Sustainable Practices in the Textile Industry

The increasing environmental and health concerns owing to the use of large quantities of water and hazardous chemicals in conventional textile finishing processes has lead to the design and development of new dyeing strategies and technologies.

Sustainable Practices in the Textile Industry comprises 13 chapters from various research areas dealing with the application of different sustainable technologies for enhancing the dyeing and comfort properties of textile materials with substantial reduction in wastewater problems. Chapters focus on the sophisticated methods for improving dye extraction and dyeing properties which will minimize the use of bioresource products. This book also brings out the innovative ways of wet chemical processing to alleviate the environmental impacts arising from this sector. This book also discusses innovations in eco-friendly methods for textile wet processes and applications of enzymes in textiles in addition to the advancements in the use of nanotechnology for wastewater remediation.

Luqman Jameel Rather is working as senior visiting scholar at the State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing, P.R. China. He earned his doctorate degree in Organic Chemistry from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India in 2017. He has published about 50 research publications in high impact scientific journals of international repute and has been awarded the Young Scientist Award through the National Agriculture Development Agency, India. His research is focused on functional finishing of textile materials.

Mohd Shabbir joined Wuhan Institute of Technology, School of Chemical Engineering and Pharmacy in September 2019 as a postdoctoral researcher. Prior to that he had been working as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, Sanskriti ­University (Mathura/India), and NIET, greater Noida, India. He obtained his PhD in 2017 from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He has edited two books with the Wiley-­Scrivener imprint.

Aminoddin Haji obtained his PhD from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Textile Engineering, Yazd ­University, Iran. His area of interest is surface modification of textiles; natural and synthetic dyeing of textiles and nanotechnology in textiles and wastewater treatment. He has published more than 50 papers in international journals (ISI and Scopus) and presented more than 50 papers in international conferences.