Trends and Strategies for Pulp and Paper Effluents Treatment

Dr. Saakshy, a PhD and M.Tech graduate in Chemical Engineering from IIT Roorkee, is a Scientist at Kumarappa National Handmade Paper Institute, Jaipur. With over 25 years of experience in teaching, research, and industry, she has guided numerous students and holds three patents. Dr. Saakshy has received prestigious awards for her innovations, including antibacterial cloth from cow dung and specialty paper from banana fiber. She leads the Paper Testing and Environment Laboratory, has authored multiple publications, and is involved in developing training programs and alternative raw materials for handmade paper. She also contributes to standards development for the industry. Suresh Sundaramurthy is the Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and has held postdoctoral, visiting faculty, and research positions at institutions including CUNY (USA), AIT Thailand, JNCASR Bengaluru, IIT Kanpur, and Pondicherry University. His research interests span catalysts, reactor design, environmental biotechnology, waste‑to‑energy, nanoengineered materials, critical minerals, decarbonation, and biofuels, green hydrogen.Dr. Maulin P. Shah is an active researcher and microbial biotechnologist with diverse research interest. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis.

• 1. Status of Pulp and Paper Industry in terms of pollution load, water reuse and climatic change2. Environmental impacts of the paper and pulp industry including its contribution to global warming3. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of key technologies for waste water mitigation and treatment in pulp and paper industry4. Treatment and characterization of effluent at various stages for agricultural residue-based paper industries and its techno-economic feasibility5. Treatment and characterization of effluents at various stages for wastepaper-based paper industries and its techno-economic feasibility6. Treatment and characterization of effluents at various stages for wood-based paper industries and its techno-economic feasibility7. Treatment technologies for wastewater treatment of handmade paper industries8. Latest Promising New Treatment technologies of wastewater for pulp and paper industries9. Application of Artificial Intelligence for treatment of effluent of pulp and paper industry10. Potential of low cost adsorbents for pulp and paper industries11. Feasibility of microbial effluent treatment techniques for pulp and paper industries12. Treatment of pulp and paper wastewater by using membrane bioreactor and moving-bed biofilm reactor and their current state and limitation13. Evaluation and optimization of electrocoagulation for treating Kraft paper mill wastewater14. Comparative bacterial degradation and detoxification of model and Kraft lignin from pulp paper wastewater and its metabolites15. Desalination by pulsed electrodialysis reversal: approaching fully closed-loop water systems in wood pulp mills16. Mass balance of water utilization and wastewater emitted by handmade paper industries17. Valorization of waste streams of pulp and paper industries to improve Circular Economy18. State of art approaches for waste utilization to make value added by products.19. Handling of paper sludge of pulp and paper industries20. Decentralized approach in pulp and paper wastewater treatment using IR 5.0 technological advancement21. Circular economy in pulp and paper wastewater treatment: the expected transition to a balanced interplay of environmental and economic systems22. Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to design and optimize biodegradable Treatment of pulp and paper wastewater23. Machine learning algorithms for predict dynamic mechanism in pulp and paper wastewater24. Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning to develop efficient recycling processes for pulp and paper wastewater25. Policy and Implementing market-based incentives to promote circular economy practices in the pulp and paper wastewater26. Government regulations and policies to support circular economy initiatives from pulp and paper wastewater treatment