Waste-to-Wealth

Vinay Yadav is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (West Bengal). He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in Environmental Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay, Mumbai, and his bachelor’s degree from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He is also a recipient of the Award for Excellence in PhD Research for the years 2018–2020 for outstanding research contributions by IIT Bombay. Immediately after his PhD, he worked as the Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark. His expertise include environmental management, optimization under uncertainty and interval analysis-based operations research techniques. Shishir Shrotriya is currently Head, Centre for Maritime Economy & Connectivity (CMEC) at Research & Information System (RIS), New Delhi. During his international assignment he has been Counsellor (S&T) at the Embassy of India, Moscow. He received his PhD and MTech from IIT Delhi. He specializes in communication engineering, maritime technologies and integration. He has varied scientific and project management experience and has worked closely with international and Indian partners. He has worked in areas related to indigenous sea-vessel design & related technologies and has authored many papers on innovation concepts, creative problem-solving and systems integration. He is a member of various science and engineering professional bodies and has vast collaborative project experience with academia, industry, and research institutes. During his current assignment, he is actively involved in working towards the Maritime Amrit Kaal Vision (MAKV) 2047 and Maritime India Vision (MIV) 2030 with research work, stakeholder integration, bilateral multilateral projects and initiatives.

1. Opportunities and Challenges in Resource Recovery from Waste. 2. Best Available Techniques for Organic Livestock Waste Management in Russia. 3. Bioenergy from Organic Waste: Translation of Technology from Laboratory to Land. 4. Cyanobacterial Degradation of Pesticides. 5. Upcycling of Plastic Waste. 6. High-Energy Methane Storage Systems Based on Nanoporous Carbon Adsorbent from Biomass Wastes. 7. Utilization of Plastic Waste in Designing Tiles for Societal Usage – A Step towards Circular Economy. 8. Synthesis of Geopolymer Materials based on Non-ferrous Metallurgy Slag and Fly Ash using Mechanical Activation. 9. Waste to Wealth: Upcycling of Solid Waste Plastics. 10. Recycling of Waste Heat Energy from Engine Exhaust. 11. Use of Conductive Material in the Anaerobic Digestion for Improving Process Performance: A Review. 12. Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis (SHS) Technology for Disposal of Radioactive Waste. 13. Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Fuel, Feed and High-Value Chemicals. 14. Agro-residues Waste to Wealth for Circular Economy and Sustainable Development. 15. Rational Synthetic Approaches to the Promising Molecules and Materials. 16. Hybrid Advanced Oxidation Processes for Treatment of Wastewater from the Pharmaceutical Industry. 17. Social and Economic Impacts of Plastics on the Environment. 18. Modelling of Industrial Wastewater Treatment using Membrane Distillation with Crystallization. 19. Recovery of Precious Metals and Rare Earth Elements from e-Waste. 20. Environmentally Friendly Nanoparticles for use in Agriculture. 21. Reuse of Plastic Waste in Various Systems – A Review.