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Author:   Debashish Sengupta ,  Sudha Agrahari
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2017
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   4.026kg
ISBN:  

9789811024092

ISBN 10:   981102409
Pages:   171
Publication Date:   20 January 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Chapter 1. Radioactive Waste Disposal of Medical Waste.- Chapter 2. Heavy Metal/Radionuclide Contaminant Migration in the Vicinity of Thermal Power Plants: Monitoring, Remediation and Utilization.- Chapter 3. Legislative Framework for Solid Waste Management in India and USA.- Chapter 4. A Review of Solid Waste Management Models: Prediction, Optimization and Cost.- Chapter 5. Shale Gas: Hydrofracking, its Effects and Possible Remediation.- Chapter 6. Characterization and Motoring of Solid Waste Disposal Sites Using Geophysical Methods: Current Applications and Novel Trends.- Chapter 7. Uranium Resource Development and Sustainability – Indian Case Study.- Chapter 8. Recent Trends in Management of Hazardous Waste.- Chapter 9. The Change from Aerobic to Anaerobic Landfilling and the Increase of Correspondent Emissions and Expenses.- Chapter 10. Microbial Fuel Cells in Solid Waste Valorization: Trends and Applications. 

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Dr. Debashish Sengupta is a Professor, Higher Administrative Grade and Ex-Head of the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. Dr. Sengupta completed his Ph.D. in Applied Geophysics in 1987, and has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience. His areas of interests are Nuclear Geophysics including petroleum logging using subsurface nuclear data, Radioactive Methods and Geochronology, Radon Emanometry and its applications, Applications of Isotopes and Radionuclides in Earth and Environmental Geosciences, Heat flow and Geothermics. Dr. Sengupta has authored more than 90 research publications in International Journals and more than 50 papers in Conference Proceedings, in addition to a large number of Invited Talks delivered both in India and abroad. His research work has been seminal and resulted in the formulation of Environmental Regulation policies in various countries of Asia, North and South America and the European Union. Dr. Sengupta had also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and a Senior Visiting Professor at the University of Salamanca, Spain. He received the Society of Geoscientists and Allied Technologists (SGAT’s) Award of Excellence in Earth Sciences for the year 2003. To date, 10 students have been awarded PhD degrees under his supervision. Dr. Sudha Agrahari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. She completed her PhD in 2010, followed by three years of post-doctoral research experience in the field of helicopter-borne Electromagnetics at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research interests include Unconventional Energy Resources, Study of Joint Inversion of Electrical and Electromagnetic Methods for Environmental Applications, and Modeling and Simulation of Geophysical Data. She has disseminated her research through publications in international journals and book chapters.

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