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Md Sazzadul Haque

Ph.D Student
  • Advisor: Wang

BSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Jan 2014 - Apr 2020)

North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Undergraduate Thesis: Sustainable Industrial Water Management: Efficacy of Water Management Tool for a Textile Industry in Bangladesh

My research is focused on topics related to environmental pollution control and management, water quality, industrial water reuse and management, engineering education, circular economy and natural resource management, waste valorization, and management.

Nahar N., Haque M.S. and Haque S.E. (2024). Groundwater conservation, and recycling and reuse of textile wastewater in a denim industry of Bangladesh. Water Resour. Ind. 31: 100249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wri.2024.100249

 Haque S.E., Nahar N. and Haque M.S. (2024). A study on the waste generation rates and recycling potential for the construction and demolition waste in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Environ. Monit. Assess. 196: 183. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-024-12329-3

Haque S.E., Nahar N., Chowdhury N.N., Sayanno T.K. and Haque M.S. (2024). Geomorphological changes of river Surma due to climate change. Int. J. Energ. Water Res. (In Press). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42108-023-00275-8

Gazi-Khan L., Haque M.S., Nahar N. and Haque S.E. (2023). Wastewater recycling of a Bangladeshi denim factory: a case study. In: M. Alamgir, S. Islam and J. A. Saju (eds.), Proceedings of the Waste Safe 2023 – 8th International Conference on Integrated Solid Waste and Faecal Sludge Management, 25-26 February 2023, Khulna, Bangladesh, pp. 1-8. [ISBN: 978-984-35-4034-8]

Miah M.B., Haque M.S., Khaleque M.A. and Santos R.M. (2023). Sludge management in the textile industries of Bangladesh: an industrial survey of the impact of the 2015 standards and guidelines. Water 15: 1901. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15101901

Nayeem S.U., Rashid H., Habib T., Haque M.S., Haque S. and Nahar N. (2022). Identification of construction and demolition waste generation rates, and recycling and reuse potential: a case of Dhaka City. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering (ICACE-2022), CUET, Chattogram, Bangladesh.

Haque M.S., et al. (2022). An overview of microplastic pollution in the environment. In: J. A. Daniels (ed.), Advances in Environmental Research (Vol. 92), Nova Science Publishers, USA. https://doi.org/10.52305/WCHH3657

 Haque S., Nahar N., Shahriar M. and Haque M.S. (2022). Impact of brick kiln emissions on soil quality: a case study of Ashulia brick kiln cluster, Bangladesh. Environ. Challenges 9: 100640. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2022.100640

Haque M.S. and Sharif S. (2021). The need for an effective environmental engineering education to meet the growing environmental pollution in Bangladesh. Clean. Eng. Technol. 4:100114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2021.100114

Haque M.S. and Islam S. (2021). Effectiveness of waste plastic bottles as construction material in Rohingya displacement camps. Clean. Eng. Technol. 3:100110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2021.100110

Haque M.S., et al. (2021). Industrial water management and sustainability: development of SIWP tool for textile industries of Bangladesh. Water Resour. Ind. 25:100145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wri.2021.100145

Haque M.S., et al. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 pandemic-induced PPE and single-use plastic waste generation scenario. Waste Manag. Res. 39, pp. 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734242X20980828

 Haque M.S., et al. (2021). Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) induced waste scenario: a short overview. J. Environ. Chem. Eng. 9:104660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2020.104660

 Haque M.S. (2019). Sustainable use of plastic brick from waste PET plastic bottle as building block in Rohingya refugee camp: a review. Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. 26, pp. 36163-36183. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-06843-y

 Haque M.S. (2019). Assimilating urban rainwater harvesting as fire extinguisher: a study in Dhaka city. ULAB J. Sci. Eng. 10, pp. 3-10.

 Haque M.S. and Rinkey F.N. (2019). Rainwater quality assessment of different locations of Dhaka city. Int. J. Sci. Res. 8, pp. 269-273. https://doi.org/10.21275/ART20194918

Presentations:

 "Plastic brick: utilization of waste plastic bottles in Rohingya displacement camp". International Conference on Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh: Challenges and Sustainable Solutions, Dhaka, Bangladesh [27 Jul 2019 – 28 Jul 2019]