Dr Parneet Paul

BSc(Eng), MSc, MRes, PhD, C.WEM, CEng, CEnv, FCIWEM, MICE, MIChemE, FHEA

Dr Parneet Paul is a Chartered Civil and Chemical Engineer; a Chartered Water and Environmental Manager; and a Chartered Environmentalist who has broad experience gained in the UK and overseas environment. Dr Paul is both a specialist water engineer experienced in project management and systems design up to Principal Engineer level, and an academic researcher with specialist interests in wastewater treatment system’s design and development. He is the Course Director for the MSc in Water Engineering.

Brief biography

His first degree in Civil Engineering is from King’s College, London, and he has an MSc degree in Building Services Engineering from Brunel University. Additionally he holds a Master’s of Research degree in the Built Environment from the University of Leeds and a PhD in Water Engineering from De Montfort University in which he specialised in membrane bioreactors for wastewater treatment.

Before joining Brunel University as a Lecturer in Hydraulics/Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Dr Paul worked as a Senior Research Fellow in the Process Control – Water Software Systems research group based in De Montfort University, Leicester. Whilst at De Montfort University, he was the Project Manager for a UK Government funded project entitled “Improving the design and efficiency of membrane bioreactor plant by modelling, simulation and laboratory analysis methods”.

Prior to that he carried out various water engineering assignments in different global locations over several years, e.g. Tuvalu – South Pacific; Swaziland – Southern Africa; Sierra Leone and Liberia – West Africa; East Timor and the Philippines – South East Asia. He is a member of the REDR organisation (Registered Engineer’s for Disaster Relief), and has carried out assignments with the European Commission’s Office in the Pacific, Skillshare International, Oxfam GB, Oxfam Australia, and PADCO Washington (via USAID). Finally, he has also worked for top UK engineering consultancy firms, namely Arups in Central London and Bullens (now part of AECOMM Group) in North West England.

Dr Paul is the Director of Brunel University’s Water Sustainability Research Centre and he is on the Board of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management as well as being a Fellow of the same institution.

Academic Qualifications

• PhD Water Engineering, De Montfort University, UK
• MRes Built Environment, University of Leeds, UK
• MSc Building Services Engineering, Brunel University, UK
• BSc(Eng) Hons Civil Engineering, Kings College, University of London, UK

Research Interests

• Water and wastewater engineering.
• Drainage design and development.
• Wastewater treatment design.
• Natural wastewater reuse.
• Sanitary microbiology.
• Water engineering in developing countries.
• Membranes in wastewater.

Teaching

Module leader

• CE1600 – Fundamentals of fluid mechanics
• CE3002 – Water Engineering
• CE5014 / CE5512 – Water Process Engineering
• CE5515 – Hydrology and Hydraulics
• CE5511 – Water Treatment Engineering
• CE5509 – Water Infrastructure Engineering

Module teaching contributor

• CE2001 - Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics

CORE ENGINEERING SKILLS

1. Design, installation and commissioning of wastewater treatment plant from small scale to large systems (e.g. package treatment works, conventional activated sludge plant, membrane bioreactors, waste stabilisation ponds, etc.).
2. Design and construction of sewerage systems (foul/surface sewers) and conventional underground drainage in urban environments (e.g. Sewers for Adoption regulations).
3. Design and installation of sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS, e.g. leaching fields, seepage pits, etc), on-plot sanitation systems (e.g. multi-chamber septic tanks), and low-cost sewerage systems.
4. Design and construction of potable water supply systems and networks (e.g. spring catchment gravity feed GI pipelines, boosted borehole extraction systems, shallow wells, etc.) and water treatment works i.e. sand filtration, coagulation/flocculation and disinfection systems.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Chartered Engineer
• Chartered Civil Engineer
• Chartered Chemical Engineer
• Chartered Water and Environmental Manager
• Chartered Environmentalist
• Member of CIWEM’s Joint Professional Board and Engineering Professional Board
• Serving as a Member of CIWEM’s Accreditation Panel for university courses

MEMBERSHIPS

• Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, UK
• Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK
• Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, UK
• Member of the Society for the Environment, UK
• Registered Member of RedR UK (Registered Engineer’s for Disaster Relief)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Publications

Journal Papers

(2013) Paul, P., Comparing and contrasting traditional membrane bioreactor models with novel ones based on time series analysis, Membranes 3 (1) : 16- 23

(2012) Paul, P., An analysis of gender when creating a water engineering course, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal Engineer 165 (3) : 137- 147

(2012) Paul, P., Comparison of phenomenological membrane bioreactor activated sludge biological models with alternative versions based on time series input-output approaches, Desalination and Water Treatment 35 (1-3) : 110- 117

(2011) Paul, P., Investigation of a MBR membrane fouling model based on time series analysis system identifi cation methods, Desalination and Water Treatment 35 92- 100

(2009) Janus, T., Paul, P. and Ulanicki, B., Modelling and simulation of short and long term membrane filtration experiments, Desalination and Water Treatment 8 37- 47

(2008) Paul, P. and Hartung, C., Modelling of biological fouling propensity by inference in a side stream membrane bioreactor, Desalination 224 (1-3) : 154- 159

(Accepted) Paul, P., Development and Testing of a Fully Adaptable Membrane Bioreactor Fouling Model for a Sidestream Configuration System, Membranes