Waste-to-Wealth

Vinay Yadav is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Visakhapatnam. He earned his master's and doctoral degree from IIT Bombay, Mumbai; and Bachelor’s degree from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He is also a recipient of Award for Excellence in PhD Research for the year 2018-2020 for outstanding research contributions by IIT Bombay. Prior to joining IIM Visakhapatnam, he worked as an Assistant Professor at IIM Jammu and Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark. His expertise includes environmental management, optimization under uncertainty, interval analysis-based operations research techniques and multi-attribute decision making. Shishir Shrotriya is the Counsellor (S&T), Embassy of India, Moscow. He has done his PhD from IIT Delhi and is also a MTech from IIT Delhi. His key specializations include Communication Engineering, Navigation and Sensor Technologies, and Indigenous Technology Development. He has varied scientific and project management experience and has worked closely with International and Indian partners. He has also worked in areas related to enhancing productivity and has authored many papers on innovation concepts and creative problem-solving. He has also worked closely in the domain of Systems Integration. He is a member of various Science and Engineering professional bodies and has collaborated on projects with various Academia, Industry, and Research Institutes. During his current assignment, he has actively brought together researchers from India and Russia on subjects of National Technology priorities and has been a part of Bilateral and Multilateral scientific 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.