Saidur Chowdhury

Background

• PhD: Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada
• MESc: Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada
• BSc: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh

Research interests

• Renewable Energy and Environmental Systems;
• In situ ex situ water and wastewater treatment;
• Environmental monitoring and impact assessment;
• Greenhouse gas emission and climate change;
• Recycled waste materials, resource recovery and circular economy.

Teaching interests

• Earth Science and Sustainable Engineering
• Water Quality and Treatment
• Wastewater Treatment and Design
• Water Resource Management
• Remediation Engineering

Selected publications

Refereed book chapters

Chowdhury, S.R., (2026). Chapter: Machine Learning Applications in Sustainable Methane Recovery from Landfills and Wetlands: Opportunity and Feasibility Study. Book: Application in Chemical and Process Industries; Springer Nature Limited, Singapore. Accepted on May 2026.

Rahman, M.M., Chowdhury, S.R., Rahman, S.M., Elhaj, A., (2026). Chapter 12: Environmental impact of microplastics; Section 3: Microplastic environmental impacts, toxicology and risk. Book: Remediation Technologies for Microplastics in Aquatic Environments. © 2026 Elsevier Inc.

Siddiquee, M.N., Chowdhury, S.R., Rahman, M.M., Rahman, S.M., Razzak, S.A., (2023). Energy Recovery from Municipal Wastewater Sludge. In Solid Waste Management: Chemical Approaches, edited by Chauhan and Sevda. CRC Press. Taylor & Francis Group. FL 33487, USA. E-book ISBN: 9781003189602.

Refereed journals

Abba, S.I., Chowdhury, S.R., Usman, A.G., Razzak, S.A., (2026). Experimental and nature-inspired modeling of lipid accumulation in microalgal biomass for biofuel production. Biomass and Bioenergy Journal, 212, 109255. 

Chowdhury, S.R., Alnaser, Z.H.A., Hassan, I., and Abba, S.I., (2025). Sustainable solutions with AHP, reliability, and HAN-fuzzy sensitivity analysis for landfills. Cleaner Waste Systems 12 (2025) 100419.

Chowdhury, S.R, Mitra, B., Ghannamd, M., Kumare, U., Mozumderd, M.S., (2025). Symbiosis, zero-waste goal and resource-sharing potential for UAE industries. Journal of Environmental Management, 380, 125128. 

Dernayka, S., Chowdhury, S.R., Khasawneh, M, A., Jradi, L., and Ayadat, T., (2025). Sustainable renewable energy projects in the Eastern Province in KSA: feasibility analysis. Innovative Infrastructure Solutions Journal, 10, 485.

Islam, M.S., Chowdhury, S.R., Islam, M.M., (2024). Fuzzy approach to assess critical factors affecting conventional wastewater treatment plants (CWTP) design and construction. ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems 30(1), 04023039-1.

Chowdhury, S.R., Razzak, A.A., Hassan, I., Hossain, S.M.J., Hossain, M.M., (2023). Microplastics in freshwater and drinking water: sources, impacts, detection, and removal strategies. Journal of Water Air and Soil, 234, 673.

Chowdhury, S.R., (2023). Recycled smelter slags for in situ and ex situ water and wastewater treatment – current knowledge and opportunities. Processes, 11(3), 783.

Khan, Z.A., Chowdhury, S.R., Mitra, B., Mozumder, M.S., Elhaj, A.I., Salami, B.A., Rahman, M.M., and Rahman S.M., (2023). Analysis of industrial symbiosis case studies and its potential in Saudi Arabia. Journal of Cleaner Production. 385, 135536.

Alnaser, Z.H.A., Chowdhury, S.R. & Razzak, S.A. (2023). Constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment in Saudi Arabia: opportunities and sustainability. Arab J Science and Engineering 48 (7), 8801–8817 Springer. Impact factor- 2.807 (Q1).

Chowdhury, S.R., Yanful, E.K., (2018). Application of recycling waste products for ex situ and in situ water treatment methods. Environmental Technology. 41(7), 878-889.

Chowdhury, S.R., Yanful, E.K., and Pratt, A.R., (2014). Recycling of nickel smelter slag for arsenic remediation- an experimental study. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 21, 10096–10107.

Chowdhury, S.R., Yanful, E.K., and Pratt, A.R., (2012). Chemical states in XPS and Raman analysis during removal of Cr(VI) from contaminated water by mixed maghemite–magnetite nanoparticles. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 235–236, 246–256

Chowdhury, S.R., and Yanful, E.K., (2010). Arsenic and chromium removal by mixed magnetite-maghemite nanoparticles and the effect of phosphate on removal. Journal of Environmental Management. 91(11), 2238-2247

Refereed conference proceedings

Chowdhury, S.R., Abba, S.I., (2026). Constructed wetlands and landfills for energy harvesting in KSA: sustainability and opportunities. Materials Research Proceedings 64, 1147-1153.

Chowdhury, S.R., Abba, S.I., (2026). An investigation of water quality in groundwater- a case study. Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering (CSEE 2026) Paris, France - April, 2026 Paper No. ICEPTP 151.

Abba, S.I., Chowdhury, S.R., (2025). Explainable machine learning framework for predicting total dissolved solids in residential groundwater using RF, MLP, and SHAP. International Conference on Water and Environmental Engineering, 381-391. 

Dernayka, S., Chowdhury, S.R., Khasawneh, M., (2024). Role of renewable energy in decarburization process: case study in KSA. Materials Research Proceedings. 43, 307-315. Cited by 2.

Chowdhury, S.R., (2023). Recycled Ni smelter slag as an engineering material - opportunity and sustainability. AToMech1-2023: International Conference on Advanced Topics in Mechanics of Materials, Structures and Construction. Materials Research Proceedings, 31, 194-203.