Solid Waste Treatment Technologies: Challenges and Perspectives

This book covers all technical, managerial, and legislative aspects of waste management at a global scale, providing a detailed description about different types of wastes, their characteristics, legal perspectives, and sustainable practices for their management supported by various case studies.

Dr. Pratibha Gautam is Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Environmental Science & Technology at UPL University of Sustainable Technology, Ankleshwar (Gujarat), India. Dr. Gautam is also QCI-NABET approved Functional Area Expert (FAE) for Air pollution monitoring, prevention, and control (AP). She is also designated as Technical Manager (TM) for NABL accredited Environmental Laboratory. In total, she has more than 10 years of industrial as well as academic experience. At present, she is actively involved in the environmental audit of industries and several research and consultancy projects based on environmental issues for industries. She has guided several graduate and postgraduate students on their thesis projects. She has a wide knowledge of different environmental aspects including solid waste management, Air Pollution Control, advanced oxidation processes for wastewater treatment and environmental audit etc. She has many publications in reputed international journals and has published several book chapters. She is a GATE and NET qualified environment professional and is the recipient of scholarships from the Indian government (MHRD) and the Netherlands government (NFP fellowship).

Dr. Vineet Kumar is currently working as a Senior Project Associate in the Waste Re-processing Division at CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. He received his M.Sc. and M.Phil. degree in Microbiology from Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, India. Subsequently, he earned his Ph.D. (2018) in Environmental Microbiology from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar (A Central) University, Lucknow, India. Dr. Kumar’s research interest includes: Bioremediation, Phytoremediation, Metagenomics, Wastewater Treatment, Environmental Monitoring, Waste Management; Bioenergy, and Biofuel Production. Currently, his research mainly focuses on the development of integrated and sustainable treatment techniques that can help in minimizing or eliminating hazardous waste in the environment. He has published 25 research/review articles in reputed International Journals, written 4 Proceeding Papers, 38 book chapters, and authored/edited over 14 books in the different aspects of Phytoremediation, Bioremediation, Wastewater Treatment, Omics, Genomics, and Metagenomics published by various publishers.

Dr. Sunil Kumar is a well-rounded researcher with more than 20 years of experience in leading, supervising and undertaking research in the broad field of environmental engineering and science with focus on Solid and Hazardous Waste Management. His primary area of expertise is solid waste management (Municipal Solid Waste, Electronic waste, Biomedical Waste etc.) over a wide range of environmental topics including contaminated sites, EIA and wastewater treatment. He has contributed extensively to these fields and has a citation of 8825, h-index of 44, and i10-index of 168 (Google scholar). His contributions since inception at CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), India in 2000 include 300 refereed journal publications, 05 books and 40 book chapters, 10 Edited volumes and numerous project reports to various governmental and private, local, and International academic/research bodies. He is the Associate Editor of peer reviewed journals of the international. He has completed more than 22 research projects as PI with 17 (7 awarded) Ph. D. and 17 M. Phil/M. Tech thesis/dissertations under his supervision. Dr. Kumar was also awarded the most prestigious award Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Jean-Paul-Str.12 D-53173 Bonn, Germany as a Senior Researcher for developing a Global Network and Excellence for more advanced research and technology innovation.