Tapan Chakrabarti

TL;DR: In this paper, an assessment of the existing situation of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) in major cities in India is presented, and an action plan for better management has been formulated; both are presented in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review sheds light on some of the practical approaches that can be adopted to make the production of lignocellulosic bioethanol economically attractive, such as the use of cheaper substrates, cost-effective pre-treatment techniques, over-producing and recombinant strains for maximized ethanol tolerance and yields, improved recovery processes, efficient bioprocess integration, economic exploitation of side products, and energy and waste minimization.

TL;DR: The study demonstrates an increase in CO(2) sequestration efficiency by maneuvering chemically aided biological sequestration of CO( 2) by studying the effect of acetazolamide and the role of carbonic anhydrase in calcite deposition.

TL;DR: The degradation of organic substrates were quick (within 9-12 days) in case of rapid composting as indicated by the reduction (below 20) in C/N ratio, whereas, normal composting took more than 20 days to attain C/n ratio of below 20.

TL;DR: The thermal and mechanical properties of the blended films were studied by means of thermogravimetry, differential scanning calorimetry and an automated material testing system, and it revealed that blend films had a single glass transition temperature for all the proportions of PHB:starch tested.