Advances in Waste Management

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. Dr. Jiwan Singh is an Assistant Professor at Department of Environmental Science, BBA University, Lucknow. He has done his PhD in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He has worked as visiting scientist at the University of Ulsan, Republic of Korea and as an Assistant Professor at Kwangwoon University, Republic of Korea. He is currently involved in water and wastewater treatment projects sponsored by Government of India. He has published more than 45 international research papers. His research specialization is in wastewater treatment and solid waste management. Dr. K. Dhamodharan is Research Associate at Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG). He did his Masters in Energy and Environmental Engineering from VIT University, India and PhD in Environmental Engineering from IIT Guwahati. His work has received many accolades in both national and international conferences. Dr Dhamodharan’s research interests include anaerobic digestion, waste to energy, renewable technology and integrated solid waste management planning. He is presently serving as reviewer for Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (Elsevier) and Bioresource Technology (Elsevier),  3 Biotech (Springer) and Waste and Biomass Valorization (Springer).

• Section A: Solid waste management.- 1. Earthworm Technology – A Promising Tool for Second Green Revolution.- 2. Recycling of Industrial and Municipal Solid Wastes in Cement Based Applications.- 3. Municipal Solid Waste Collection time optimization using AHP, GMDH and ANN.- 4. Reusing and Recycling of granite slurry in construction industry.- 5. Designing and Utilizing of the Solar Water heater for Digestion of Lignocellulosic Biomass.- 6. Comparison of plant tolerance towards air pollution of rural, urban and mine sites of Jharkhand: a biochemical approach to identify air pollutant sink.- 7. Trend analysis of long-term MSW leachate characteristics.- 8. Experimental Investigation for the Feasible Applications of Processed Recyclable Plastic Waste in Construction Sector.- 9. Estimation of Landfill Gas Using Genetic Programming.- 10. Credibilistic TOPSIS Model for Evaluation and Selection of Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Methods.- 11. Influence of Recycling on the Thermal Properties of Municipal Solid Waste.- 12. Enzymatic Application in Anaerobic Digestion (AD) of Organic Fraction of the Municipal Solid waste (OFMSW).- 13. Significance of Presence of Asbestos in Construction and Demolition Wastes in India.- 14. Development of GIS-based optimization method for selection of transportation routes in municipal solid waste management.- 15. Investigating the Effect of Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Poultry Manure with Lawn Grass Cuttings.- 16. Agricultural waste utilization in sustainable and resilient construction.- 17. Performance Evaluation of Low Cost Microbial Fuel Cell Employing Clayware Separator of Different Thickness.- 18. Characterization and Disposal of Ashes from Biomedical Waste Incinerator.- 19. Prospects of utilization of liquid fraction of biogas digestate as substrate supplement for mushroom cultivation.- 20. Characterization of Market Solid Waste at Source in Kolhapur city, Maharashtra, India.- 21. Utilization of thermal power plant by- product fly ash in waste management.- 22. Assessment of bio-medical waste management in different hospitals in Aligarh City.- 23. Extraction of Cu and Zn from High Grade Printed Circuit Board Scraps by Conventional and Hybrid Bioleaching.- 24. High energy absorbent sustainable concrete element from used tin cans.- 25. Analyzing the Strength Behavior of Cement Composites with Waste Glass Fibers.- Section B: Water and wastewater treatments and other environmental concerns.- 26. Electrochemical degradation of Reactive Red-195 and Reactive Yellow-81 in continuous flow reactor.- 27. Utilization of Water Treatment Plant (WTP) Sludge for Pretreatment of Dye Wastewater Using Coagulation/ Flocculation.- 28. Surface Water Quality Modeling by Regression Analysis and Artificial Neural Network.- 29. Removal of fluoride from groundwater by adsorption onto Brick Powder-Alum-Calcium infused adsorbent.- 30. Trihalomethanes Occurrence in Chlorinated Treated Effluents at Sewage Treatment Plants of North-Indian Region.- 31. Layout optimization of sewer network using minimum cumulative flow in the sewer network.- 32. Improving the hydrophilicity of polysulfone membrane by the addition of imidazol with polyvinyl pyrrolidone for crystal violet dye removal.- 33. Effectiveness study of dolochar as a filter media in wastewater filtration.- 34. Bio-inspired facile and green synthesis of Au@Ag@AgCl nanoparticles using Benincasa hispida peel extract and their photocatalytic activity for theremoval of toxic dye under solar irradiation.- 35. Biochemical changes in Lantana camara and Ipomoea aquatica growing in the fly ash amended soil.- 36. Integrated Water Hyacinth Control and Waste Management Plan: A Case of Futala Lake, Nagpur.- 37. Significance of Addressing Persistence of Pathogens and Micropollutants to Enhance Reuse of Treated Sewages Using Constructed Wetlands.- 38. A Review on GIS-Based Approach for Road Traffic Noise Mapping.- 39. A Review on Nitration Process.- 40. Emissions Associated with the Transportation of Municipal Solid Waste in Mumbai.