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.

The existence of life at high temperatures is quiet fascinating.

This book highlights novel materials for dye-containing wastewater treatment and presents an up-to-date information on dye degradation/adsorption using new promising materials such as nanocomposites.

Urban Water Distribution Networks: Assessing Systems Vulnerabilities and Risks provides a methodology for a system-wide assessment of water distribution networks (WDN) based on component analysis, network topology and, most importantly, the effects of a network's past performance on its seismic and/or non-seismic reliability.

The effective removal of dyes from aqueous waste is an important issue for many industrialized countries.

Following the end of World War II there was a major migra- tion of population in the United States and Scandinavian countries to urban areas.

Enzymes can help break down plastic waste and make it less harmful to the environment.

Pollution Control and Resource Recovery: Sewage Sludge discusses several traditional and new environmentally friendly technologies for sewage sludge treatment and disposal.

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

Environmental Sustainability and Industries identifies and discusses critical areas related to environmentally conscious industrial development of products and services that may support more sustainable and equitable societies.

Nanoferrites for Emerging Environmental Applications discusses the synthesis and structure of nanoferrites, as well as their electrical, optical, and magnetic properties.

In this day and age, it is unfortunate that the economic prosperity and development leads to disruption of the dynamic balance of the environment.

The Hamburg Congress on Climate and Development was conceived as a response to the worldwide interest on issues of climatic change and variability.

This book addresses the need for a technical guided thought on production, consumption, and waste management of plastic and polymers in the African continent.

Handbook of Solid Waste Management and Waste Minimization Technologies is an essential tool for plant managers, process engineers, environmental consultants, and site remediation specialists that focuses on practices for handling a broad range of industrial solid waste problems.

Small and medium-sized enterprises can serve as promising cradles for challenging ideas and pioneering initiatives.

Im Frühjahr 1994 sind neue Regelungen der Europäischen Union in Bezug auf die Abfallverbringung innerhalb der Mitgliedsländer in Kraft getreten.

This volume focuses on tackling the harmful impact of agricultural waste with the use of sustainable practices, bio-techniques, and new technologies that either make use of the waste as a raw material or convert the waste into a useful resource that can help achieve environmental sustainability.

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

Waste-to-Energy: Sustainable Approaches for Emerging Economies presents the latest developments and applications for the conversion of waste into biofuels and other energy products.

Achieving environmental sustainability with rapid industrialization is a major challenge of current scenario worldwide.

Current wastewater treatment technologies are not sustainable simply due to their high operational costs and process inefficiency.

This book addresses a complex issue - water sustainability - that requires a combined approach to manage both water and energy.

Volume 52 features a number of advances in the crop and soil sciences.

This book offers insights into the recent research focusing on green solutions to address environmental pollution and its impacts.

Die Agenda 21, die als Abschlußdokument der UN-Konferenz über Umwelt und Entwicklung 1992 in Rio de Janeiro verabschiedet wurde, stellt den Kommunen die Aufgabe, mit allen Interessengruppen ihrer Bürgerschaft über einen Konsultationsprozeß einen Konsens über eine lokale Agenda zu erzielen.

Over the past ten years, innovative technologies have shown that advanced oxidation processes are highly promising when applied to the remediation of polluted water or wastewater as they don't generate any sludge or solid material of hazardous nature.

This book provides readers with the most current knowledge on hazardous waste management practices.

This book highlights the efforts made to realize the concept of 'Circular Bioeconomy'.

This book interprets the economic benefits and social benefits brought about by zero waste.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Produced Water Seminar held in Trondheim, Norway, in September 1995.

Solid and Hazardous Waste Management: Science and Engineering presents the latest on the rapid increase in volume and types of solid and hazardous wastes that have resulted from economic growth, urbanization, and industrialization and how they have challenged national and local governments to ensure effective and sustainable management of these waste products.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

This book is a direct companion to Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens in that the hazardous chemicals listed in Sittig's Handbook are the source for this guide.

This book discusses selected waste and by-products of the food industry.

The book focuses on the challenges faced by urban areas in the context of handling waste in an environmentally and socially acceptable manner.

Bioremediation and Sustainability is an up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of research and applications for some of the most important low-cost, "e;green,"e; emerging technologies in chemical and environmental engineering Sustainable development requires the development and promotion of environmental management and a constant search for green technologies to treat a wide range of aquatic and terrestrial habitats contaminated by increasing anthropogenic activities with the main sources of contaminants being the chemical industries.

Unravels fundamental engineering for the treatment, recovery, and disposal of solid waste, sludge and wastewater in the petroleum, chemical, and unconventional oil and gas processing industries This new edition unravels essential requirements for the process design and engineering of the equipment and facilities pertaining to waste management for gas refineries, chemical plants, oil terminals, and petrochemical plants.

David Horton was born in 1945 and grew up in Perth, WA.

New edition covers the latest practices, regulations, and alternative disinfectants Since the publication of the Fourth Edition of White's Handbook of Chlorination and Alternative Disinfectants more than ten years ago, the water industry has made substantial advances in their understanding and application of chlorine, hypochlorite, and alternative disinfectants for water and wastewater treatment.

The enormous public interest of specialists as well as of engaged and concerned citizens in the energy problem can be understood in view of the fact that the future of national and world-wide economy depends on the availability of sufficient primary energy.

Case Studies in Control presents a framework to facilitate the use of advanced control concepts in real systems based on two decades of research and over 150 successful applications for industrial end-users from various backgrounds.

Waste-to-Energy: Sustainable Approaches for Emerging Economies presents the latest developments and applications for the conversion of waste into biofuels and other energy products.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

This book explores a diverse spectrum of waste materials, encompassing industrial hazardous and non-hazardous waste, agricultural waste, biomass waste, radioactive waste, municipal solid and liquid waste, as well as e-waste, and investigates their adverse impacts on the environment.

Combustion Ash and Residue Management assists owners and operators of Coal-fired and Resource Recovery Power Plants.