Waste to Wealth

Surajbhan Sevda is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India. Prior to this, he was a technical officer (research scientist) at IIT Guwahati, India. He completed his Doctoral Degree in 2013 from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. He was a visiting scientist at University of Calgary, Canada in 2018. His research experience lies in the bioreactor design, modelling of microbial growth, biofuels, and bioenergy, life cycle analysis (LCA), metal recovery, biosensor development, green chemistry, microbial electrosynthesis, enzyme and antibiotic production.Pradeep Verma is currently the Group Leader at the Bioprocess and Bioenergy Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, at the School of Life Sciences in Central University of Rajasthan (CURAJ). He is a distinguished fellow of several professional organizations, including the Mycological Society of India (MSI Fellow, 2020), the Biotechnological Research Society of India (BRSI Fellow, 2021), and the Association of Microbiological Sciences, India (AMSc, AMI, India, Fellow, 2021). He is the recipient of the Prof. P.C. Jain Memorial Award, by the Mycological Society of India (PCJ-Memorial Award, 2021) and also the recipient of the Ron Cockcroft Travel Award by the Swedish Society, Sweden (2005) In addition, he received the Bridge Fellow JSPS Award in 2022 and conducted joint research work at Kyoto University in Japan. Recently, he was also nominated as a fellow of the International Academy of Wood Sciences (IAWS Fellow 2024), Fellow of the National Academy of Biological Sciences (NABS Fellow 2023) and Fellow of the Association of Fungal Biologist (AFB Fellow 2023). His areas of expertise include microbial diversity, bioremediation, bioprocess development, lignocellulosic, and algal biomass-based biorefineries. He holds several national and international patents in the field of microwave-assisted biomass pretreatment and bio-butanol production.

• 1. Metal Pollution to Resource Recovery: A Sustainable Approach to Wastewater Management2. Types of Metal Contaminants and Sources3. Fate and Transport of Metals in Wastewater Systems4. Unlocking Value from Wastewater: The Science of Metal Extraction5. Metal Recovery Technologies: Precipitation and Coagulation Methods6. Metal Recovery Technologies: Ion Exchange and Adsorption Techniques7. Metal Recovery Technologies: Membrane Separation for Metal Removal8. Metal Recovery Technologies: Electrochemical and Electromembrane Processes9. Biological Innovations in Metal Recovery: Bioleaching and Microbial Biotechnologies10. Innovative Approaches for Metal Recovery: Bioelectrochemical System11. Unlocking Resource Potential: Metal Recovery from Urban Wastewater and Industrial Effluents12. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Metal Recovery Processes13. Linking Metal Recovery to Circular Economic Principles14. Global Frameworks for Metal Recovery: Regulations and Sustainability15. Strategic Industrial Integration of Eco-Friendly Metal Recovery from Wastewater16. Techno-Economic Assessment of Metal Recovery Technologies: Costs, Benefits, and Scalability17. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Metal Recovery Systems: Environmental Impacts and Sustainability Metrics