Wealth from waste, Third Edition

This edition of Wealth from Waste takes a closer look at the different avenues that consider waste a resource for recycling and valorization rather than contemplating its disposal. The book provides insight into the possible technological innovations and options that can be adopted, along with the current trends and opportunities that are available worldwide for converting waste into value-added resources. In the individual chapters, authors have discussed and reviewed the possible options for conversion of various waste streams generated from municipalities and other urban establishments and biomass-based waste generated from argo-based industries and different industrial activities into an energy resource. The book also looks into the regulatory framework available in the country, which is required at every stage of the life cycle of waste, and the needs for improvement of this framework.

This edition will serve as an important reference for a wide range of stakeholders from policy-makers to environmentalists, development practitioners, academicians, waste management experts, researchers, and corporate decision-makers.

Key Features:

• Wealth from waste: trends and technologies is an effort to put together the various options available to meet the waste management requirements.
• Articles included in this book aim to not only promote the concept and technologies, but also highlight the tremendous business potential that well-placed systems of waste management can offer.
• This book would also provide pointers to innovations and research directions, which could be undertaken in the future.
• Wealth from waste is a must-read for policy-makers in the developing countries, governments, environmentalists, development practitioners, researchers, waste-management experts, and decision-makers in corporate organizations.

Contents:   

• Biofuels
• Bioethanol production from lignocellulosics: an overview
• Bioethanol: a status review on metabolic pathway modification of certain ethanologenic bacteria through genetic engineering
• Bioethanol production technologies: economics, environmental impact, and policy
• Bio-hydrogen: applications and future prospects
• Methanogenesis from agro-industrial residues: potential and prospects
• Biomass-gasifier-based power plants: potential, problems and research needs for decentralized rural electrification
• Industrial solid waste
• Coal bed methane
• Bioreactors for waste water treatment
• Ceramic membrane filters from waste fly ash and their applications
• Technological options for municipal solid waste management
• Technological trends and opportunities in cogeneration
• Environmental regulations in India for waste management