Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Strategic Perspectives in Solid Waste and Wastewater Management

Examines the role of innovation in technological intervention in SWM and WWM, including proper implementation and a global business model

Sunil Kumar (Edited by), Rakesh Kumar (Edited by), Ashok Pandey (Edited by)

9780128210093, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 18 June 2021

448 pages
23.5 x 19 x 2.8 cm, 1 kg

Strategic Perspectives in Solid Waste and Wastewater Management explores conventional and advanced biotechnologies for waste management, including socio-economic aspects, techno-economic feasibility, models and modeling tools, and a detailed life-cycle assessment approach in solid waste (SW) and wastewater (WW). These innovative technologies are highly applicable to current real-world situations. The enormous increase in the quantum and diversity of SW and WW - including waste materials generated due to human activity and their potentially harmful effects on the environment and public health - have led to increasing awareness about an urgent need to adopt novel technologies for appropriate management of both SW and WW.

While there is an obvious need to minimize the generation of wastes and to reuse and recycle them, the technologies for managing such wastes can play a vital role in mitigating problems. Besides recovery of substantial energy, these technologies can lead to a considerable reduction in the overall waste quantities requiring final disposal, which can be better managed for safe disposal in a controlled manner while meeting pollution control standards.

1. Solid Waste and Wastewater Management: A Social and Global Perspective
2. Traditional Solid Waste Treatment Technologies
3. Conventional Wastewater Treatment Technologies: An Overview
4. New Generation Technologies for Solid Waste Management
5. Advanced Biological Wastewater Treatment
6. Design Principles in Water Reclamation for Good Water Quality
7. Energy Recovery from Food and Agricultural Solid Wastes
8. Recovery of Value-added Materials from Wastewater
9. Landfill Mining
10. Challenges and Opportunities Associated with Solid Waste Management
11. Challenges and Opportunities Associated with Wastewater Treatment System
12. Life-Cycle Assessment of Solid Waste and Wastewater Treatment Processes
13. Wastewater Treatment Systems and Power Generation
14. System Optimization models for Solid Waste Management
15. Modeling and Optimization of Wastewater Treatment Processes
16. Economic Evaluation of Solid Waste and Wastewater Treatment Processes

Subject Areas: Biochemical engineering [TC]