Overview
- Describes accurate quantification of major pollutants in various media
- Discusses new real-time detection and analysis tools to facilitate source-apportionment
- Describes novel remedial measures to protect human health from environmental contaminants
Part of the book series: Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (ENENSU)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Swatantra Pratap Singh is an Assistant Professor at IIT Bombay in the Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering. Before this he was a post-doctoral scholar in the Zuckerberg Institute of Water Research at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. He is an environmental engineer with training in pollution control, and has received his Ph.D. and M.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. His research focuses on the low cast membrane-based treatment units for water and wastewater treatment, and the generation of catalytic membranes with high flux and better selectivity and the use nanomaterials to address environmental challenges. He has published 14 articles in reputed journals, 2 book chapters and holds 3 patents.
Dr Prashant Rajput is a CSIR-Senior Research Associate in the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Kanpur. He received his M.Sc. in Chemistry from University of Allahabad and his PhD from Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India. Post to PhD., he has also worked in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Surrey, Guildford, UK; Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India and Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Dr Rajput’s research interests are in atmospheric & aerosol chemistry, air pollution, source apportionment, risk assessment and particles measurement. He has published 30 journal articles and 4 book chapters.
Prof. Avinash Kumar Agarwal joined IIT Kanpur in 2001. He worked at the Engine Research Center, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (1999 – 2001). His interests are IC engines, combustion, alternate and conventional fuels, lubricating oil tribology, optical diagnostics, laser ignition, HCCI, emissions and particulate control, and large bore engines. Prof.Agarwal has published 270+ peer reviewed international journal and conference papers, 35 edited books, and 63 books chapters. He is an associate editor of ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology, and has edited the Handbook of Combustion, Wiley VCH, Germany. Prof. Agarwal is a Fellow of SAE, ASME, NASI, Royal Society of Chemistry, ISEES, and INAE. He has been the recipient of several prestigious awards such as Clarivate Analystics India Citation Award-2017 in Engineering and Technology, NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award-2012; INAE Silver Jubilee Young Engineer Award-2012; Dr. C. V. Raman Young Teachers Award: 2011; SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award -2008; INSA Young Scientist Award-2007; UICT Young Scientist Award-2007; INAE Young Engineer Award-2005. Prof. Agarwal received Prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award-2016 in Engineering Sciences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Measurement, Analysis and Remediation of Environmental Pollutants
Editors: Tarun Gupta, Swatantra Pratap Singh, Prashant Rajput, Avinash Kumar Agarwal
Series Title: Energy, Environment, and Sustainability
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0540-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0539-3Published: 18 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0542-3Published: 18 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-0540-9Published: 08 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2522-8366
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8374
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 474
Topics: Pollution, general, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Environmental Chemistry