Urban Mining for Waste Management and Resource Recovery: Sustainable Approaches

by Pankaj Pathak (Editor), Prangya Ranjan Rout (Editor)

Overview

Scientific management strategies can help in exploring anthropogenic wastes (human-made materials) as potential resources through the urban mining concept and be a panacea for sustainable development. This book covers five broader aspects of waste management and resource recovery in urban mining including solid and liquid waste management and treatment. It explains sustainable approaches of urban mining for the effective management of solid and liquid wastes and facilitates their conversion into secondary resources. Overall, this book provides details of urban mining and its different applications including current waste management problems, practices, and challenges faced worldwide.

• Presents a holistic approach for urban mining considering various types of wastes
• Describes contemporary integrated approaches for waste management with specific case studies
• Provides technical, social, and environmental aspects of solid and liquid wastes
• Considers aspects of sustainability and a circular bio-economy
• Incorporates pertinent case studies on water and wastewater management

This volume caters to researchers and graduate students in environmental engineering, solid waste management, wastewater treatment, and materials science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032061795
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	12/21/2021
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Pankaj Pathak is an Assistant Professor at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh, India,  with  a  keen  interest  in  sustainable  waste  management,  green  energy  resources, and geochemistry, including sustainable handling of hazardous waste and associated environmental impacts. She has been involved in various research projects viz., waste to resource, nuclear waste management and characterization of buffer materials, and e-waste management. She has also gained research expe-rience  in  dealing  with  hazardous  solid  and  liquid  waste  treatment  technology,  along with hydrometallurgical recovery of metals from waste streams, their safe disposal, and remediation techniques.        Dr. Prangya Ranjan Rout is presently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala,  Punjab,  India.  He  also  worked  as  a  researcher  at  INHA  University,  Incheon, Republic of Korea from 2018–2020. He holds an MTech degree in bio-technology  and  a  PhD  in  environmental  engineering.  His  research  interest  lies  in the domain of anaerobic digestion, bioconversion of wastes to wealth, emerg-ing  contaminant  removal,  membrane  technology,  resource  recovery  and  reuse,  and  wastewater  treatment.  He  has  authored  over  50  publications,  including  ref-ereed journal articles, book chapters, national and international conference pre-sentations,  technical  notes,  and  a  published  patent.  Some  of  the  awards  he  has  received include the Odisha Young Scientist Award 2017, Best Practice Oriented Paper 2019 from ASCE-EWRI, and Outstanding Reviewer 2019 from ASCE. He is an Associate Editor of theASCE Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Wastes  and  has  served  as  a  guest  editor  of  a  special  issue  of  the  journal.  He  is  also  actively  involved  in  editing  contributed  book  volumes  for  internationally  renowned publishers, such as CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, John Wiley & Sons, and ASCE.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Introduction 1. Basic Concepts, Potentials and Challenges of Urban Mining Section 2: Solid Waste management 2. Food Waste 3. Construction and Demolition Waste 4. Biomedical Waste Section 3: Liquid Waste Management 5. Domestic Wastewater 6. Agricultural Wastewater 7. Industrial Wastewater Section 4: Solid Waste Treatment 8. Municipal Solid Waste 9. Industrial Solid Waste Section 5: Liquid Waste Treatment 10. Municipal Wastewater Treatment 11. Industrial Wastewater Treatment 12. Summary and Conclusions