Waste treatment and disposal

This book describes a simplified approach to the modelling and process design of a fixed bed hybrid bioreactor for wastewater treatment.

This book reviews the theory and practice on radiation protection and nuclear safety based on experimental case studies.

This book describes the photocatalytic mechanism, factors affecting photocatalytic activity, design and preparation of different kinds of nanostructured photocatalysts, and their applications in the environmental and energy fields.

This book collates bioactive compounds from the by-products of bulb, flower and fruit vegetables, and it explores vegetable processing by-products utilization.

Ammonia in wastewater causes the eutrophication of water bodies and the subsequent depletion of dissolved oxygen.

Supercomputing is an important science and technology that enables the scientist or the engineer to simulate numerically very complex physical phenomena related to large-scale scientific, industrial and military applications.

This book features a collection of high-quality and peer-reviewed papers from 2023 14th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, which was held in Shandong, China, during November 23-25, 2023.

This book provides a platform for researchers, engineers, and manufacturers to conceptualize green ideas for sustainably developing plastics and films from biomass and agricultural waste.

This book, belonging to energy discipline, summarized the latest research progress in the development of microbial lipids and biodiesel technologies.

This book introduces solid and hazardous waste identification technology in environmental management.

During the past few years the worlds has reverberated of names like Seveso, Love Canal, Lekkerkerk, Times Beach, just to name the most publicized ones.

This book examines how discarded marble heaps can be repurposed, in situ, to breathe new life into the landscape, offering solutions that are as innovative as they are practical and sustainable.

This book focuses on the flocculation behavior of full tailings, analyzes the influence of multiple factors such as flow field shear on flocculation behavior, constructs a dynamic model of full tailings flocculation behavior, simulates and studies the flocculation behavior of full tailings in the feedwells of deep cone thickener, and optimizes the feeding and internal flocculation parameters.

Due to complex phytochemical components and associated beneficial properties, numerous medicinal and aromatic plants, in whole or parts, have been used for nutritional purposes or the treatment of various diseases and disorders in humans and animals.

This book evaluates and discusses the main sustainability challenges encountered in the production of biofuel and bio-products from oil palm biomass.

This book focuses on challenges that have arisen because of trash discharges and their potential causes and provides long-term sustainable solutions.

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This book is part of a series of eight providing profession-wide, consensus-based assessment of innovative site remediation and hazardous waste treatment technologies.

In computational mechanics, the first and quite often the most difficult part of a problem is the correct formulation of the problem.

This volume discusses the reduction, recycling, and reuse of industrial and agricultural biomass wastes to develop value-added products using environmentally sustainable practices and technologies.

Die vorliegende Studie zeigt auf, wie umweltökonomisches Instrumentarium zur Analyse abfallwirtschaftlicher Fragestellungen angewandt werden kann und welche Empfehlungen sich hieraus für die umweltpolitische Rahmensetzung ableiten lassen.

This book presents the coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical (THMC) processes in fractured rocks at varying scales from single fractures to fracture networks.

Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science.

This two-volume set provides a comprehensive overview of modern nanoscience, and encompasses advanced techniques of nanocomposite materials that make their way from the laboratory to the field for the revival of energy and environmental systems in a sustainable manner.

This book focuses on skeleton-degradable soils, including three typical degradation processes of soil skeletons: soil particle breakage, chemical degradation, and biochemical degradation.

This present book serves as a comprehensive compilation of various emerging contaminants in the ecosystem, their contamination risk as well as the applicable remediation techniques.

This book presents a detailed study of the thermal consolidation behavior of saturated clay from experimental and theoretical aspects, analyzes the thermal consolidation response of saturated clay under the influence of different drainage conditions, confining pressures, temperature paths, and over-consolidation ratios, and carries out theoretical modelling of thermal consolidation based on thermoelasticity theory.

This book identifies emerging technologies that allow the reuse and regeneration of industrial wastewater with innovative and applied approaches throughout the wastewater treatment cycle.

This book is a collection of selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the 2023 8th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development (ACESD), held in Sapporo, Japan, November 3-5, 2023.

This book summarizes the advanced sustainable trends in removing toxic pollutants by environmental and biotechnological processes from both industrial wastewater and sewage wastewater.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of four waste streams expected to become relevant: Li-ion batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage systems, motors for electric vehicles, photovoltaic panels, and composite materials from wind turbines.

This book highlights microbial biodiversity, biowastes, and innovative bioprocesses that contribute to creating these environmentally friendly biopolymers.

Jedes Jahr verursacht unsere bisherige Produktions- und Verbrauchsweise große Mengen an Hausmüll.

This book collects the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of environmental science and sustainable development, which were presented by scholars and researchers at the 2021 6th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development, held in Phuket, Thailand, November 6-8, 2021.

This book systematically summarizes the development process of thermal spraying technology, and elaborates on preparation, characterization, and testing methods of plasma spraying layers.

This book provides updated and comprehensive information on the evaluation of the river basin environment, along with its management and conservation.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of bioactive phytochemicals within by-products from leaf, stem, root, and tuber vegetables, and it explores the valorisation of these vegetable cultivation and processing by-products, not only as a source of valuable bioenergy but also for health purposes.

This book aims to offer new scientific concept in the field of water and environment.

This book addresses this challenge head-on, focusing on the intersection of groundwater sustainability and environmental health.

This book consists of selected and peer reviewed papers which were presented at the 2024 14th International Conference on Environmental Science and Engineering (ICESE 2024).

This book covers topics that addresses the global environmental issues, their challenges, and mitigation strategies for sustainable development.

Particle samplers are widely used in workplaces in order to determine the concentration of airborne particles in the atmosphere.

This book covers the challenges and opportunities presented by plastics in the modern era and sheds light on the complex interplay of technology, environment, and socio-economic dynamics.

This book focuses on the most recent developments in bioremediation techniques and what the future holds for bioremediation in order to reduce the amount of pollution in the world.

This book consists of selected papers from the 2022 4th International Conference on Environment Sciences and Renewable Energy, which was held as a fully virtual conference during May 27-29, 2022.

This book focuses on challenges that have arisen because of trash discharges and their potential causes and provides long-term sustainable solutions.

This is the third in a series of three volumes of proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (PBNC 2022) which was held by Chinese Nuclear Society.