Urban Mining for Waste Management and Resource Recovery: Sustainable Approaches

About

Dr. Pankaj Pathak is an Assistant Professor at SRM University Andhra Pradesh India with a keen interest in sustainable waste management green energy resources and geochemistry including sustainable handling of hazardous waste and associated environmental impacts. She has been involved in various research projects viz. waste to resource nuclear waste management and characterization of buffer materials and e-waste management. She has also gained research expe-rience in dealing with hazardous solid and liquid waste treatment technology along with hydrometallurgical recovery of metals from waste streams their safe disposal and remediation techniques. Dr. Prangya Ranjan Rout is presently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology Patiala Punjab India. He also worked as a researcher at INHA University Incheon Republic of Korea from 20182020. He holds an MTech degree in bio-technology and a PhD in environmental engineering. His research interest lies in the domain of anaerobic digestion bioconversion of wastes to wealth emerg-ing contaminant removal membrane technology resource recovery and reuse and wastewater treatment. He has authored over 50 publications including ref-ereed journal articles book chapters national and international conference pre-sentations technical notes and a published patent. Some of the awards he has received include the Odisha Young Scientist Award 2017 Best Practice Oriented Paper 2019 from ASCE-EWRI and Outstanding Reviewer 2019 from ASCE. He is an Associate Editor of theASCE Journal of Hazardous Toxic and Radioactive Wastes and has served as a guest editor of a special issue of the journal. He is also actively involved in editing contributed book volumes for internationally renowned publishers such as CRC Press/Taylor & Francis John Wiley & Sons and ASCE.