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Waste-to-Wealth: Resource Recovery and Value-Added Products for Sustainable Development
Author(s): Vinay Yadav (Editor), Shishir Shrotriya (Editor)
- Publisher: CRC Press
- Publication Date: 18 Oct. 2024
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 346 pages
- ISBN-10: 103235609X
- ISBN-13: 9781032356099
Book Description
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 management of industrial waste, their implementation at a large scale and the treatment of industrial effluent with the rationale synthetic approach, hybrid advanced oxidation process and bio-methanation.
Features:
- Provides a technical interpretation for creating wealth from waste by the experts in the research domain.
- Covers various aspects of waste management, current resource recovery and recycling trends.
- Presents a unique combination of municipal, agricultural and industrial waste management towards achieving a resilient smart city.
- Imparts knowledge of policies and regulations in different countries and their impacts on waste management.
- Illustrates various technologies for waste processing through case studies.
This book is aimed at researchers and policymakers in environmental engineering, waste management and clean energy.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
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About the Author
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.
