Sanitary and municipal engineering

This book discusses the scientific process of biomass compaction, focusing on pressing chamber parameters and their influence on the quality of extrusions from biomass.

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.

Sustainable Remediation of Contaminated Soil and Groundwater: Materials, Processes, and Assessment provides the remediation tools and techniques necessary for simultaneously saving time and money and maximizing environmental, social and economic benefits.

Jan Kortmann untersucht in diesem Buch, ob der Gesundheitsschutz und die Recyclingfähigkeit potenzielle Markteintrittsbarrieren für den Verbundbaustoff Carbonbeton darstellen.

For the first time a state-of-the-art of present metal pollution along the coastline of Latin America is provided.

Groundwater contributes to the sustainable development of many Asian cities by providing water for domestic, industrial and agricultural uses and regulating ecosystem flows.

Industrial desalination of sea and brackish water is becoming an essential part in providing sustainable sources of fresh water for a larger number of communities around the world.

In this book, we have summarized recent progresses due to novel nanomaterials for sustainable water resources.

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.

The textile industry is among the most significant polluters of water owing to the existence of various types of pollution streams generated by printing processes and textile dyeing.

This book features carefully selected articles on emerging technologies for waste valorization and environmental protection.

Land deterioration, drought, desertification, and water resources shrinkage threaten natural resources, negatively impacting environmental, economic, and political stability.

Professor Wolfgang Nentwig, Universität Bern, stellt die derzeit brennendsten Umweltaspekte in ihrer Gesamtproblematik anschaulich dar; sein Werk hebt sich damit positiv von den zahllosen Sammelwerken zu dieser Thematik ab.

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

This book presents the advantages of the circular economy as a powerful - and inevitable - model for tackling the current challenges against shrinking resources and establishing the resource efficient economy.

Water Scarcity, Contamination, and Management presents new and updated material, including case studies, step-by-step guidance on key procedures and protocols, and timely topics such as climate change and integrated water resource management.

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 is devoted to sewage sludge, its sustainable management, and its use and implications on soil fertility and crop production.

In this book, we have summarized recent progresses due to novel nanomaterials for sustainable water resources.

This book is a collection of studies on state-of-art techniques developed for producing value-added N-containing chemicals and N-doped carbon materials from renewable sources via sustainable technologies.

This book focuses on the properties of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) and recent advances in their application in lignocellulosic biomass processing.

Overview of systems of frequency distributions, their properties, applications to the fields of water resources and environmental engineering.

This book addresses the needs of students, researchers, as well as engineers and other professionals or readers interested in recent advances of biofuel and efficient waste management.

Water Footprints and Sustainable Development serves as the sole comprehensive volume of the role of waste management for sustainable development.

This new textbook introduces the concepts and tools essential for upper-level undergraduate study in water resources and hydraulics.

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.

This book reports the latest work on green technologies in palm oil milling processes, including new processes and various optimisation techniques.

This book thoroughly explores strategies and greener methods, chemical and biological treatments, sustainable chemistry, and technological advancements aimed at mitigating the harmful effects of chemicals on the environment.

This book covers bleach plant effluents, that most polluting effluent from the pulp and paper industry.

A powerfully researched and important look at the ravages of nuclear waste remediation.

This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the theme of applied geology, which is a critical theme for the global economy.

Chemistry of Advanced Environmental Purification Processes of Water covers the fundamentals behind a broad spectrum of advanced purification processes for various types of water, showing numerous applications through worked examples.

Water pollution is a matter of concern for both developing and developed parts of the world.

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

This book addresses the growing need for a standard textbook on input-output analysis (IO) within the context of industrial ecology (IE).

This book is devoted to innovative structural materials for multi-materialization.

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO DESALINATION PLANT OPERATION AND MAINTENANCEThis Water Environment Federation and WateReuse Association publication describes state-of-the art operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting methods for reverse osmosis brackish and seawater desalination plants for municipal water supplies.

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.

Principles of Water Quality Control is the definitive student text in its field for 25 years, this new edition takes an environmental perspective that is highly relevant in the context of current public policy debates.

This book presents a wide range of synthesis and characterization techniques to produce ceramic nanomaterials specially developed to be used in environmental applications.

The city of Exeter was one of the great provincial capitals of late medieval and early modern England, possessing a range of civic amenities fully commensurate with its size and importance.

This volume highlights cutting-edge research on Zero waste management and the associated effects of waste on the environment.

Principles of Water Quality presents the fundamental environmental processes that regulate the movement of materials in natural systems.

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

Design for Flooding contains considerable useful information for practitioners and students.

Ausgehend von den Mobilitätsbedürfnissen der modernen Industriegesellschaft und den politischen Rahmenbedingungen zum Klimaschutz werden die unterschiedlichen Antriebs- und Ladekonzepte von batterieelektrischen- und hybridelektrischen Fahrzeugen vorgestellt und bewertet.

This book discusses new and innovative trends and techniques in the removal of toxic and refractory pollutants by means of various microbial biotechnology processes from wastewater, both on the laboratory and industrial scales.

The energy crisis in 1973 and 1979 initiated a great number of activities and programs for low and high temperature applica- tion of solar energy.