. and Cowan R. M. 2001. Biokinetic models for representing the complete inhibition of microbial activity at high substrate concentrations. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 75(4), 393-405. Cowan, R. M., Alagappan, G., Ellis, T. G., Higgins, M., and Uberoi, V. 1997. Activated Sludge and other Aerobic Suspended Growth Processes, Water Environment Research, 69(4), 462-487. Cowan, R. M., Ellis, T. G., Higgins, M., Alagappan, G., and Park, K. 1996. Activated Sludge and other Aerobic Suspended Growth Processes, Water Environment Research, 68(4), 451-469. Harendranath, C. S., Anuja, K., Singh, A., Gunaseelan, A., Satish, K., and Lala, K. 1996. Immobilization in Fixed Film Reactors: An Ultrastructural Approach, Water Science and Technology, 33(8), 7-15. 4