Emerging Technologies for Waste Valorization and Environmental Protection

This book features carefully selected articles on emerging technologies for waste valorization and environmental protection. The term “waste valorization” is used particularly in engineering, economics, technology, business, environmental and policy literature to refer to any unit operation or collection of operations targeted at reusing, recycling, composting or converting wastes into useful products or energy sources without harming the environment. The book discusses the rudimentary concept, and describes a range of emerging technologies in the field, including nano, fuel-cell and membrane technologies, as well as membrane bioreactors. It also examines in detail essential and common processes in waste valorization, such as rigorous chemical engineering applications, mathematical modeling and other trans-disciplinary approaches. The chapters present high-quality research papers from the IconSWM 2018 conference.

Prof. Sadhan Kumar Ghosh is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Chief Coordinator of Centre for Sustainable Development and Resource Efficiency Management at Jadavpur University. He is the former Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Technology & Ex-Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Jadavpur University, India. He is well known international experts in the fields of waste management, circular economy, SME sustainability, green manufacturing, ISO Standards and TQM. He served as the Director, CBWE, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India and L&T Ltd. Prof Ghosh is the Founder and Chairman of the IconSWM-CE and the President of the International Society of Waste Management, Air and Water (ISWMAW), as well as the chairman of the "Indian Congress on Quality, Environment, Energy and Safety Management Systems (ICQESMS)". He was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, to work on "Energy Recovery from MSW" and working as PI at JU for Horizon 2020 project, "INDIA H20". He received several national and international awards. He is involved in collaborative research with experts from more than 30 countries and in a few national committees. He has three patents, more than 200 publications.

Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharya is the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Jadavpur University. He is a Professor and former Head in Chemical Engineering. He works as the Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Technology & Registrar at Jadavpur University. He completed his M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1991), and Ph.D. from Jadavpur University (1998) in Chemical Engineering. His areas of research interests include mass transfer studies in ultrafiltration, simulation of ultrafiltration process; other membrane separation processes like emulsion liquid membrane; wastewater treatment with specific emphasis on the membrane route; bioremediation; bioprocess engineering. He has more than 11 years of research and teaching experience. He has published many papers in international journals and conferences. He has also supervised 15 Ph.D. students and 34 M.Tech. Students.

Prof. S.V.S. Satyanarayan is Dean and Professor, Chemical Engineering, JNTU, Andhra Pradesh, India. He was the President of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineering. He completed his B.Tech. from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India; M.Tech. and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in Chemical Engineering. He has 20+ years of teaching experience. He has supervised 20 Ph.D. students. He has published more than 100 papers in international/national journals and conferences.

Prof. S. Varadarajan is a professor at S.V. University and former Secretary, AP State Council of Higher Education, Andhra Pradesh, India. He completed his B.Tech. from S.V. University; M.Tech. from National Institute of Technology, Warangal, and Ph.D. from S.V. University in Radar Signal Processing. He has 10 years of teaching experience. He has published 04 books--"Embedded Real-Time Systems" with Narosa Publisher; "Electromagnetic Theory and Transmission Lines" with Alpha Science International Ltd.; "Signals and Systems" with I.K. International Publishing House; "Electronic Devices and Circuits" in press with Lambert Publishers. He has supervised 18 Ph.D. students and 29 M. Tech. students. He is a fellow of IETE, Member of IEEE and Life Member of ISTE.