The theme of this book is sustainable e-waste management through effective amalgamation of information and communication technologies (ICT) and green recycling technologies to ensure development of intelligent, smart, and sustainable systems. It encompasses multidisciplinary interventions including recent case studies from OEMs, IT industries as well as E-waste recyclers and explores interdisciplinary research and industry-academia collaborations towards development of smart and sustainable systems for e-waste management.
Features:
- Covers application of smart and intelligent systems for e-waste management.
- Explores recent advancement from the technological aspect - both recycling and ICT.
- Reviews supply chain criticalities for e-waste.
- Aims at cleaner production and intelligent systems for a green digital economy.
- Includes real-life case studies reflecting industry standards and current paradigm.
This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in environmental engineering. waste management, urban mining, circular economy, waste processing, electronics and telecommunication engineering, electrical and electronics engineering, and chemical engineering.
About the Author: Biswajit Debnath is a Senior Research Fellow at the Chemical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University. He was a Commonwealth Split- Site Scholar at Aston University, Birmingham, UK (2019-2020). He received his B.Tech and M.E. in Chemical Engineering in 2013 and 2015 respectively. His area of specialization is waste valorization and sustainability with special focus on e- waste and plastic waste. His other research interests include Circular Economy, Climate Change, SDGs, Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Smart City, Environmental Chemical Engineering etc. He has worked in UKIERI projects and published nearly 80 articles including conference proceedings, peer- reviewed journals and contributed to nearly 30 book chapters in his research area published by Springer, Wiley, Elsevier, CRC Press, IEEE and River Publishers. His h index is 13 with 707 citations. He is a CPCB certified trainer for the six waste management rules and provided training on e- waste & plastic waste rules on invitation. He has won best paper award several times in International Conferences. He has delivered eleven invited lectures including webinars in multiple conferences and seminars. He has been the resource person in 5 training workshops. Since December 2018, he has been one of the most read authors from his department in ResearchGate. He has completed five collaborative (unfunded) projects with colleagues in USA, Finland, Saudi Arabia and India. He is reviewer of reputed journals namely ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering; Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management; Journal of Network and Computer Applications; Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society; Environment, Development and Sustainability; International Journal of Environmental and Health Research; Journal of Environmental Planning and Management; Production & Manufacturing Research; Metals; Molecules; Waste; Sustainability; Frontiers in Chemistry; Waste Management published by Springer; ACS, Taylor & Francis, MDPI, Frontiers and Elsevier. He is also review editor of Frontiers in Environmental Engineering in Air Pollution Management; Frontiers in Frontiers in Energy Efficiency in Energy Efficiency Management and Frontiers in High Performance Computing published by the Frontiers group. He has edited two books on e-waste management published by CRC Press. He is the co-creator of 'La Sustaina', which is the Kolkata's first upcycled café-cum-store. He also works as sustainability consultant for national and international clients.
Dr Abhijit Das has received his B.Tech. (IT) from the University of Kalyani, M.Tech. (IT) from the University of Calcutta and Ph.D. (Engineering) from the Department of CSE Jadavpur University, India.
Dr Das has over 18 years of Teaching and Research Experience and more than 50 publications and five edited books of international repute. Presently he is serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of IT, RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He had been the Head of the Department of IT (Jan 2018- Jan 2020) and has convened various committees at an institutional level.
Prof. Das has organized and chaired various international conferences and seminars. He has served as a resource person in various institutes and universities and television channels at state and national levels. Currently, six scholars are working with him on different research topics like IoT, e-Waste Management, Data Science, Quantum Computing, Object Oriented Categorization, etc.
Dr Das has published 5 Indian patents and 9 copyrights till date. He serves as a reviewer for many reputed journals and is a professional member of ACM, IEEE and IETE (Fellow).
Abhijit is a professional singer as well and frequently performs in All India Radio Kolkata, DoorDarshan, and in various private television channels in India and has more than 30 music albums and singles on his credit.
I am Mr. Potluri Anil Chowdary, Managing Director of Green Waves Environmental Solutions, the only First Authorized E - waste collection and handling unit in Andhra Pradesh (unit in Visakhapatnam) since April 2015.
Educational Qualification:
Graduate Diploma in Environment Resource Management from Waiariki Institute of Technology (New Zealand).Master in Science (M.Sc) in Environmental Science branch from GITAM Institute of Science, GITAM University (India).Engineering (Chemical Technology) from Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Osmania University (India).
Experiences:
Ø Worked under Department of Conservation (Rotorua, New Zealand) on plantation of native flora and Pest Management in year 2014.
Ø Worked on Composting and Vermi Composting for the Linton Park Community Centre, in Rotorua under the guidance of Mr. Rick Mansell (Centre Coordinator, Linton Park Community Centre, Rotorua, New Zealand) in the year 2014.
Ø Worked for 'Love Your Water' program organized by Sustainable Coastline on cleaning of fresh and marine water bodies (Rotorua, New Zealand) in the year 2014.
Awards
Ø Green Waves Environmental Solutions has won the National Awards for its excellence in e-Waste Recycling at Indian Industry Session (at 8th Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific).
Ø And yet another golden feather on its crown is the invitation it received from National Green Tribunal Conference to deliver a talk on e-Waste Management at Guwahati.
Ø On world environmental day 2018 we had been given Seva Puraskar award by Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control board for our great contribution towards sensitizing the people on Ewaste management and for effective recycling of ewaste.
Ø "Green Waves Environmental Solutions" had been featured as one of the "20 Most Promising E-Waste Management Companies for 2018" in India recognized by Silicon India Magazine.
Ø Green Waves Environmental Solutions won IconSWM Award for its excellence in E-Waste recycling: at 8th International Conference on Sustainable Waste Management, 22 November 2018, Acharya Nagajurna University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, .
Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya did his Bachelors in Physics, Bachelors in Optics and Optoelectronics, and Masters in Optics and Optoelectronics from the University of Calcutta, India in 1995, 1998, and 2000 respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2008. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta for his Masters. He is the recipient of several coveted awards including the Distinguished HoD Award and Distinguished Professor Award conferred by the Computer Society of India, Mumbai Chapter, India in 2017, the Honorary Doctorate Award (D. Litt.) from The University of South America, and the South East Asian Regional Computing Confederation (SEARCC) International Digital Award ICT Educator of the Year in 2017. He has been appointed as the ACM Distinguished Speaker for the tenure of 2018-2020. He has been inducted into the People of ACM hall of fame by ACM, the USA in 2020. He has been appointed as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for the tenure of 2021-2023. He has been elected as a full foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS) and the Russian Academy of Engineering (REA). He has been elected a full fellow of The Royal Society for Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA), London, UK.
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Ø He is currently serving as the Principal of Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Rajnagar, Birbhum. He served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Christ University, Bangalore. He served as the Principal of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India during 2017-2019. He has also served as a Senior Research Scientist in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic (2018-2019). Prior to this, he was the Professor of Information Technology at RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He served as the Head of the Department from March 2014 to December 2016. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Information Technology at RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India from 2011-2014. Before that, he served as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Information Technology at the University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, India from 2005-2011. He was a Lecturer in Information Technology at Kalyani Government Engineering College, India during 2001-2005. He is a co-author of 6 books and the co-editor of 94 books and has more than 400 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has got two PCTs and 19 patents to his credit. He has been a member of the organizing and technical program committees of several national and international conferences. He is the founding Chair of ICCICN 2014, ICRCICN (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), and ISSIP (2017, 2018) (Kolkata, India). He was the General Chair of several international conferences like WCNSSP 2016 (Chiang Mai, Thailand), ICACCP (2017, 2019) (Sikkim, India) and (ICICC 2018 (New Delhi, India), and ICICC 2019 (Ostrava, Czech Republic).
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Ø He is the Associate Editor of several reputed journals including Applied Soft Computing, IEEE Access, Evolutionary Intelligence, and IET Quantum Communications. He is the editor of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition Research and the founding Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Hybrid Intelligence, Inderscience. He has guest-edited several issues with several international journals. He is serving as the Series Editor of IGI Global Book Series Advances in Information Quality and Management (AIQM), De Gruyter Book Series Frontiers in Computational Intelligence (FCI), CRC Press Book Series(s) Computational Intelligence and Applications & Quantum Machine Intelligence, Wiley Book Series Intelligent Signal and Data Processing, Elsevier Book Series Hybrid Computational Intelligence for Pattern Analysis and Understanding and Springer Tracts on Human Centered Computing.
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Ø He is a life member of the Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI), Computer Society of India (CSI), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI), Center for Education Growth and Research (CEGR), Integrated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), and Association of Leaders and Industries (ALI). He is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, International Rough Set Society, International Association for Engineers (IAENG), Hong Kong, Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), USA, International Association of Academicians, Scholars, Scientists and Engineers (IAASSE), USA, Institute of Doctors Engineers and Scientists (IDES), India, The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP) and The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC). He is also a certified Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Engineers (IEI), India. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Engineering and Technology (IETI), Hong Kong.
