Priya Nair
Environmental Compliance Specialist
MSc Environmental Engineering · CEnv · 12 years in regulatory permitting & discharge consents
Priya Nair (MSc, CEnv) is an environmental compliance specialist with 12 years' experience helping industrial operators secure and maintain discharge permits in England and Wales. She advises on Environment Agency consent applications, monitoring regimes and the regulatory case for water reuse and zero liquid discharge.
At MCBA she covers the compliance and sustainability guides, with an emphasis on turning dense regulatory text into practical steps facility managers can act on.
Areas of expertise: Effluent discharge consents, Environment Agency permitting, Water reuse, Zero liquid discharge, Environmental monitoring
Articles by Priya Nair
- Wastewater Management and Environmental Impact: The Global Picture
- Microplastics in Wastewater Treatment: Fate, Transport and Removal Across the Treatment Train
- Ozonation By-Product Formation: Bromate, N-Nitrosamines and Aldehydes in Wastewater Effluent
- PFAS in Municipal Wastewater: Partitioning, Precursor Biotransformation and Destruction
- Resource Recovery from Sewage Sludge: Pyrolysis Biochar for Phosphorus and Metal Immobilisation
- Assessing a Wastewater Treatment Plant: A Structured Audit Framework
- Construction Site Dewatering and Water Treatment: UK Regulatory Compliance
- Drinking Water Safety on Construction Sites: Temporary Supply Regulations and BS 8551
- Groundwater Remediation and Treatment: UK Regulatory Framework
- Industrial Effluent from Construction and Demolition: pH, Suspended Solids and Oil Interceptor Design
- Surface Water Runoff Management on Development Sites: SuDS, NPPF and Discharge Consents
- Activated Sludge Modelling: ASM1, ASM2d and ASM3 Structure, Calibration and Use
- Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors: Energy Balance, Dissolved Methane and Honest Design Limits
- Biofilm Diffusion-Reaction Kinetics: Penetration Depth, Flux and the Design of Attached-Growth Reactors
- CFD Modelling of Water Treatment Processes: Turbulence Closure, Multiphase Methods and Validation
- Digital Twins and Model Predictive Control in Water Treatment: Architecture, Mathematics and Honest Limits
- Membrane Transport Theory: The Solution-Diffusion Model, Concentration Polarisation and the Thermodynamic Limit
- Residence Time Distribution and Tracer Testing: Measuring What a Tank Really Does
- Arsenic Removal From Water: Speciation, Oxidation and Adsorption
- Biosolids Land Application: Grades, Agronomic Rates and Metal Limits
- Environmental Permitting in the UK for Water Discharges
- Hexavalent Chromium Reduction to Cr(III): The Reduction-Precipitation Route
- Membrane Distillation for High-Salinity Brine Concentration
- Nitrate Removal From Water: Ion Exchange, Denitrification and RO
- GAC vs Ion Exchange for PFAS: An Engineering and Cost Comparison
- Pollution Prevention and Spill Containment on Industrial Sites
- Greywater Recycling Systems: Characterisation, Treatment and Design
- PFAS Removal from Water: GAC, Ion Exchange and RO
- Seawater Desalination: Thermal vs Membrane and the Energy Physics
- The Circular Water Economy: Cascading Reuse and Resource Recovery
- Heavy Metals Removal from Wastewater to Meet Discharge Limits
- Cooling Water Management: Cycles of Concentration and Water Chemistry
- Industrial Rainwater Harvesting: Yield Modelling and Storage Sizing
- The Industrial Water Footprint: Blue, Green and Grey Water
- Effluent Discharge Standards in the UK Explained
- Zero Liquid Discharge Systems: How ZLD Works
- Industrial Water Reuse: A Practical Engineering Guide
- Trade Effluent Consent: What It Is & How to Get One