Butterworth-Heinemann Industrial and Municipal Sludge: Emerging Concerns and Scope for Resource Recovery

Sludge is an expensive and problematic byproduct of the wastewater treatment process. While there are numerous treatment options, most were developed over a century ago. Industrial and Municipal Sludge: Emerging Concerns and Scope for Resource Recovery latest technologies and techniques to design and optimize sustainable sludge treatment processes and recovery operations.Divided into four sections, Industrial and Municipal Sludge: Emerging Concerns and Scope for Resource Recovery begins with a characterization of the various types of sludge, their sources and management strategies. This is followed by five sections speaking to issues and technologies for recovery such as: Emerging contaminants in sludge (Endocrine disruptors, Pesticides and Pharmaceutical residues, including illicit drugs/controlled substances); Bioleaching of sludge [with an enriched sulfur-oxidizing bacterial community; Recovery of valuable metals from sludge (Bioleaching and use of sulfur-oxidizing bacterial community; Biogas production by continuous thermal hydrolysis and thermohilic anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge. In addition, the book includes numerous tables & flow diagrams are included to help comprehend the subject. Includes numerous tables and flow diagrams to assist in the comprehension of new and existing sludge treatments and resource recovery technology Covers biogas production by continuous thermal hydrolysis and thermophilic anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge Presents information on the recovery of valuable metals from sludge (bioleaching and the use of a sulfur-oxidizing bacterial community) Includes opportunities and challenges in the biorefinery-based valorization of pulp and paper sludge Review Contains the latest information on industrial and municipal sludge and its management and recovery About the Author He received an MSc in Botany from Andhra University, Waltair, 1973–75 and a PhD (Botany) from Lucknow University, Lucknow, 1975–79 (research conducted at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India). He worked as a lecturer, June 1980–85in the Department of Botany, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. Later he moved to the University of Hyderabad as a senior-scale lecturer, July 1986–90, and as a reader, February 1990–98, and Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences 1998-2018. He has made significant contributions to the field of plant–metal interactions and bioremediation. He has contributed 205research articles in peer reviewed journals, 18 books (as author, coauthor, editor, and coeditor) by international publishers, and has earned ∼ 13,200 Google Scholar citations with an h-index of 58. Professor Prasad was the recipient of the Pitamber Pant National Environment Fellowship for the year 2007 awarded by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India, the Professor K.S. Bilgrami memorial award for the year 2015 by the Society for Plant Research, India, and the NSERC foreign researcher award. He is also a visiting professor at vari-ous universities, namely, University of Québec Canada, 1994; NSERC foreign researcher awardee, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 1996; Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Stockholm University, Institute of Botany, Sweden, 2000; University of Oulu, Oulu, by the Finnish Academy, Finland, 2002; University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 2005; Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Botany Department, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2006; Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia; Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Gent, Belgium, 2011; Mahasarakham University, Thailand, 2013–14; and University of Santa Cruz, Ilhéus-Bahia Brazil, 2015. The government of India deputed Professor Prasad to the Asian Institute of Technology,