
Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Advances in Composting and Vermicomposting Technology
- 1st Edition - September 6, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Ashok Pandey, Mukesh Kumar Awasthi, Zengqiang Zhang
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 8 7 4 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 5 0 4 - 8
Composting and vermicomposting are widely used biological processes for the management of the wastes produced by the communities and agricultural activities, which have experienced… Read more
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- First book on the use of composting technology for process development within organic waste recycling and management
- Critically discusses development of industrial composting processes and market demand of compost as cleaner products
- Includes industrial application of cleaner composting technology towards valorization of high value of compost
- Provides recent knowledge on research and applications by integration of sustainable cleaner composting technologies
2. Vermicomposting technology for organic waste management
3. Design and operation of aeration devices for composting and vermi-composting
4. Composting systems and mature end-products production
5. Modeling and optimization of composting technology
6. Role of biochar and bulking agents and additive on composting
7. Global warming potential of N2O emission and mitigation strategies via composting
8. Design principles of sustainable composting and recovery of value-added products from compost
9. Role of microbes and microbial dynamics during composting
10. Composting of antibiotic residues
11. Challenges and opportunities associated with composting and end-product applications
12. Life-cycle assessment in composting technology
13. Economic evaluation of composting/vermi-composing technologies
14. Business models of composting for a circular economy
15. Enabling environment sanitation and financing by composting technologies
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 6, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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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.
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Mukesh Kumar Awasthi
Dr. Mukesh Kumar Awasthi has done his Ph.D. on the topic “Viscous Correction for the Potential Flow Analysis of Capillary and Kelvin-Helmholtz instability”. He is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow. Dr. Awasthi is specialized in the mathematical modeling of flow problems. He has taught courses of Fluid Mechanics, Discrete Mathematics, Partial differential equations, Abstract Algebra, Mathematical Methods, and Measure theory to postgraduate students. He has acquired excellent knowledge in the mathematical modeling of flow problems and he can solve these problems analytically as well as numerically. He has a good grasp of the subjects like viscous potential flow, electro-hydrodynamics, magneto-hydrodynamics, heat, and mass transfer. He has excellent communication skills and leadership qualities. He is self-motivated and responds to suggestions in a more convincing manner. Dr. Awasthi has qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted on all India level in the year 2008 by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and got Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) for doing research. He has published 125 plus research publications (journal articles/books/book chapters/conference articles) in Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Emerald, World Scientific, and many other national and international journals and conferences. Also, he has published 14 books. He has attended many symposia, workshops, and conferences in mathematics as well as fluid mechanics. He has got the “Research Awards” consecutively four times from 2013-2016 by the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. He has also received the start-up research fund for his project “Nonlinear study of the interface in multilayer fluid system” from UGC, New Delhi. He is also listed in the top 2% influential researchers in the World prepared by Stanford University based on Scopus data in the years 2022 and 2023. His Orcid is 0000-0002-6706-5226, Google Scholar web link is https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=Dj3ktGAAAAAJ and research gate web link ishttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mukesh-Awasthi-2.
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