Sivasubramanian - Environmental sustainability using green technologies

Environmental Sustainability Using Green Technologies

Environmental Sustainability Using Green Technologies

Edited by V. Sivasubramanian

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Contents

RAJA SIVASHANKAR, ARUNACHALAM BOSE SATHYA, AND VELMURUGAN SIVASUBRAMANIAN

KURAVAPPULLAM VEDAIYAN RADHA AND PANDIYAN THYRIYALAKSHMI

SAHADEVAN RENGANATHAN, GEORGE PHILOMIN DOSS GEOPRINCY, AND PATCHAIMUTHU KALAINILA

SAHADEVAN RENGANATHAN, BHARGAVI GUNTURU, AND DHARMENDIRA KUMAR MAHENDRADAS

M. JEROLD, C. VIGNESHWARAN, A. SURENDHAR, B.G. PRAKASH KUMAR, AND VELMURUGAN SIVASUBRAMANIAN

S. RAMACHANDRAN, P. SANKAR GANESH, VELMURUGAN SIVASUBRAMANIAN, AND B.G. PRAKASH KUMAR

K. VASANTHARAJ, RAJA SIVASHANKAR, C. VIGNESHWARAN, AND VELMURUGAN SIVASUBRAMANIAN

J. KANIMOZHI, ARUNACHALAM BOSE SATHYA, ANANT ACHARY, AND VELMURUGAN SIVASUBRAMANIAN

SAHADEVAN RENGANATHAN, SARAVANAN PANNEERSELVAM, BASKAR GURUNATHAN, VIJAY MANI, AND SHYAMASUNDARI MURUGAN

C. VIGNESHWARAN, K. VASANTHARAJ, M. JEROLD, AND VELMURUGAN SIVASUBRAMANIAN

ARUNACHALAM BOSE SATHYA, RAJA SIVASHANKAR, VELMURUGAN SIVASUBRAMANIAN, J. KANIMOZHI AND AROCKIASAMY SANTHIAGU

D. VIDHYESWARI, A. SURENDHAR, M. JEROLD, S. BHUVANESHWARI, AND VELMURUGAN SIVASUBRAMANIAN

UMA KRISHNAKUMAR AND VELMURUGAN SIVASUBRAMANIAN

SAHADEVAN RENGANATHAN, RAMACHANDRAN KASIRAJAN, AND THERESA VEERANAN

VELMURUGAN SIVASUBRAMANIAN, BALAKRISHNAN VINOTHRAJ, VEERAPADARAN VELUMANI, AND KRISHNAN MANIGANDAN

N. ANU AND N. SELVARAJU

Sustainability is balancing environmental protection and social responsibility with a healthy economy over time. Green engineering and chemistry play an important role in creating the options that enable sustainability by developing chemicals, processes, value-added products, and systems that are environmentally preferable, more energy and resource-efficient, and often more cost-effective. Achieving sustainable economic growth will require changes in industrial processes, in the type and amount of resources used, and in the products that are manufactured. The world must move to a more energy-efficient society by using resources more responsibly and organizing industrial processes in ways that minimize and reuse wastes. Sustainable chemical processes are dealing with the problems of waste, inefficiencies in processes, and adopting the life-cycle approach to process and product development. Sustainability is an action-oriented variant of sustainable development. It is needed to develop the ability to make a choice that respects the relationship between the three Es: economy, ecology, and equality. If all the three Es were incorporated in the national goals of countries, then it would be possible to develop a sustainable society.

There are tremendous challenges when man moves toward sustainable development but fails to use the necessary tools to overcome the challenges. It is our duty to adapt the nature and not vice versa. The flora and fauna of ecosystems are being seriously threatened by the impact of human activities. Environmental sustainability is about making responsible decisions that will reduce our negative business impact on the environment. It is not simply about reducing the amount of waste produced or using less energy, but is concerned with developing processes that will lead to businesses becoming completely sustainable in the future. Hopefully, it would reduce the burden on the earth.

This book, Environmental Sustainability Using Green Technologies, aims to provide comprehensive coverage on emerging dimensions on environmental sustainability. It contains 16 articles by eminent experts on different aspects of the subject. Articles on wastewater treatment technologies, nanomaterials in environmental applications, green synthesis of ecofriendly nanoparticles, the role of phytoremediation in maintaining environmental sustainability, algal biosorption of heavy metals, mass production of microalgae for industrial applications, an integrated biological system for the treatment of sulfate rich wastewater, anaerobic digestion of pharmaceutical effluent, treatment of textile dye using bioaccumulation techniques, production of biosurfactants and their applications in bioremediation, biodegradable polymers, microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology, biodiesel from nonedible oil using a packed-bed membrane reactor, production of ecofriendly biodiesel from marine sources, pretreatment techniques for the enhancement of biogas production, and a review of source apportionment of air pollutants by receptor models. The book also covers information on newer biotechnological tools and techniques required for sustainable development. Various aspects covering efficient bioremediation methods have been included to project their importance in the 21st century.

This book can serve not only as an excellent reference material, but also as a practical guide for professors, research scholars, industrialists, biotechnologists, and workers in the applied field of environmental engineering.

Velmurugan Sivasubramanian

Velmurugan Sivasubramanian is an associate professor and former head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at National Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC), in Kozhikode, India. He worked at Tamil Nadu Industrial Explosives Ltd. as a senior plant engineer for five years after his graduation. Since 2001, he has been teaching fluidization engineering, environmental engineering, wastewater engineering, energy management, safety and hazards control, principles of chemical engineering, operations management, total quality management for master of technology degree in chemical engineering, petroleum refining and petrochemicals, pharmaceutical technology and environmental science and engineering; chemical reaction engineering, mechanical operations, mass transfer, chemical technology, environmental studies, safety in chemical process industries, energy management, process economics and industrial management, petrochemicals, downstream processing/bioseparations and operations research for a bachelor of technology in chemical engineering and biotechnology; and bioreactor engineering, fluidization engineering, biological wastewater treatment, environmental biotechnology, safety management in process industries, fire engineering and explosion control, and fire modeling and dynamics for the doctoral program.