Recent Advances in Distillery Waste Management for Environmental Safety

Book excerpt: "The safe disposal of distillery waste into the environment, as well as their recycling and management, has become a hot topic in developing countries including India. This gross misconduct creates serious environmental and public health hazards. Thus, adequate management of waste has become a priority of environmental engineers and biotechnologists for environmental safety and sustainable development. Recent Advances in Distillery Waste Management for Environmental Safety covers specific, advanced, and updated knowledge on various developed individual and/or innovative, green, and emerging plant-microbes based technologies uses for management and recycling of distillery waste in an environmentally-friendly and cost-effective manner for sustainable development. Moreover, this book provides comprehensive state-of-the-art information on the physicochemical properties, chemical composition, and environmental risks associated with distillery waste. Moreover, the book also discusses various existing methods and technologies, up-gradation of existing technologies, the advent of newer technologies for the treatment, processing, and disposal of distillery waste, and focus areas for further development. This broad and unique coverage allows treatment firms and regulatory authorities to determine and develop appropriate treatment strategies for site-specific problems of distillery waste remediation. Features: Provides practical solutions for the treatment and recycling of distillery waste illustrated by specific case studies. Focuses on recent industry practices and preferences, along with newer approaches for wastewater treatment. An instructive compilation of treatment approaches, including advanced physicochemical and integrated/sequential methods. Covers biocomposting of sludge and effluent and biodiesel production from distillery waste for recycling and sustainable development. Emphasizing the relationship of metagenomics with organometallic compounds of distillery waste. Discusses the role of ligninolytic enzymes and bioreactors in distillery wastewater treatment. This book serves an accessible reference to assist, engineering consultants, industrial waste managers, policy-makers, environmental engineers, government implementers, researchers, scientists, and a wide range of professionals responsible for regulating, monitoring, and designing industrial wastewater treatment techniques, who aspire to work on the reclamation, recycling, and management of distillery waste or wastewater pollutants for environmental safety and sustainable development"--