Safe Disposal Methods of Municipal Solid Wastes for a Sustainable Environment

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Prateek Srivastava is currently working as Associate Professor in Chitkara University Innovation and Research Network, Chitkara University, Punjab. In addition, has additional charge of Manager-Technology Enabling Center (A Govt. of India funded project) at Chitkara University, Punjab India. He received his Ph.D. in the field of Advanced Air Conditioning System (Energy Efficiency) from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India. He completed his M.Tech. (Thermal Engineering) from National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India. He completed his B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) from Rajasthan Technical University, Kota. His areas of research include: Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning, Building Energy Efficiency, Green Buildings, Energy Recovery, Renewable Energy, Water recycling. He has over 25 publications in international journals of repute including SCOPUS, Web of Science and SCI indexed database and refereed international conferences. He has 4 granted patents to his credit. He has a total of 3 years of experience in teaching and research. He was winner of prestigious Building Energy Efficiency Higher and Advanced Network (BHAVAN) Fellowship supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, and the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF). He is certified Zero Effect Zero Defect (ZED) consultant, ZED is a process rating system for MSME companies implemented by Quality Council of India (QCI). He is an active member of Radiant Cooling System Technical Group of Indian Society of Heating Refrigeration, Air Conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE). He is Chair-Student Activities and BOG member of ASHRAE Chandigarh Chapter for SY 2021-2022. He is member of energy management group responsible for energy audit, energy conservation and green building initiatives, started energy conservation club for students at Chitkara University. He has organized various Faculty Development Programmes, International Conferences, Workshops, and Seminar for researchers, Ph.D., UG and PG level students.

Durgaprasad Ramteke is currently a researcher in Fiber and particle Engineering at the University of Oulu in Finland. Prior to his recent appointment at the UOULU, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Padova, Italy. Dr. Ramteke received his M.Sc. degree in Physics from University of Nagpur and his Ph.D. in Material Science from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT, Nagpur). Dr. Ramteke published several papers in preferred Journals and participated in a range of forums on material science. He also presented various academic as well as research-based papers at several national and international conferences in the USA, South Africa, and Europe. He was also part of the HORIZON 2020 program. His research work mainly focused on glasses, glass ceramics, ceramics, inorganic waste management, foam glass and geopolymers for direct applications.

Ankush Kumar Bedyal is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, Cluster University of Jammu, Jammu, India. Formerly he worked as a Research Associate at the Department of Physics and Astronomical Sciences, Central University of Jammu, Jammu, India. He also worked as Assistant Professor at Chitkara University, Punjab since, October 2019. Before that, he was Post Doctorate fellow at the Department of Physics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa for 3 years and 4 months. He did his Ph.D. in Physics from the School of Physics, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu & Kashmir, India in 2016. Dr. Bedyal has more than 12 years of experience in research. He has worked in the field of luminescence properties of phosphors particularly, Photoluminescence, Thermoluminescence, and Cathodoluminescence for their applications in lighting, White Light Emitting Diodes, Displays, Dosimetry and many more. He worked on the modification of luminescence, optical and structural properties of phosphors by Swift Heavy Ion irradiation. He also worked on the surface properties of the materials. Dr. Bedyal has outstanding research credentials. He has published more than 50 research papers in reputed journals and proceedings of International and National Conferences. He has presented his work at many national and international conferences in India and Abroad. He has delivered a couple of invited lectures at national conferences in India. His current focus is to synthesize the nanophosphors for light emitting diode applications, CTR phosphors, material modification using swift heavy ion irradiation and radiation dosimetry and to study the energy transfer mechanism among the activator ions in the phosphor material. Currently, he is also working on the ZnO/nanophosphor composites to enhance the UV/visible light photocatalytic activity of ZnO.

Monika Gupta joined Chitkara University as Associate Professor in November 2021. She is Ph.D. (Management), MBA (Marketing), UGC-NET (Management), B.Sc. (General), B.Ed. with about thirteen years of academic experience and four years of corporate experience. She has five papers publications in SCOPUS, one paper in ABDC ‘C’ Listed journal and one book review in ABDC Listed journal (out of thirty nine papers in national and international journals of repute). She is Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues (IJEFI), ABDC ‘C’ Listed journal. She received Cash honorarium from AIMA for paper publication. She remained actively involved in organizing National and International Conferences. She has attended more than twenty National and International Conferences. She also served as HOD (MBA, BBA) for three years. Her areas of interest are Marketing Management, Sales and Retail Management, Consumer Behavior, Integrated Marketing Communications, Services Marketing, Consumer Relationship Management, Strategic Management and Management Fundamentals.

Jasminder Kaur Sandhu is working at Deptt. of CSE, Chandigarh University, Punjab. She also served ass Assistant Professor, Chitkara University Research and Innovation Network (CURIN), Chitkara University, Punjab. She is having an additional charge of First Information officer (FIO) – CURIN and Joint Editor of the Newsletter “Res Novae”. She is Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala. She completed her M.Tech. (CSE) securing top merit position at Punjabi University, Patiala. She is having approximately 10 years of research and teaching experience. She is an active reviewer of many reputed journals such as Springer International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, IEEE Access. She has to her credit more than 25 publications in reputed SCI-Indexed Journals and International Conferences. Her research interests include e-Waste Management, Machine Learning, Ensemble Modelling Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, Dependability Evaluation, Quality of Service, Wireless Sensor Networks, and Ad-Hoc Networks.