Advanced and Emerging Technologies for Resource Recovery from Wastes

Wastes Generation, Characterization and Health and Environmental Impacts.- Conventional Technologies for Waste Management.- Advanced Technologies (Biological and Thermo-chemical) for Waste to Energy Conversion.- Nitrogen and Phosphorus Recovery from Municipal Wastewater and Sludge .- Recovery of Metals from Electronic Waste.- Conversion of Waste Plastics and Resins into Oils and Activated Carbon.- Fractionation of Crop Residues into Cellulose, Hemicellulose and Lignin.- Production of Phenolics for Fuels and Chemicals from Forestry Residues and Lignin by Pyrolysis, Liquefaction and De-polymerization.- Summary and Outlook. 

Dr. Laleh Nazari is a Research Scientist and Professional Engineer (P.Eng.). She worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alternative Resources (ICFAR), and Trojan Technologies, respectively. She completed her Ph.D. degree in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (2016) at the University of Western Ontario. She received her Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tehran (2007) and Iran University of Science and Technology (2005), respectively; Her publications include 11 papers and 3 book chapters (authored/co- authored). A US patent has been granted to her PhD research project which has also been licensed for commercialization. 
Dr. Charles Xu is full Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Western University, Fellow of Chemical Institute of Canada (FCIC) and Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE). He was the NSERC/FPInnovations Industrial Research Chair in Forest Biorefinery (2011-2016), acquiring an international reputation in the field of biorefinery, particularly on bio-based chemicals and materials from forestry/ agricultural residues, catalytic conversion of glycerol and sugars into green chemicals, resources recovery from wastewater sludges and microalgae, as well as utilizations of biomass and bioenergy in iron and steel manufacturing processes.He has authored/edited3books on biorefinery, and published 20+book chapters and 230+ papers in peer-reviewed journals and 150+ conference papers/abstracts. In accordance to Google Scholar, his work has received total citationsof over 10,000 with an H-index of 53 to date. He wasthe recipient ofthe 2011 Syncrude Canada Innovation Award and the 2019 Award in Design and Industrial Practice from Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering. 
Dr. Madhumita B Ray is a Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, and the Directorof WesternWater Centre, at Western