Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Smart Solutions for Wastewater: Road-mapping the Transition to Circular Economy
- 1st Edition - September 23, 2022
- Editors: Giorgio Mannina, Ashok Pandey, Ranjna Sirohi
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 9 2 0 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 2 8 9 - 1
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Smart Solutions for Wastewater: Road-mapping the Transition to Circular Economy, the latest release in the Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering presents up-to-date information on research and technological developments of resource recovery in wastewater treatment in terms of carbon, nutrients and energy. The book fulfils the gaps and current challenges that hinder the application of resource recovery facilities in wastewater treatment plants, discusses knowledge gaps, provides future research perspectives, and discusses strategies to solve problems from a circular economy perspective. It is an excellent, interdisciplinary and updated overview of technologies in terms of potential yields, pollutants removal, nutrients recovery and energy production.
- Covers different aspects of resource recovery technologies and research gaps in wastewater treatment
- Focuses on different MBR configurations and systems/hybrid systems in treating a large variety of wastewaters
- Provides state-of-the-art technology developments, including technology, advantages and challenges as well as strategies to overcome limitations
- Includes technologies for managing sewage sludge in order to foster solutions for recovering in a circular economy context
PG/PhD students and educators, professional course students, researchers. Policy Makers, Regulators, Water Management Practitioners, wastewater treatment professionals
1. Introduction
2. Sewage sludge from wastewater in a circular economy prospect
3. Polyhydroxyalkanoates production from wastewater organic carbon
4. Production of volatile fatty acids from sewage sludge fermentation
5. Zeolite for the recovery of nutrients from treated wastewater
6. Selecting bulking agent for Sewage sludge composting
7. Advances in technologies for sewage sludge management
8. Energy and valuable product recovery through anaerobic digestion processes
9. Life cycle assessment as a tool for resource recovery facilities in wastewater sector
10. Water reuse in the frame of circular economy: bottleneck, barriers and technological issues
11. Drivers and barriers to wider uptake of water smart solutions
12. Advances in environmental bioprocess technology for an effective transition to a green circular economy
13. Advanced technologies for a smart and integrated control of odour emissions from wastewater treatment plant
14. Microbial biotechnology diverts wastewater treatment to circular economy
15. Biological nutrients recovery from wastewater for circular economy
16. Towards circular economy implementation: the role of stakeholders engagement
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 23, 2022
- Language: English
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Giorgio Mannina
Dr. Giorgio Mannina is Professor of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering at the Engineering Department of Palermo University, Italy. His research interest and focus is on resource recovery from wastewater, advanced wastewater treatments (MBR, MBBR, hybrid processes, IFAS, granular systems, etc.), BNR processes, mathematical modeling, and water quality issues related to integrated urban drainage systems.
Affiliations and expertise
Director of WRRF’lab at Palermo UniversityAP
Ashok Pandey
Prof. Ashok Pandey is currently Executive Director, Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability-India, Lucknow. His major research and technological development interests are industrial and environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels and chemicals, waste to wealth and energy, etc.
Affiliations and expertise
Executive Director, Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability-India, Lucknow, IndiaRS
Ranjna Sirohi
Dr. Ranjna Sirohi is currently working as Research Professor in Korea University, Seoul. She obtained B.Tech. degree in Biochemical Engineering and M.Tech. degree in Agricultural Engineering with specialization in Food Biotechnology Engineering. She has worked as Visiting Researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, as Scientist at Centre for Energy and Environment Sustainability, Lucknow and as Senior Project Associate at CSIR-NEERI, Nagpur. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Process and Food Engineering from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand. Her major research interests are in the field of Bioprocess Technology - Food & Food Waste Valorisation-Waste to Wealth – Biofuels. She has 65 publications/communications that include 32 research and review papers, 12 book chapters, 7 popular articles and 14 conference proceedings.
Dr Sirohi has won several awards and honors that include Research Excellent Award in the international conference on New Horizons in Biotechnology, Trivandrum, India (2019), Best Poster award in 8th International Forum on Industrial Bioprocessing (IBA-IFIBiop 2019), Miri; Sarawak, Malaysia (2019) and Research Excellence Award in International Conference on Bio-Innovation for Environmental and Health Sustainable Developments (BEHSD-2018), Lucknow, India (2018). She is the Life member of Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers (ISAE); the Biotech Research Society, India (BRSI); Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) and Association of Food Scientists & Technologists, India (AFSTI).
Affiliations and expertise
Research Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of KoreaRead Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering on ScienceDirect