Overview
- Introduces various advanced/emerging waste-to-resource technologies
- Discusses various wastes generated from residential, industrial, and commercial establishment
- Describes the conversion of wastes to a variety of high-value chemicals and materials
Part of the book series: Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology (GCST)
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Charles Xu is full Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Western University, Fellow of Chemical Institute of Canada (FCIC) and Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE). He was the NSERC/FPInnovations Industrial Research Chair in Forest Biorefinery (2011-2016), acquiring an international reputation in the field of biorefinery, particularly on bio-based chemicals and materials from forestry/ agricultural residues, catalytic conversion of glycerol and sugars into green chemicals, resources recovery from wastewater sludges and microalgae, as well as utilizations of biomass and bioenergy in iron and steel manufacturing processes.He has authored/edited3books on biorefinery, and published 20+book chapters and 230+ papers in peer-reviewed journals and 150+ conference papers/abstracts. In accordance to Google Scholar, his work has received total citationsof over 10,000 with an H-index of 53 to date. He wasthe recipient ofthe 2011 Syncrude Canada Innovation Award and the 2019 Award in Design and Industrial Practice from Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering.
Dr. Madhumita B Ray is a Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, and the Directorof WesternWater Centre, at Western University. Her research areas include development of advanced air, water and wastewater treatment technologies and environmental modelling. Her publications include7 book chapters, 2 patents, 1 license, 210 articles, with an h-index 38, i10 index- 93, and 5153 citations. She has been an executive member of environmental division of the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC), organizing chair for environmental symposia for both CIC and Canadian Society for Chemical Engineers, guest editor for special issues for Environments, Energies, Int. J. of Environmental Technology and Management, Environmental Engineering Science, and in editorial board of Journal of Catalysis and Chemical Engineering Advances and Int. J. of Environmental Research and Public Health. She has been a visiting professor in China, Russia, Ghana, India, and the Netherlands. She received Western Engineering Research Excellence award, and Hilal Distinguished Speaker award of IIChemE,License Agreement Award, Vanguard Awards, 2020 among others.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advanced and Emerging Technologies for Resource Recovery from Wastes
Authors: Laleh Nazari, Chunbao (Charles) Xu, Madhumita B. Ray
Series Title: Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9267-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9266-9Published: 02 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9269-0Published: 02 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-9267-6Published: 01 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2196-6982
Series E-ISSN: 2196-6990
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 207
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Green Chemistry, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Renewable and Green Energy, Environmental Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Sustainable Development