LPU M.Sc. student, Mandeep Kaur from School of Chemical Engineering and Physical Sciences has made us proud by getting her brilliant project work highlighted in one of the best pharma magazines, “Pharma Focus Asia“. Considering severe environmental problems like pollution, waste disposal and land degradation, she has shown how waste management can have a greener future using sunlight-assisted degradation.
At present liquid waste management is one of the major challenges for many industries throughout the globe because of the production of a large amount of waste per day. Most of the industries do not use proper waste management system because of the high energy cost which reduces their net benefits. Out of many liquid wastes, one of the major liquid waste is waste chemicals from pharmaceutical industries.
Efficient, economic, and environment-friendly degradation of waste chemicals may be one of the approaches to reduce the release of toxic chemicals to the environment. Now if we can harness the energy from the sunlight which is freely available to us then most of the problem related to energy cost will be resolved. In this article, Mandeep and her mentor have discussed the wonder of nanomaterials which can make this possible thus shows a green future of waste management.
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