Bio Refinery of Wastewater Treatment

Dr. Maulin P. Shah is Chief Scientist and Head of the Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India. His work focuses on the impact of industrial pollution on the microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent analysis. His major work involves isolation, screening, identification, and genetically engineering high-impact microbes for the degradation of hazardous materials. His research interests include biological wastewater treatment, environmental microbiology, biodegradation, bioremediation, and phytoremediation of environmental pollutants from industrial wastewaters. Prof. Angana Sarkar pursued her graduation in Agricultural Engineering from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswasvidyalaya, West Bengal, India, followed by post-graduation in Biotechnology & Biochemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India 2008. Later, she completed her Ph.D. in Environmental Biotechnlogy from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Subsequently she joined National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India in the year 2015 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology & Medical Engineering. Her research area is mainly focused on (i) Pollutant detection using biosensors, (ii) Groundwater bioremediation, (iii) Waste water (domestic and industrial) treatment (iv) Solid waste management by bio-refinery approach to produce environmental waste to value like bioethanol, pigment, biofertilizars etc. and (iv) Hydrocarbon and other organic pollutants degradation.

1. Introduction to waste to value in bio-refinery approach 2. Composition and characterization of diverse wastewater 3. Design and operation of wastewater bio-refinery 4. Assessment of wastewater for future Bio-refinery 5. Sewage water as potential bio-refinery 6. Municipal waste water as potential bio-refinery 7. Industrial waste water as potential bio-refinery 8. Wastewater treatment technologies with prospective bio-refinery 9. Bio-gas as a value generation from waste water 10. Bio-ethanol production as a promising approach of wastewater bio-refinery 11. Bio-diesel production as a promising approach of wastewater bio-refinery 12. Electricity generation during wastewater treatment 13. Nutrient recovery and utilization from wastewater for soil less agriculture 14. Bio prospecting of novel and industrially relevant enzymes 15. Bio-fertilizer from waste water 16. Techno-economic feasibility analysis process for waste water bio-refinery Case studies on recent development of waste water bio-refinery