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Waste-to-Energy Approaches Towards Zero Waste

Interdisciplinary Methods of Controlling Waste

  • 1st Edition - November 8, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Sunpreet Singh, Lalit Goswami, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
  • Language: English

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Description

Waste-to-Energy Approaches Towards Zero Waste: Interdisciplinary Methods of Controlling Waste provides a comprehensive overview of the key technologies and approaches to achieve zero waste from energy. The book emphasizes the importance of an integrated approach to waste-to-energy using fundamental concepts and principles, and presents key methods, their applications, and perspectives on future development. The book provides readers with the tools to make key decisions on waste-to-energy projects from zero-waste principles, while incorporating sustainability and life cycle assessments from financial and environmental perspectives.

Waste-to-Energy Approaches Towards Zero Waste: Interdisciplinary Methods of Controlling Waste offers practical guidance on achieving energy with zero waste ideal for researchers and graduate students involved in waste-to-energy and renewable energy, waste remediation, and sustainability.

Key features

  • Provides an integrated approach for waste-to-energy using zero waste concepts
  • Offers decision-making guidance on selecting the most appropriate approach for each project
  • Presents the sustainability and life cycle assessment of WTE technologies on financial and environmental grounds

Readership

Researchers, practitioners, and graduate students interested in waste-to-energy and renewable energy, and environmental engineers interested in waste remediation, energy, and sustainability. Researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Biotechnology, Civil Engineering, Public Health Engineering, and Municipal Engineering

Table of contents

1. Emerging opportunities for waste reuse and waste-to-energy conversion

2. Waste-to-energy incineration: Major developments in combustion technology

3. Waste to energy for better management of municipal solid waste

4. Waste-to-Energy (WTE) technologies for Sustainability targets

5. Life Cycle Assessment of Energy and Energy Carriers from Waste

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 8, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Sunpreet Singh

Sunpreet Singh is researcher in NUS Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNNI). He has received Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, India. He has contributed extensively in additive manufacturing literature with publications appearing in Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Composite Part: B, Rapid Prototyping Journal, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, Measurement, International Journal of Advance Manufacturing Technology, and Journal of Cleaner Production. He has authored more than 150+ research papers and book chapters. He is also editor of 3 books- "Current Trends in Bio-manufacturing", “3D Printing in Biomedical Engineering”, and "Biomaterials in Orthopaedics and Bone Regeneration - Design and Synthesis". He is also guest editor of several journals- special issue of “Functional Materials and Advanced Manufacturing”, Facta Universitatis, series: Mechanical Engineering (Scopus Indexed), Materials Science Forum (Scopus Indexed), and special issue on “Metrology in Materials and Advanced Manufacturing”, Measurement and Control (SCI indexed), Materials, Sustainability (MDPI).
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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Lalit Goswami

Lalit Goswami, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea. He has received his Ph.D. in Environment from Centre for the Environment, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India. He has a specialization in environmental biotechnology, biodiesel production, bio-inspired carbonaceous nano-materials, membrane separation, and bioreactors. His current research involves industrial wastewater treatment, micropollutant, biofuels, downstream processing, resource recovery, bio-inspired materials, hydrogeochemistry. Dr. Goswami is the author of several articles published in peer-reviewed journals, many book chapters and three books in his research areas published in Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, Springer and American Society for Civil Engineers, etc.
Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral Researcher, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea

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Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain

Prof. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, PhD, is an adjunct professor and director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, United States. His research focuses on sustainability, the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry and other various industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor of around 200 books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas. He has published with ELSEVIER, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, CRC Press, and Springer.

Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor and Director of Chemistry & EVSC Labs, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA

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