Sustainable Environment: Proceedings of NERC 2022

Abstract

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- About This Book -- About IIT Guwahati -- From the Desk of Chairman of Technical Committee of NERC 2022 -- North East Research Conclave-2022: Toward Sustainable Science and Technology -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Water Quality and Wastewater Treatment -- Multi-metal Adsorption and Cyclic Desorption Characteristics of Zn+2 and Cu+2 Constituting Multi-component Synthetic Wastewater System Using Commercial Resins -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology and Materials -- 2.1 Chemicals and Reagents -- 2.2 Characterizations and Analysis -- 2.3 Multi-heavy Metal Containing Synthetic Wastewater Solutions -- 2.4 Batch Adsorption Studies -- 2.5 Batch Desorption Studies -- 3 Results and Discussion -- 3.1 Batch Adsorption Characteristics -- 3.2 Equilibrium and Kinetic Model Fitness -- 3.3 Commercialized Resin Characterization -- 3.4 Cyclic Desorption Characteristics -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Investigation of Microalgae Growth in a Mixture of Kraft Paper Industry Effluent and Biogas Slurry: Wastewater Treatment and Biodiesel Production -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and Methods -- 2.1 Collection of Samples -- 2.2 Pre-treatment of the Effluent -- 2.3 Media Preparation -- 2.4 Microorganism Selection and Growth Condition -- 2.5 The Dry Weight of Algal Biomass -- 2.6 Lipid Extraction (Lipid Percentage) -- 2.7 Biodiesel Production -- 3 Results and Discussions -- 3.1 Microalgal Growth -- 3.2 Physical Parameters of the Prepared Samples (After and Before Being Treated with Algae) -- 3.3 Chemical Parameter of Kraft Paper Mill Effluent and Biogas Slurry -- 3.4 Biomass and Lipid Production -- 3.5 Biodiesel Analysis-NMR Spectroscopy -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Pharmaceutically Active Compounds' (PhACs) Threat: An Environmental Prospective -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Pharmaceutically Active Compounds (PhACs).