Circular Economy and Fly Ash Management

1. Front Matter

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2. Handling and Utilisation of Fly Ash from Thermal Power Plants

   • S. A. Nihalani, Y. D. Mishra, A. R. Meeruty

   Pages 1-11

3. Scope of Fly Ash Application as a Replacement for Chemical Pesticides for Pest Control in Certain Crop Pockets of Neyveli and Virudhachalam Regions in Tamil Nadu, India

   • C. Kathirvelu, Y. Hariprasad, P. Narayanasamy

   Pages 13-25

4. Fly Ash and Its Utilization in Indian Agriculture: Constraints and Opportunities

   • Ch. Srinivasa Rao, C. Subha Lakshmi, Vishal Tripathi, Rama Kant Dubey, Y. Sudha Rani, B. Gangaiah

   Pages 27-46

5. Carbon and Nutrient Sequestration Potential of Coal-Based Fly Ash Zeolites

   • V. Ramesh, James George

   Pages 47-55

6. Pesticidal Activity and Future Scenario of Fly ash Dust and Fly ash-Based Herbal Pesticides in Agriculture, Household, Poultry and Grains in Storage

   • Y. Hariprasad, C. Kathirvelu, P. Narayanasamy

   Pages 57-71

7. Synthesis, Quality Assay and Assessment of Fly Ash-Based Chemical Pesticides for Efficacy against Pests of Crops, Stored Commodities and in Urban Areas

   • R. Ayyasamy, S. Sithanantham, P. Narayanasamy

   Pages 73-93

8. Potential and Futuristics of Fly Ash Nanoparticle Technology in Pest Control in Agriculture and Synthesis of Chemical and Herbal Insecticides Formulations

   • P. Narayanasamy

   Pages 95-107

9. Behaviour of Fly Ash Concrete at High Temperatures

   • A. Venkateswara Rao, K. Srinivasa Rao

   Pages 109-124

10. Effect of Fly Ash on Strength of Concrete

    • A. Venkateswara Rao, K. Srinivasa Rao

    Pages 125-134

11. Potential of Silica Sources Including Fly Ash as Green Technology Inputs to Induce Resistance to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses in Crop Plants: Overview

    • S. Sithanantham, M. Prabakaran, P. Narayanasamy

    Pages 135-144

12. Fly Ash as a Source of Silicon for Mitigating Biotic Stress and Improving Yield and Changes in Biochemical Constituents and Silicon in Rice Under Abiotic Stress

    • P. Balasubramaniam

    Pages 145-160

This book presents a number of innovative uses of fly ash. Fly ash is a fine powder that is a byproduct of burning pulverized coal in thermal power plants. It is a pozzolan – a substance containing aluminous and siliceous material that when mixed with lime and water forms a compound similar to Portland cement. Though fly ash was a problem in terms of its disposal, it now has a variety of uses, such as a prime material in blocks, bricks, and PCC paving, and further applications are being investigated. As such, the recovery and reuse of fly ash wastes plays an important role in the implementation of the circular economy concept. Featuring selected, high-quality research papers presented at IconSWM 2018, the book provides valuable insights for the recycling industries, power plants, researchers, and governments.

• Fly ash Recycling
• Circular Economy
• Pozzolans
• Recycling Industries
• Industry Pollution
• IconSWM
• Fly ash as Building Material
• Fly ash Cement
• Using fly ash
• Fly ash Processing
• industrial pollution prevention
• air pollution and air quality

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

  Sadhan Kumar Ghosh

• Centre for Fly Ash Research and Management, New Delhi, India

  Vimal Kumar

Dr. Sadhan Kumar Ghosh is a Professor & Former Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department and Founder Coordinator of the Centre for QMS at Jadavpur University, India. A prominent figure in the fields of waste management, circular economy, SME sustainability, green manufacturing, green factories, and TQM, he served as the Director, CBWE, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India, and L&T Ltd. Prof Ghosh is also the founder and Chairman of the IconSWM and President of the International Society of Waste Management, Air and Water, as well as the Chairman of the Indian Congress on Quality, Environment, Energy and Safety Management Systems (ICQESMS). He was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, to work on “Energy Recovery from Municipal Solid Waste” in 2012. He received the Boston Pledge and NABC 2006 award for the most eco-friendly innovation “Conversion of plastics & jute waste to wealth” in the ESP/50K Business Plan Competition at Houston, Texas, USA. He holds patents on waste plastics processing technology and high-speed jute ribboning technology preventing water wastage and occupational hazards. He is member of  ISO Working Groups  concerning waste management (ISO/TC 297). His projects have been funded by European Union Horizon 2020 (2018-2022) on waste water, Royal Academy of Engineering (2018-2020 & 2012) on Circular economy in SMEs, Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation (SRNSF) of Georgia (2019-2021) on resource circulation from landfill, GCRF 2019/2020 Pump Priming - Aston Project UK on impact of wellbeing & mental health on productivity & sustainability in Industries, UNCRD/DESA as Expert (2016-2018) on SWM, Asian Productivity Organisation (APO) (2016-2019) on green manufacturing, British Council & DST (2012-2014), Royal Society (2015), Erasmus Plus (2016-17), ISWMAW (2018-21), Indian Statistical Institute (2019-2021), Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES, Japan)(2019), South Asian Cooperation Environmental Programme (SACEP, Sri Lanka)(2018-2020), Jute Technology Mission (2008-2011), Central Pollution Control Board (1999-2002), Govt. of India on plastics waste management and a few others. 
 
Dr. Vimal Kumar is a Mechanical Engineer with distinction from Delhi University (1975), an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India (1977), and a Ph.D. in “Commercialization of New Technologies” from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2001). As the Founder Mission Director, Fly Ash, Department of Science & Technology (DST), he conceived and implemented the Fly Ash Mission and turned around the image of fly ash from “a polluting industrial waste” to “a resource material”. The expertise and technologies of Fly Ash Mission have been requisitioned by Russia, and Dr. Kumar has led the Indian section of the Joint Working Group.

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