Sustainable Waste Management Practices, Volume 1 Sustainable Waste Management with Special Focus on Circular Economy

This book is a proceedings of “International Conference on Environmental Science and Engineering” held in Surat during December 2024. The theme of the conference includes Pollution Modeling Sustainable Development and SDGs Climate Chemistry and Climate Change Environmental, Social and Governance Waste Characterization and Treatment Circular Economy and Environmental Impacts Control Strategies for Water, Waste, Air and Noise Application of AI/ML in Environmental Engineering Air, Water and Noise—Quality Monitoring and Measurement Techniques.

A Comparative Analysis of Extractants for the Removal of Heavy Metals from Artificially Contaminated Clayey Soil.- Utilizing Natural Coagulants to Reduce Turbidity in Vehicle Wash Wastewater: A Sustainable Approach.- Drinking Water Production through Improved and Modified Indigenous Household Filters Using Surface Waters.- Photocatalytic Degradation of Methylene Blue Using UiO-66: Synthesis, Characterization, and Performance Evaluation.- Reviewing the Electroplating Industrial Effluent Treatment Techniques.- Sustainable Removal of Hexavalent Chromium from Wastewater Using Banana Peel Powder: An Eco-Friendly Adsorption Approach.- Photocatalytic Degradation of Eriochrome Black-T Dye Using TiO2 Nanoparticles.- Treatment of Textile Dye Wastewater with Sono-Electrocoagulation Method.- Degradation of Organics in Stabilized Landfill Leachate by SR-AOP Using Heterogeneous Flyash-Supported Magnetite Catalyst.- Role of Artificial Intelligence in Enhancing Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).- Developing a Pollution Assessment Model for East Flowing Rivers of Deccan Volcanic Province of India.- Temporal Changes in Rainfall Patterns in Rajasthan’s Thar Desert: Insights from Statistical Homogeneity Tests.- Analysis and Design of Rural Water Supply Network: Mouje Sangaon Village, Maharashtra.- Quantification and Characterization of Automobile Induced Contaminants in the Himalayan River Water and Sediments.- Climate Change-Induced Flood Inundation Mapping Using H and H Models of Machhu River Basin.

M. Mansoor Ahammed is currently a professor of Environmental Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbai National Institute of Technology Surat, India. He obtained his Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering from Government Engineering College, Thrissur, and M.Tech. and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His major areas of research interests include household water treatment, wastewater treatment and reuse, anaerobic treatment processes and use of waste materials in environmental engineering applications. He has published more than fifty papers in high impact journals. He has guided five Ph.D. students and forty M.Tech. students. He was principal investigator for three research projects sponsored by different government agencies.

Mukesh Khare is currently a professor emeritus in Environmental Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from University of Roorkee and Ph.D. from University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. He is leading the colleagues in Environmental Engineering Group in its commitment to make a major contribution to the academic development of IIT Delhi, and in furthering its national and international status as a great institute since he joined in 1990. Khare is a distinguished Civil/Environmental Engineer, with broad industrial experience in the air and water sectors, manifest in a strong portfolio of interdisciplinary research and more than 250 research publications in the refereed open literature.