Sustainable Treatment and Management of Sewage Sludge

Mukesh Kumar Awasthi is an Associate Professor at the College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, PR China. His major research interests include microbiology, environmental science, biotechnology & bioengineering field. He was awarded with the MoRE 2020-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow - University of Boras, Boras, Sweden. He has over 315 publications, which include 280 papers, three books, and 25 book chapters. Zengqiang Zhang is a Professor at the College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China. His major research interests lie in the areas of environmental microbiology, organic waste composting, bioremediation of heavy metal contaminated soil, wastewater treatment and nutrient recovery, and mitigation of greenhouse gases emission during the organic waste composting, etc. He has more than 335 publications, which include 296 papers, three books, and 25 book chapters. Professor Ashok Pandey is currently a Distinguished Scientist at the Centre for Innovation and Translational Research, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India, and the Executive Director (Honorary) at the Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability – India. He has over 1600 publications, which include 16 patents, 108 books, over 1000 papers, and book chapters.

SECTION I General

Chapter 1 Sewage Sludge Treatment and Management: An Introduction

Xinwei Sun, A.M. Dregulo, Manoj Kumar Solanki, Ashok Pandey, Mukesh Kumar Awasthi

Chapter 2 Global Scenario of Sewage Sludge Management

Parveen Fatema Rupani, Mohammadreza Kamali, Suely Akter, Xianghui Qic, Faisal I. Chowdhury, Hossain M. Zabed

Chapter 3 Ecological and Health Risk Assessment in Heavy Metal Contaminated Soils Irrigated by Sewage

Han Zhang, Ping Wang, Qian Li, Zhaowen Yang, Weilong Wu, Zengqiang Zhang

Chapter 4 Municipal Wastewater Sludge as a Sustainable Bioresource in Developed Countries

Vinay, M Shahbaz Khan, Pooja Ghosh, Vivek Kumar

Chapter 5 Application of Sewage Sludge as an Agricultural Soil Amendment

Yuanyao Ye, Huu Hao Ngo, Wenshan Guo, An Ding, Shihai Deng, Dinh Duc Nguyen, Xuan Thanh Bui

Chapter 6 Sustainable Treatment and Resource Recovery from Sewage Sludge

Bhoomika Yadav, Shraddha Chavan, R.D. Tyagi, Jonathan W.C. Wong, Patrick Drogui

SECTION II Thermochemical Processing of Sewage Sludge

Chapter 7 Thermochemical Processing of Sewage Sludge: Fundamentals and Challenges

A.M. Dregulo

Chapter 8 Pyrolysis of Sewage Sludge

Guo-Rong Ni, Chun-Huo Zhou, Xin Yin, Hua-Jun Huang

Chapter 9 Combustion of Sewage Sludge

Yaru Peng, Yuan Luo, Ken Smith, Ronghua Li

Chapter 10 Hydrothermal Liquefaction and Carbonization for Sustainable Treatment of Sewage Sludge

Ayan Banerjee, Sangeeta Mohanty, Debashish Ghosh, Thallada Bhaskar

Chapter 11 Gasification of Sewage Sludge

Anees Ahmad, Farah Hussain, Muhammad Hassan Javed, Muhammad Ali, Abdul-Sattar Nizami

SECTION III Biological Processing of Sewage Sludge

Chapter 12 Role of Microbes in Sewage Sludge Treatment and Management

Chao Liu, Xiao Xiao, Ting Tang, Chao Li, Jianhong Wei, Binghua Yan

Chapter 13 Emerging Resources Recover Technology: Sustainable Treatment and Management of Sewage Sludge

A. N. Anoopkumar, Mithula Venugopal, Embalil Mathachan Aneesh, Aravind Madhavan, Laya Liz Kuriakose, Parameswaran Binod, Ashok Pandey, Mukesh Kumar Awasthi and Raveendran Sindhu

Chapter 14 Biostabilization of Sewage Sludge

Bridget Signe Price, Carlos Saul Osorio-González, Satinder Kaur Brar

Chapter 15 Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Sewage Sludge

Pooja Sharma, Ambreen Bano, Surendra Pratap Singh

Chapter 16 Bioleaching of Sewage Sludge for Enhanced Dewaterability

Yunbei Li, Lijun Quan, Chunyan Fu, Hailong Li, Yiwen Chen, Wanting Cai

Chapter 17 Detoxification of Sewage Sludge by Natural Attenuation

Ezeah, Chukwunonye, Esonye, Chizoo, Azuama, Onyedikachi Cecil