Wealth from waste: trends and technologies (Second edition)
- Author(s): Banwari Lal
- Size: 200 mm × 250 mm
- Pages: 495
- Binding: Hardback
- Language: English
- ISBN: 81-7993-067-X
- Cover Price:
Rs.750.00 / US $49.00
- Special Price: Rs. 675.00 / US $45.00
Book Details
Rapid urbanization and industrialization in India visibly spell the need to put in place effective and efficient systems for disposal of the waste generated—municipal solid waste, agro-industrial waste, plastic, waste water, and so on. As in other Asian countries, in India too, landfills, groundwater pollution, residues produced by agro-industrial processes, and other similar problems pose a threat. It is estimated that methanogenic anaerobic digestion releases over 250 million tonnes of methane gas annually all over the world—methane is a substantial contributor to global warming.
These facts compel us to take a closer look at the need to recycle waste rather than simply find ways to dispose of it. At a time when the world is confronted with the twin challenges of fossil-fuel depletion and environmental degradation, the book emphasizes how addressing the latter could contribute to mitigating the former by addressing the issues of generating energy from waste, describing scientific methods to minimize its hazardous impacts, providing an assessment of the existing technologies, and highlighting various aspects of biofuel production and cogeneration.
Wealth from waste is a must-read for policy-makers in the developing-countries, environmentalists, development practitioners, researchers, waste management experts, and decision-makers in corporate organizations.
Table of Contents
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Preface
Biomass gasifier-based power plants: potential, problems, and
research needs for decentralized rural electrification
Sanjay Mande
Biofuels
Avinash K Agarwal
Bio-hydrogen: technology status and future prospects
Jae-Ho Bae, Nirmala Bardiya, and M R V Prasada Reddy
Technological options for municipal solid waste management
R Johri and K V Rajeshwari
Industrial solid waste
Suneel Pandey
Technological trends and opportunities in cogeneration
Pradeep K Dadhich
Bioethanol: a status review on metabolic pathway modification
of certain ethanologenic bacteria through genetic engineering
M R V Prasada Reddy, B Lal, and H Sonali
Methanogenesis from agro-industrial residues: potential and prospects
Deepak Somayaji
Utilization of agricultural wastes / by-products in treatment
of water and waste water
M C Somasekhara Reddy
Industrial effluents: bioreactors for treatment of wastes
K Ramasamy and P Doraisamy
Bioethanol production technologies: economics, environmental
impact, and policy issues
K L Kadam
Environmental regulations in India for waste management
Sandeep Shrivastava
Index
Keywords
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