Rajesh Kumar Sharma – författare

Sustainable Agricultural Waste Management presents a thorough and forward-looking examination of the multifaceted challenges and opportunities in managing agricultural waste sustainably. The volume guides readers through the ecological, technological, and socio-economic dimensions of agrowaste, from its impact on soil, air, and water to the latest advances in circular economy strategies, biochar, and nanotechnology-driven solutions.Expertly curated chapters address the valorization of agrowaste into bioactive compounds, clean energy, and eco-friendly nanomaterials, while also evaluating economic viability, policy frameworks, and regulatory mechanisms. The book’s integrative approach bridges traditional practices with next-generation innovations, offering actionable insights for immediate application and inspiring future research.This essential resource is designed for advanced students, researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and environmental advocates seeking to drive meaningful changes in agricultural systems worldwide.Showcases emerging rural technologies and grassroots innovations that empower local communities to manage agrowaste efficiently and sustainably.Examines the role of advanced sensing and monitoring techniques, including nanosensors, in optimizing agrowaste recycling and elimination processes.Offers in-depth analysis of co-processing agricultural waste in industrial systems, such as cement kilns, to harmonize ecological goals with industrial productivity.

This book explores sustainable waste management innovations. In resource recovery technologies, it highlights catalytic conversion of solid wastes like biomass and plastics into valuable chemicals, wastewater extraction methods such as acid-leaching for pollutant removal, and reclamation of hazardous residues including fly ash for environmental applications. It addresses toxicity identification and remediation, covering assessments of disinfection by-products and PAHs in soils, pollution source tracking using sensor-GC-MS coupling, and advanced solutions like AI-optimized leachate treatment to mitigate microplastic release. Finally, it applies ecological principles to eco-engineering approaches—such as diatomite-enhanced anaerobic digestion and integrated energy-fertilizer systems—while evaluating urban risks like microplastic-heavy metal interactions in rivers, airborne metal impacts on vegetation, and antibiotic resistance genes in soils for holistic ecosystem restoration.

This book publishes select papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Frontiers in Industrial and Applied Mathematics (FIAM-2021), held at the Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, Punjab, India, from 21–22 December 2021.

This book publishes select papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Frontiers in Industrial and Applied Mathematics (FIAM-2021), held at the Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, Punjab, India, from 21–22 December 2021. Most of the papers deal with mathematical theory embedded with its applications to engineering and sciences. This book illustrates numerical simulation of scientific problems and the state-of-the-art research in industrial and applied mathematics, including various computational and modeling techniques with case studies and concrete examples. Graduate students and researchers, who are interested in real applications of mathematics in the areas of computational and theoretical fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, optimization and operations research, numerical analysis, bio-mathematics, fuzzy, control and systems theory, dynamical systems and nonlinear analysis, algebra and approximation theory, will find the book useful.