Waste management

Plastic is one of the widely used polymers around the globe since its discovery.

The edited book brings out a comprehensive synthesis of latest scientific literature covering various important aspects of anaerobic biodigesters for human waste management that ranges from latest understanding on fundamental concepts/mechanisms of anaerobic biodigestion, modern tools and techniques used in process evaluation, current strategies being recruited for the performance enhancement, and case studies/ success stories across the world on applications of biodigesters used in human waste treatment.

The book presents a collection of articles from the 6th International Conference on Civil Engineering, 2022, held in Singapore.

This book comprises of papers from the International Conference on Advances and Innovations in Recycling Engineering (AIR-2021).

This book critically evaluates recently investigated feedstock for biofuels production.

In this first volume, various materials such as chitosan, lignin-based biomaterials, cellulosic based bio materials, carbon materials, Polysaccharide-composites materials, Aromatic-Based Synthetic Macromolecules, Agricultural wastes, etc for treating textile waste water are highlighted.

This interdisciplinary book incorporates various aspects of environment, ecology, and natural disaster management including cognitive informatics and computing.

In this second volume, various materials such as Magnetic-based biocomposites, wheat bran/straw-based biomaterials, peel-based biomaterials, luffa Based Biomaterials, composite polymeric membranes, rice husk, hydroxyapatite etc for treating textile waste water are highlighted.

Among various industries releasing wastewater into the environment, printing, dyeing and textile industries are of great importance as they frequently contain high amounts of colorful compounds having high chemical and biological oxygen demands.

The textile industry is among the most significant polluters of water owing to the existence of various types of pollution streams generated by printing processes and textile dyeing.

Textile industry wastewater contains toxic dyes as well as heavy metals and many other persistent organic compounds which are difficult to biodegrade using conventional biological methods.

The edited book provides both fundamentals as well as key factors of climate change, extreme events and disaster risk management.

This book highlights ways to evaluate circular economy using global standard and footprints the way global firms are using to ensure the measurement of the impact.

The textile industry segment has been continuously expanding and it is reported that the global market was US$1000 billion in 2020.

This Volume 2 contains essential contributions highlighting the use of biotechnology in dye removal.

This book presents five interesting chapters dealing with the sustainability of toys.

This book puts together all aspects of valorization of vegetable and fruit wastes (VFWs) into different biocommodities and platform chemicals using fermentation and non-fermentation processes.

This book deals with the general principles, policy instruments, sustainability of supply chain, and business of health-care waste (HCW) management including inputs on exercise in immune health defense against COVID 19.

Recycling is the need of the hour and it is an inevitable destination at the end of the life of any product.

This book is based on recent trends for the research in emerging environmental contaminants in different compartment of the environment.

This book discusses the latest advancements in the area of biofuel development.

This book highlights current efforts and research on waste management, processing and valorization, particularly in Asia-Africa countries.

This book covers the research fields in biodiversity conservation, the Belt and Road eco-environmental cooperation, China's five-year plan for eco-environmental protection, sustainable development goals assessment, and human health loss assessment.

The book is the collection of the latest research results from Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning in environmental policy and reform during the past years, mainly related to ecological compensation, the emission trading, the environment audit, carbon tax, environment friendly city, environmental health, economic policy in medical waste, scattered coal treatment subsidies, environmental policy efficiency analysis, environmental industry statistics, environmental performance evaluation, green fiscal and taxation policy, etc.

This book systematically presents the technical aspects of supercritical water oxidation and supercritical water gasification for energy and environmental applications, which include reactor design, construction materials, corrosion, salt precipitation, etc.

This book covers sustainable recycling processes (e.

This book is the first comprehensive book in the world on co-processing of wastes as Alternative Fuels and Raw materials (AFRs) in cement kilns.

An enormous amount of synthetic dyes is used annually in the textile, leather, plastics, paper, and dye industries due to their coloring properties.

This second volume on 'Inorganic-Organic Composites for Water and Wastewater Treatment' reviews research findings on advanced materials and methods for purification.

Water is regarded as an important element for sustainable development and many countries are attempting to provide clean water for municipal and industrial sectors.

This book aims to provide comprehensive and systematic introduction and summary of corrosion characteristics, mechanisms, and control methods of candidate alloys in sub- and supercritical water environment.

This contributed volume focuses on the effects of macro, meso, micro, and nanoplastic waste on marine biota.

This book highlights recent findings of membrane - based dye removal methods along with the application of photocatalytic, nanofiltration and ultrafiltration membrane including membrane - based fibers, metal-organic frameworks, polyethersulfone, ceramic, etc.

Biochar prepared from agricultural biomass has received considerable attention because of the huge availability of ago-waste at zero cost, flexibility, high efficiency, renewability, faster contaminant removal rate, ability to treat concentrated effluent and reduction of sludge production after the treatment.

This book highlights the impact of COVID-19 on sustainable waste management and air emission, using various case studies.

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive account of the recent developments in the recycling of plastic waste material.

Japan was ahead of the rest of the world when it introduced intermediate processing of municipal waste by such means as incineration in the 1960s.

Global population by 2050 is predicted to be over 9 billion and accordingly, the production systems will demolish about 140 billion tons per year of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass, i.

The book presents a sequential approach for the treatment of dye wastewater, presenting state-of-the-art techniques based on recent findings.

This book highlights novel materials for dye-containing wastewater treatment and presents an up-to-date information on dye degradation/adsorption using new promising materials such as nanocomposites.

This book puts together all aspects of valorization of vegetable and fruit wastes (VFWs) into different biocommodities and platform chemicals using fermentation and non-fermentation processes.

This book presents the advantages of the circular economy as a powerful - and inevitable - model for tackling the current challenges against shrinking resources and establishing the resource efficient economy.

The textile waste water is well known to contain many detrimental impacts in terms of its pollutants and the issues pertaining to its discharged without being untreated, or even discharged without meeting all stipulated parameters.

Water pollution is a matter of concern for both developing and developed parts of the world.

This book introduces advanced or emerging technologies for conversion of wastes into a variety of high-value chemicals and materials.

This book provides the detail information about nanoparticles, their types, characterization techniques such as TEM, FESEM, AFM, XRD etc.

This book presents the adaptation of lean principles to the precast construction industry to eliminate or minimize construction wastes, by modeling the precast construction process influencing manpower requirements.

This book provides up-to-date information on the state of the art in applications of biotechnological and microbiological tools for protecting the environment.

This book consists of select peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on Sustainable Environmental Engineering and Science (SEES) 2019.

This volume comprises select papers presented during the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018.