1st Edition

Waste-to-Wealth Resource Recovery and Value-Added Products for Sustainable Development

Edited By Vinay Yadav, Shishir Shrotriya Copyright 2025
346 Pages 144 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

346 Pages 144 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

This book covers state-of-the-art resource recovery technologies from the different components of solid waste, such as plastics, e-waste, fly ash, sewage sludge, slag and their real applications. Furthermore, it explains various management strategies for agricultural waste, including the generation of bioenergy from agri-crop residue. It also highlights the recent technologies used in the... Read more

1.  Opportunities and Challenges in Resource Recovery from Waste

Unnikrishna Menon and Brajesh Kumar Dubey

 2. Best Available Techniques for Organic Livestock Waste Management in Russia

Aleksandr Briukhanov, Ekaterina Shalavina and Eduard Vasilev

 3.  Bioenergy from Organic Waste: Translation of Technology from Laboratory to Land

Sameena Begum, Sudharshan Juntupally, Vijayalakshmi Arelli, et al.

 4. Cyanobacterial Degradation of Pesticides

Nimisha Vijayan P, Mousumi Das M, M Haridas, et al.

 5. Upcycling of Plastic Waste

S.V. China Swami Naik, Kumar Raja Vanapalli and Brajesh K. Dubey

 6. High-Energy Methane Storage Systems Based on Nanoporous Carbon Adsorbent from Biomass Wastes

Ilya E. Men’shchikov, Elena V. Khozina, Olga V. Solovtsova, et al. 

 7. Utilization of Plastic Waste in Designing Tiles for Societal Usage: A Step Towards Circular Economy

S.K. Dhawan, Ridham Dhawan, Dinesh Bhardwaj, et al.

 8. Synthesis of Geopolymer Materials based on Non-ferrous Metallurgy Slag and Fly Ash Using Mechanical Activation

A. M. Kalinkin, E.V. Kalinkina, and E. A. Kruglyak

 9. Waste to Wealth: Upcycling of Solid Waste Plastics

Mayank Pathak, Bhashkar Singh Bohra, and Nanda Gopal Sahoo

 10. Recycling of Waste Heat Energy from Engine Exhausts

O.V. Lozhkina and V.N. Lozhkin

 11. Use of Conductive Material in the Anaerobic Digestion for Improving Process Performance: A Review

 Satchidananda Mishra, Sagarika Panigrahi, and Debapriya Kar

 12.  Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis (SHS) Technology for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste

M. I. Аlymov and Т. V. Barinova

 13.  Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Fuel, Feed and High Value Chemicals

Hema Jha, Upakrishnam S. V. Sanskrit, and Brajesh Kumar Dubey

 14.  Agro-Residues' Waste to Wealth for Circular Economy and Sustainable Development

Preeti Chaturvedi Bhargava, Neha Kamal, Deepshi Chaurasia, et al.

 15. Rational Synthetic Approaches to the Promising Molecules and Materials

Grigory V. Zyryanov

16. Hybrid Advanced Oxidation Processes for Treatment of Wastewater from the

Pharmaceutical Industry

Pubali Mandal and Brajesh K. Dubey 

17.  Social and Economic Impacts of Plastics on the Environment

Satya Brot Sen and Vinay Yadav

 18.  Modelling of Industrial Wastewater Treatment Using Membrane Distillation with Crystallization

Denis Kalmykov, Sergey Makaev, Georgy Golubev, et al.

 19. Recovery of Precious Metals and Rare Earth Elements from e-Waste

Hema Jha, Upakrishnam S. V. Sanskrit, and Brajesh Kumar Dubey

 20.  Environmentally Friendly Nanoparticles for Use in Agriculture

Abhishek Mondal and Brajesh Kumar Dubey

 21. Reuse of Plastic Waste in Various Systems: A Review

Vijaykumar Sekar, Baranidharan Sundaram, and Brajesh Kumar Dubey

 

Biography

Vinay Yadav is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (West Bengal). He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in Environmental Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay, Mumbai, and his bachelor’s degree from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He is also a recipient of the Award for Excellence in PhD Research for the years 2018–2020 for outstanding research contributions by IIT Bombay. Immediately after his PhD, he worked as the Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark. His expertise include environmental management, optimization under uncertainty and interval analysis-based operations research techniques.

Shishir Shrotriya is currently Head, Centre for Maritime Economy & Connectivity (CMEC) at Research & Information System (RIS), New Delhi. During his international assignment he has been Counsellor (S&T) at the Embassy of India, Moscow. He received his PhD and MTech from IIT Delhi. He specializes in communication engineering, maritime technologies and integration. He has varied scientific and project management experience and has worked closely with international and Indian partners. He has worked in areas related to indigenous sea-vessel design & related technologies and has authored many papers on innovation concepts, creative problem-solving and systems integration. He is a member of various science and engineering professional bodies and has vast collaborative project experience with academia, industry, and research institutes. During his current assignment, he is actively involved in working towards the Maritime Amrit Kaal Vision (MAKV) 2047 and Maritime India Vision (MIV) 2030 with research work, stakeholder integration, bilateral multilateral projects and initiatives.