Re-Use and Recycling of Materials: Solid Waste Management and Water Treatment (River Publishers Series in Chemical, Environmental, and Energy Engineering)

In recent years, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in industry and academia, towards the recycling and reuse of materials. Most nations are now trying to reduce the amount of waste materials, through the proper recycling of materials.

Re-Use and Recycling of Materials will help readers to understand the current status in the field of waste management, as well as what research is taking place to deal with such issues.

Technical topics discussed in the book include:

• Municipal solid waste management
• Recycling of WEEE
• Waste to industrially important product like lignin and cellulose
• Recycling of agriculture waste
• Polymer and plastic recycling

Prof. Ange Nzihou (M) is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering since 2012. Since 2000, he has developed outstanding expertise in research fields such as Energy and added value materials from Biomass and Waste; Elaboration, functionalisation phosphate based composites/hybrid materials (sorbents, fertilizers, catalysts, energy carriers, sensors) for energy, agriculture and depollution(liquid, gas, solid phases); Thermochemical processes (pyrolysis, gasification, reforming) for biochar, bioash and energy production; The behavior of pollutants such as heavy metals and aerosols (fine particles) and Kinetics and transfer phenomena are among its field of expertise. He is Visiting Professor in number of renown Universities (USA, Ireland, China, India). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the peer reviewed journal "Waste and Biomass Valorization", and the founding Chair of the WasteEng Conference Series dedicated to the organisation of conferences and seminars on Waste and Biomass Valorisation since 2005. He is currently editing a Handbook on characterisation of biomass, biowaste and related by-products (Springer) to be published in June 2019. He obtained some International and National significant scientific recognition and awards such as the Grand Prix 2018 of the Academy of Sciences (France) in association with IMT (Institut Mines-Telecom) for his outstanding contribution in science and technology of Energy transition. He was also awarded with the Erudite Professor of the Mahatma Ghandi University (India) in 2018. The previous recipients of this professorship are well known and outstanding international scientists, academicians and Nobel Prize winners. He is also evaluator for Executive Committee of the World Bank (The PASET Scholarship in Innovation Fund programme). He was also appointed member of the scientific advisory board of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute WPI (USA) from 2017. He was also promoted Knight of the National Order of Merit (France) in 2017 on the best hood of the president of France. He has frequently worked as evaluator for EU projects (RTD, SME, Intereg) under the FP7 and H2020 programmes.

Prof. Dr. Sabu Thomas is currently the Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University and the Founder Director and Professor of the International and Inter-University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He is also a full professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the School of Chemical Sciences of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. Prof. Thomas is an outstanding leader with sustained international acclaims for his work in Nanoscience, Polymer Science and Engineering, Polymer Nanocomposites, Elastomers, Polymer Blends, Interpenetrating Polymer Networks, Polymer Membranes, Green Composites and Nanocomposites, Nanomedicine and Green Nanotechnology. Dr. Thomas's ground breaking inventions in polymer nanocomposites, polymer blends, green bio-nanotechnological and nano-biomedical sciences, have made transformative differences in the development of new materials for automotive, space, housingandbiomedicalfields.IncollaborationwithIndia'spremiertyrecompany, Apollo Tyres, Professor Thomas's group invented new high performance barrier rubber nanocomposite membranes for inner tubes and inner liners for tyres. Professor Thomas has received a number of national and international awards which include: Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London FRSC, Distinguished Professorship from Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, MRSI medal, Nano Tech Medal, CRSI medal, Distinguished Faculty Award, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Award for Scientific Excellence - 2016, Mahatma Gandhi University-Award for Outstanding Contribution - Nov. 2016, Lifetime Achievement Award of the Malaysian Polymer Group, Indian Nano Biologists award 2017 and Sukumar Maithy Award for the best polymer researcher in the country.