1st Edition
Waste Management and Treatment Advances and Innovations
This book covers environmental and economic waste treatment with resource recovery strategies covering mining, urban, agricultural, industrial, and sewage wastes. It further includes waste management, life-cycle assessment, recycling, and recovering valuable materials from blast furnace slags, iron ore, coal, and bauxite mining. Wastewater recycling, reuse, treatment methods, and economic gain through nanotechnology are covered, along with biochemical study cycles in mining waste and tailing, landfill stabilization, energy, and nutrient recovery from household, urban, and hazardous waste.
Features:
- Includes details on the generation and composition of hazardous wastes.
- Focuses on practices in waste management followed in developing countries.
- Illustrates concept of energy and resource recovery.
- Explains ethical, innovative management strategies dealing with solid, biomedical, and chemical wastes.
- Discusses sustainable nanotechnology and engineered materials for treatment of biological and chemical pollutants in wastewater.
This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in environmental engineering and management.
Chapter 1 – Introduction to Environmental Waste: A Serious Issue
Authors: Julekha Bagum, Subhrajeet Sahoo, Arijit Samanta, Abhishek Nalluri, Siva Sankar Sana, Preetam Bhardwaj, Karthikeyan Ramesh, Vimala Raghavan, Amar P. Garg, and Mcdonald Choudhury.
Chapter 2 – Effect of Improper Waste Disposal on Environmental, Physical, and Emotional Well-being of Human Beings
Authors: Jaya Bharti.
Chapter 3 – An Integrated Approach Towards Sustainable Waste Management: Decentralized and Community-Based Practices.
Authors: Emilda K. Joseph, Bindi Varghese, Tomy K. Kallarakal, Jose K. Antony.
Chapter 4 – Solid Waste Management
Authors: Thamilmaraiselvi B, Bhuvaneswari P, Steffi PF, Sangeetha K.
Chapter 5 - Solid Wastes: Basic Knowledge on Sources and Types for Better Management
Authors: Tanmoy Jana, Subhrajeet Sahoo, Karthikeyan Ramesh, Shyamapada Ghosh, Vimala Raghavan, Rehab A. Rayan, Abhisek Nalluri, Preetam Bhardwaj, Siva Sankar Sana
Chapter 6 - Municipal Solid Waste Management of Different Socioeconomic Groups toward Sustainable Development Goals
Authors: Pankaj Kanti Jodder, Rabeya Sultana Leya, Md. Sohel Rana, Bristi Sarkar.
Chapter 7 - Managing Solid Wastes in Developing Countries: Insights From Three Indian Smart Cities
Authors: Shivkumar Vanjari and Anil Kumar Dikshit.
Chapter 8 - Impact and Revival of Sustainable Solid Waste Management for Green Environment
Authors: Garima Kohli and Kumar Gourav.
Chapter 9 - Recent Trends in Sanitary Landfilling and Future Prospect
Authors: Muhammad Sajid.
Chapter 10 - Potential for Applicability of Decentralized Approaches in Sewage Treatment Systems Globally.
Author: Aditi Roy.
Chapter 11 - A Comprehensive Characterization of Wastewater and Sewage Sludge in SBR-Based STPS of India
Authors: Ghazal Srivastava, Ankur Rajpal, Anwar Khursheed, and Absar Ahmad Kazmi.
Chapter 12 - Advances in Nanoribbons-Structured Nanomaterials for Wastewater Treatment
Authors: Himadri Tanaya Das, Swapnamoy Dutta, Aniruddha Mondal, Payaswini Das Nigamananda Das.
Chapter 13 – Beneficial Bacteria in Restoring the Soil Contamination Caused due to Intense Agrochemicals
Authors: Dhayalan Vaithiyanathan, Karuppasamy Sudalaimuthu, and Rajchandar Padmanaban.
Chapter 14 – Innovations in Nanotechnology for Wastewater Treatment
Authors: Annika Durve Gupta, Vandana Gupta, Sonali Zankar Patil, and Goldie Oza.
Chapter 15 - Waste Management: Learning and Challenges from a Case Study of a University Model in India
Authors: Lijo Thomas, Joseph Varghese Kureethara, Martin Klein.
Chapter 16 - Biochar Production from Crop Residues
Authors: M. Vigneshwaran, A. Varalakshmi, G. Sunil Kumar, M. Karan, V. Santhosh Kumar, G. Sajith Kumar, Einstein Mariya David, Saiyyeda Ferdous, Theivasigamani Parthasarathi.
Chapter 17 - Sustainable Waste Management and Women’s Empowerment
Authors: Sheeja Karalam, Theresa Nithila Vincent, Abraham Francis.
Chapter 18 – Remote-Sensing Techniques in Solid Waste Management
Authors: Swati Singh, K. V. Suresh Babu, Shivani Singh.
Biography
Ankur Rajpal has a Ph.D. in environmental science, and currently, he is working as Project Scientist-C and is responsible for international and national wastewater, sludge, and solid waste management-related projects at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR), India. Earlier, he worked in Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) Hong Kong, as a postdoc fellow. He also worked as Senior Research Fellow on the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), MoEF, Delhi, India.
Dr. Rajpal is a fellow and life member of several professional bodies and organizations such as IWA, ANSF, etc. During past years, he has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles in international journals. He is an active reviewer of several international journals and has participated in more than 25 international and national conferences. His research achievement includes many academic honours, such as Young Scientist Award (2019) from national level agencies, international travel grants from DST and CSIR, India, and several best paper awards. His research interests focus on problems related to wastewater and bio-waste treatment, enhancement of nutrient recovery, and micro-pollutant removal from the waste and wastewater.
Moharana Choudhury is a researcher and environmentalist from Guwahati, Assam, India. He has completed his education as M Sc., PGDGIS, PGDEM, and PGCGARD from Gurukula Kangri University, Haridwar Uttarakhand, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong Meghalaya, Tezpur University, Assam, and NIRD Hyderabad, respectively. Choudhury has worked on various scientific projects in various government departments. He began his career as a research intern at NIDM in New Delhi, and then joined to NESAC/ISRO as a JRF.
He has written or edited 4 books and more than 21 articles in national and international reputed journals, proceedings, and more than 20 book chapters, and has written many articles and scientific reports in popular magazines. He is also a fellow, founder member, and life member of several academic and non-governmental societies.
He is working on environmental conservation activities for the state of Assam and the country. He has worked on several initiatives to integrate sustainable projects into various iconic heritage places, wetlands, and ecotourism spots in Assam, especially for cleanliness missions and beat plastic pollution initiatives by focusing on environmental education at school and community levels. He contributes to various environmental research, management, social media mass awareness, and research studies. He is also well-known in India for his efforts to implement environmental education and to protect the rights of environmental degree holders. He has received several leadership awards for his contribution to the environmental field.
Srijan Goswami is the Founder Director of Indian Council of Complementary Therapy and Allied Sciences, Kolkata, India. He is experienced in teaching at a diverse range of Paramedical and Life Sciences departments of reputed colleges and institutions. Dr. Goswami is a Physician of Biochemic System of Medicine and also holds specialization in Medical Biotechnology and Clinical Nutrition. He received his professional training on Community Nutrition and Child Care, Medical Microbiology, and Medical Biochemistry from reputed medical colleges in Kolkata, India. Dr. Goswami has around 8 years of experience in the field of teaching and research and has published over 30 research papers in the national and international journals. He has independently and successfully guided around ten undergraduate and postgraduate students to complete their research work and publications in the past 3 years.
Dr. Goswami has received four Letters of Commendation for Global Community Services and Certificate of Honor for his contribution in the field of Science and Knowledge. Several journals have awarded him the Certificate of Excellence as a Reviewer in 2020. He is actively associated as Editorial Review Board of 15 international journals.
Arghya Chakravorty is an early career, young, passionate researcher & enthusiastic active member of American Chemical Society; Solid Waste Association of North America; British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, as well as a registered doctoral fellow at the Centre for Nanotechnology Research, Vellore Institute of Technology – Vellore, India; holding four Indian patents, while his research interest is interdisciplinary material science & nano-biotechnology. He also likes to deal with different aspects of human resources and professional relationships. He has contributed to editing five books for CRC Press - Taylor & Francis and others; and to a dozen book chapters for different renowned international publishers like CRC Press; a couple of research as well as review papers. He has been added as a reviewer of several international standard books and reputed peer-reviewed SCI journals and awarded several national and international recognitions.
Vimala Raghavan is an enthusiastic and innovative Associate Professor at the Centre for Nanotechnology Research, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India, and has an h-index (Google Scholar) of 19. She received her Ph.D degree in Environmental Biotechnology from VIT, Vellore, India. She has guest-edited several special issues of SCI and SCOPUS indexed journals, while her research interest is in various niche areas of nanotechnology like Hybrid Nanobiomaterials, Synthesis, and Applications in Therapeutics, diagnostics, Environmental Remediation, and Energy sector. She has guided three Ph.D scholars, and ten master's project students. She is currently guiding six Ph.D scholars, as well as serving as an investigator of several internationally and nationally-funded research projects. She has more than 50 international and national journal publications and contributed three book chapters and many conference papers.
