Beschreibung
This book will serve as a ready reckoner of contemporary information regarding municipal solid waste landfill biomining, treatment of landfill leachate and heavy metals in a single platform. The academicians, researchers, and students at masters and doctoral levels will be able to understand the current trends in municipal solid waste landfill operations, which will help in augmenting their research. Construction of new landfills requires huge monetary investments, which can be avoided if old landfills were bio-mined for resources and the space can be re-used as new landfills. Landfill leachate is a hazardous waste which needs proper treatment that could generate value-added products such as clean energy and biofertilizers. In this book, each chapter would provide the background, methodology, and relevant calculations for sustaining landfill operations. Also, the case studies based on best practices in municipal solid waste landfilling are discussed in this book.
Autorenporträt
Dr Pankaj Pathak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh. Her research interests include sustainable management of solid waste (MSW, e-waste, and industrial waste), green and clean energy resources, stabilization/solidification of contaminated soil/sediment, geochemistry. She has published several papers in top-ranking SCI journals as well as number of books/book chapters. She also serves as a reviewer for various international journals. Prof. Sankar Ganesh Palani is an Associate Professor of Environmental Biotechnology and the Coordinator of Global Sanitation Graduate School at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. He did his PhD in Environmental Science & Engineering from Pondicherry (Central) University, India and had his post-doctoral training at Institut National des Sciences Appliquees, Toulouse, France. Prof. Ganesh has about 24 years of sandwich experience in academia and industry across SAARC, the Middle East and European countries. Prof. Ganesh has been involved in several academic, translational, and societal projects on solid waste and wastewater treatment, focusing on anaerobic digestion. He has published 2 books, 14 book chapters, and 85 research papers in reputed international and national journals and conferences. Prof. Ganesh is a "Faculty-preneur" being the Director of 'AlMac ProTech' a startup company that has spun off from his research on high-rate thermophilic anaerobic digestion of organic waste.
