Wastewater Resource Recovery and Biological Methods

Dr Pardeep Singh is presently working as Assistant professor (Department of Environmental Studies, PGDAV College, University of Delhi New Delhi India). He obtained his Master’s degree from the Department of Environmental Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He obtained his doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi.  The area of his doctoral research is the degradation of organic pollutants through various indigenous isolated microbes and by using various types of photocatalytic.  He has published more than 65 papers in international journals in the field of waste management and edited more than 45 books. Pramit Verma did his PhD from the Integrative Ecology Laboratory (IEL), Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He has also completed his post-doctorate from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. He has published several research articles and a technical report while participating in various national and international conferences, workshops and seminars. He is currently working on urban sustainability policies and energy efficiency.Dr Ravindra Pratap Singh is currently working as Chief Engineer, Central Public Works Department (CPWD), Govt. of India, with over 25 years of experience in the field of Public Procurement, Project Management, monitoring /implementation of environmental and social safeguards, urban planning, solid waste management, wastewater treatment etc. Ravindra has a special interest in Sustainable Development, especially in sustainable construction. He worked with World Bank on Highway Projects in India and worked with JICA on Japanese Govt. grant aide project at Varanasi. As an expert and member of the heritage conservation committee on the river Ganga, he was associated with the conservation of the river in Varanasi. Along with the engineering profession, he has a keen interest inthe field of academics also. He completed Graduation in the field of Civil Engineering in the year 1989 from Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Post Graduation in Civil Engineering (specialisation in structure engineering) from IIT (BHU) in the academic year 1991-1993 and PhD from the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi India.

• Chapter 1.  Sustainable utilization of wastewater: an overview.- Chapter 2. Productions of Bioenergy from Wastewater.- Chapter 3. Production of Biogas from wastewater.- Chapter 4. Various treatment technology for generation of Biogas.- Chapter 5. Biohydrogen production from wastewater.- Chapter 6. Various treatment technologies for the generation of biohydrogen from sludge and wastewater.- Chapter 7. Lipid biomass to Biodiesel.- Chapter 8. Biopolymers from wastewater.- Chapter 9. Recovery of nutrients from wastewater.- Chapter 10. Recovery of various metals from wastewater.- Chapter 11. Resource recovery from wastewater.- 12. Biofertilizers from wastewater.- Chapter 13. Microbial fuel cell and wastewater treatment.- Chapter 14. Various applications of Sludge as resources.- Chapter 15. Future research on the sustainable utilization of wastewater as resources.- Chapter 16. Aerobic treatment of high-strength ammonium wastewater-nitrogen removal via nitrate.- Chapter 17. Thermophilicaerobic biological wastewater treatment.- Chapter 18. Aerobic treatment of winery wastewater using jet-loop activated sludge reactor.- Chapter 19. Advancements in the application of aerobic granular biomass technology for sustainable treatment of wastewater.