Advances in Solid and Hazardous Waste Management

This book provides the reader with topical applications of innovative tools for better solid and hazardous waste management. Separate sections have been compiled for both traditional and new solid waste categories with examples and case studies in all of them. Various physical, chemical and biological processes can be used for segregation and treatment of these wastes and some advanced methods are covered in this book. Advances in laboratory analytical methods, mathematical tools, remote sensing and GIS have been successfully applied to finding solutions to many problems in this field.

Sudha Goel is currently Professor in the Civil Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur. She completed her B.E. (1990) in Environmental Engineering from L.D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad and MSE (1992) and Ph.D. (1996) in Environmental Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US and has been working on various aspects of environmental engineering since then.