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Recent Developments in Waste Management

Select Proceedings of Recycle 2018

  • Focuses on sustainable waste utilization and recycling of waste products
  • Describes advanced technologies and ecofriendly approaches to deal with wastes and pollutants
  • Special emphasis on biological treatment of solid and wet waste

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (LNCE, volume 57)

Conference series link(s): RECYCLE: International Conference on Waste Management

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Table of contents (41 papers)

  1. Experimental Investigation of Waste Glass Powder as Filler in Asphalt Concrete Mixes

    • Gaurang Asthana, Jayvant Choudhary, Brind Kumar, Ankit Gupta
    Pages 261-270
  2. Investigation on the Effect of Planting Canna Indica in Two-Stage Vermifilter for Synthetic Dairy Wastewater Treatment

    • Kundan Samal, Rajneesh Singh, Rajesh Roshan Dash, Puspendu Bhunia
    Pages 289-297
  3. Removal of Chromium Using Water Treatment Sludge

    • Toji N. Thomas, M. Mansoor Ahammed
    Pages 299-308
  4. Bioelectricity Generation from Kitchen Waste in a Low-Cost Earthenware Microbial Fuel Cell

    • Vijay Ranjan Dhulipala, Rishi Gurjar, Manaswini Behera
    Pages 309-322
  5. Treatment of Wastewater from Beverage/Soft Drink Industry by Microwave Photolytic Process

    • Anil Swain, Neha Shukla, Neelancherry Remya
    Pages 335-343
  6. Effect of Attrition on Silica Sand as Bed Material in Circulating Fluidized Bed System

    • Prabhansu, Jyoti Bhushan Singh, Prakash Chandra, Malay K. Karmakar, Pradip Kumar Chatterjee
    Pages 359-364
  7. Status of Handling and Management of Lead–Acid Batteries in Five Districts of Punjab (India)

    • Preetinder Kaur, Puneet Pal Singh Cheema, Hardeep Singh Rai
    Pages 365-375
  8. Assessment of Ferrous Slag with Relevance to Physico-chemical Properties

    • M. S. Anjali, M. Poorani, S. Shrihari, B. M. Sunil
    Pages 377-384
  9. Analysis of E-Waste Ceramics as a Fine Aggregate for Rigid Pavements for Replacement of M-Sand and River Sand

    • B. R. Vinod, Rajesh Gopinath, Suhas Prasad, H. M. Kavitha, Mukund Mohta, Ahan Ganapathy
    Pages 385-396
  10. Insight into a Waste Material-Based Bioreactor for Nutrient Removal from Domestic Wastewater

    • Prangya Ranjan Rout, Rajesh Roshan Dash, Puspendu Bhunia
    Pages 397-407
  11. Incorporation of Earthworms and Dolochar in Biofilter: An Attempt Towards Maximizing Nutrients Removal

    • Rajneesh Singh, Kundan Samal, Puspendu Bhunia, Rajesh Roshan Dash
    Pages 409-415
  12. Solid Waste Generation Data Variability in India—An Unnoticed Hurdle

    • Renu Hujare, Kashinath Telsang
    Pages 435-459
  13. Influence of Recycling on the Incinerability of Municipal Solid Waste

    • Roshni Mary Sebastian, Dinesh Kumar, Babu J. Alappat
    Pages 461-472
  14. Seasonal and Spatial Variation of DO and BOD for Assessment of the Water Quality of Brahmaputra River

    • Siddhant Dash, Smitom Borah, Kunwar Raghvendra Singh, Ajay S. Kalamdhad
    Pages 473-483

About this book

This volume presents select papers presented during the Second International Conference on Waste Management held at IIT Guwahati. The book comprises of eight sections, and deals with various technologies associated with curbing of different environmental issues as well as management and legislative policies associated with them. This book will be of interest to various researchers, students, policy makers and people who pursue keen interest in the waste management techniques and policies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India

    Ajay S. Kalamdhad

About the editor

Dr. Ajay Kalamdhad is currently working as an Associate Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati. He obtained his Bachelors, Masters and PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from GEC Jabalpur, VNIT Nagpur and IIT Roorkee respectively. Prior to joining IIT Guwahati in 2009, He was an Assistant Professor at VNIT Nagpur and worked in various projects at RRL, Bhopal (Now AMPRI, Bhopal) and NEERI, Nagpur. In addition to his book on rotary drum composting, Dr Kalamdhad has published more than 100 research papers in acclaimed journals and has presented his work in more than 150 national and international conferences/workshops. He is associated with Indian Public Health Engineers, India, International Solid Waste Association Italy and National Solid Waste Association of India; and serves as a reviewer for 20 international journals. He is a recipient of ISTE- GSITS national award for best research by young teachers) of engineering colleges for the year 2012 and IEI Young Engineers Award 2011-2012 in Environmental Engineering discipline from Institute of Engineers India. 


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