Waste treatment and disposal

This book reports on the results of  a 6-year international collaboration between four universities such as  the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), the Universidad de Chile, the Universidad Austral de Chile and the Universidad de Concepcion (Chile) on the topic of Eco-Industrial Development, i.

This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative review of the key environmental areas and compartments where fragrances have been found and discusses the current challenges of their presence and potential hazards.

This book highlights current efforts and research (in Malaysia) on Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) approach as a core technique for sludge treatment and energy recovery.

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.

Non-Waste Technology and Production covers the proceedings of an international seminar organized by the Senior Advisers to ECE Governments on Environmental Problems on the Principles and Creation of Non-Waste Technology and Production, held in Paris on November 29 - December 4, 1976.

Reap the benefits of sludge The processing of wastewater sludge for use or disposal has been a continuing challenge for municipal agencies.

This book is focused on the current status of industrial pollution, its source, characteristics, and management through various advanced treatment technologies.

Emerging contaminants are chemical and biological agents for which there is growing concern about their potential health and environmental effects.

This book provides a timely review of strategies for coping with polluted ecosystems by employing bacteria, fungi and algae.

Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Biological Treatment of Industrial Effluents provides extensive coverage of new developments, state-of-the-art technologies, and potential future trends in data-based scientific knowledge and advanced information on the role and application of environmental biotechnology and engineering in the treatment of industrial effluents.

Marianne Horinko Executive Vice President, Global Environment and Technology Foundation On August 7, 1978, President Carter declared a state of emergency in the community of Love Canal, New York.

This book explores the potential of advanced microwave techniques, specifically microwave-assisted pyrolysis, for the production, adsorption, and regeneration of activated carbon (AC) as a promising solution to address wastewater pollution caused by dyes.

The book presents a collection of articles from the 6th International Conference on Civil Engineering, 2022, held in Singapore.

Electrochemical Methods for Water Treatment: Fundamentals, Methods and Full Scale Applications covers all traditional, emerging and combined methods currently available for the treatment of surface, drinkable water and industrial wastewater.

This book presents electrochemical water treatment methods, which offer ways to find more sustainable solutions.

This book is a selection of the best papers presented at the XXX National Conference of Commodity Science held in Bari, Italy on 27 to 28th October, 2022.

This book reviews contaminants of emerging nature affecting the agroecosystem and includes important information regarding the their sources, types, transportation, environmental threats and strategies to decontaminate the affected agroecosystems.

This book focuses on software reuse and the chances, dependability tests and recommendations for best reuse practice.

Solid waste landfilling and related environmental issues have become global concerns, particularly in developing countries.

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.

A comprehensive guide to sludge management, reuse, and disposal When wastewater is treated, reducing organic material to carbon dioxide, water, and bacterial cells the cells are disposed of, producing a semisolid and nutrient-rich byproduct called sludge.

This book examines the issue of solid waste generation and management as a worldwide phenomenon, focusing on strategies that facilitate the disposal and utilization of waste while ensuring environmental integrity and meeting the needs of future generations.

The United Nations has reported that the world is on track to produce over 180 billion pounds of electronic waste (e-waste) by 2030.

Encyclopedia of Green Materials covers comprehensive overview, recent research and development of Green Materials and Green Nanomaterials, and their applications in all areas, including electronics, sensors, textiles, biomedical, energy and energy storage, building constructions and interiors design, automotive, green plastic manufacturing, food packing, membrane technology, wastewater treatment, rubber technology, and tire manufacturing.

This book publishes a number of papers that were presented at GeoMEast, Sustainable Civil Infrastructures, an international congress held in Cairo, Egypt, in November 2019.

This volume discusses: (1) the treatment of hazardous sludge, wastewater, textile effluent, contaminated groundwater, laboratory waste, toxic dye, heavy metals, acid mine drainage and palm oil effluent; (2) the technologies of stabilization, solidification, natural coagulation-flocculation, river catchment control and mitigation, dredging and mining operations, and (3) the management of acid mines, laboratories, nano pollutants and plant effluents.

The edited book brings out a comprehensive synthesis of latest scientific literature covering various important aspects of anaerobic biodigesters for human waste management that ranges from latest understanding on fundamental concepts/mechanisms of anaerobic biodigestion, modern tools and techniques used in process evaluation, current strategies being recruited for the performance enhancement, and case studies/ success stories across the world on applications of biodigesters used in human waste treatment.

This book comprises of papers from the International Conference on Advances and Innovations in Recycling Engineering (AIR-2021).

This comprehensive text provides the reader with both a detailed reference and a unified course on wastewater treatment.

Dieses Buch beschreibt die metallurgischen Vorgänge, Thermodynamik, Strömungsmechanik und Verfahrenstechnik der Roheisenerzeugung im Hinblick auf die Hüttenwerks- und Gasreinigungsanlagen.

In diesem Handbuch wird die Technologie moderner Windkraftanlagen systematisch und umfassend dargestellt.

The use of plastic materials has seen a massive increase in recent years, and generation of plastic wastes has grown proportionately.

Radioactive wastes are generated from a wide range of sources, including the power industry, and medical and scientific research institutions, presenting a range of challenges in dealing with a diverse set of radionuclides of varying concentrations.

Waste: A Handbook for Management gives the broadest, most complete coverage of waste in our society.

This book provides the detail information about nanoparticles, their types, characterization techniques such as TEM, FESEM, AFM, XRD etc.

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 provides a multi-level and multi-dimensional insight into urban water and sanitation development by analyzing sector reforms in Africa.

Plastic is one of the widely used polymers around the globe since its discovery.

This book contains research papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Civil Engineering, which was held in Singapore from 24-26 March 2023.

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.

Hazardous waste in the environment is one of the most difficult challenges facing our society.

Die wichtigsten Gesetze und Verordnungen werden vorgestellt und die Rechtslage an Hand aktueller Rechtssprechung dargelegt.

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

This volume discusses the growing issue of global environmental microplastic pollution resulting from the industrial manufacturing of everyday products.

Waste incineration is the art of completely combusting waste, while maintaining or reducing emission levels below current emission standards.

This book provides high-quality research results and proposes future priorities for more sustainable development and energy security.

This book is the fourth volume of the proceedings of the 4th GeoShanghai International Conference that was held on May 27 - 30, 2018.