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Brings together recent innovations and practices of bio-based
technologies for environmental Remediation Outlines major Bio-Based
Technologies Contains both practical and theoretical latest and
broad aspects of environment management through bio-based
innovative technology.
An authoritative and comprehensive volume of knowledge and green
technologies wholly focused on the future of the bioeconomy. The
authors present data, show opportunities, discuss R&D findings,
analyze strategies, assess the wider economic impact, showcase
achievements, criticize policies and propose solutions for the
green revolution in biofuels, biochemicals and biomaterials'
production and power generation. A fascinating range of case
studies from the US, China and many European countries are used to
inform readers about the impact of this field on society and how
various technologies are currently being implemented. Additionally,
the role of industry on this green industrial revolution is
outlined with contributions from several major companies such as
DuPont (US), UPM-Kymmene Oy (Finland), Anhui BBCA Biochemical Co
(China).
An authoritative and comprehensive volume of knowledge and green
technologies wholly focused on the future of the bioeconomy. The
authors present data, show opportunities, discuss R&D findings,
analyze strategies, assess the wider economic impact, showcase
achievements, criticize policies and propose solutions for the
green revolution in biofuels, biochemicals and biomaterials'
production and power generation. A fascinating range of case
studies from the US, China and many European countries are used to
inform readers about the impact of this field on society and how
various technologies are currently being implemented. Additionally,
the role of industry on this green industrial revolution is
outlined with contributions from several major companies such as
DuPont (US), UPM-Kymmene Oy (Finland), Anhui BBCA Biochemical Co
(China).
As a new and rapidly growing science, the applications of
ultrasound methods in environmental technology hold a promising
future. Compared to conventional methods, ultrasonication can bring
several benefits such as being environmentally friendly (no toxic
chemical are used or produced), low cost, and compact, allowing
on-site treatment. Besides an overview featuring the background
behind ultrasonic technology, this brief summarizes the main
studies and innovations reported in recent research that has
utilized ultrasound methods in environmental analysis, water, and
sludge treatment, soil and sediment remediation to air
purification.
Pesticides in the Natural Environment: Sources, Health Risks, and
Remediation presents the direct and indirect impacts of the use of
pesticides on the environment, human health, and agriculture. The
book explores sustainable alternatives to pesticide use, along with
policies for regulations and remediation techniques. Bridging the
gap between regulations and the tangible environmental threat, the
book proposes practical solutions while also providing important
context on the hazards of pesticides. It highlights the influence
on climate change, offering a holistic perspective for researchers
in environmental science, policymakers, and land managers. The book
introduces pesticides and their applications, then goes on to cover
their impact on various ecosystems in the natural environment.
Health risks are covered, followed by various remediation
techniques, such as biological processes, phytoremediation, and
chemical treatments.
The excessive use of antibiotics has given rise to an increase in
microbial resistance, threatening our ability to treat infectious
diseases. The growth in resistance to antimicrobials and
antibiotics threatens to reverse almost a century of medical
progress. urgent action plans to tackle the crisis of Antimicrobial
Resistance (AMR) and multi-resistant bacteria are needed. It is a
major research task to find effective ways to reduce the release
and degradation of antibiotics and ARBs to the environment.
Degradations of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria from
various sources addresses various issues related the generations
and degradations, eliminations of antibiotics and antibiotics
resistance bacteria. Degradations of Antibiotics and Antibiotic
Resistance Bacteria from various sources contains both practical
and theoretical latest and broad aspects of antibiotics and
antibiotics resistance bacteria management through the various
recent methods. Various factors which are responsible for the
efficient degradations are highlighted in the Degradations of
Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria from various sources
as separate chapters. Socioeconomic and policies on the ARBs are
also discussed.
Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials in the Agri-Food Industries: Smart
Nanoarchitectures, Technologies, Challenges, and Applications
brings together the latest advances in the utilization of advances
nanotechnology, nanoarchitectures, and nanomaterials in the
agricultural and food sectors. The book begins by discussing recent
trends towards sustainable synthesis and application, covering
green nanomaterials and biodegradable nanomaterials and composites.
Subsequent chapters focus on key application areas of engineered
nanomaterials in both agriculture and food processing, such as crop
production and protection, delivery vehicles, detection of
contaminants, nanobionic and genetic engineering in plants, active
food packaging and preservation, enhanced food formulations and
nutrients, nanoscale additives for freshness, and nanosensors. This
is followed by a section that addresses key challenges relating to
the application of nanostructures and nanodevices in these sectors,
including global market considerations, health and environmental
concerns, and intellectual property and socio-economic issues.
Finally, policy implications and future perspective for the field
are reviewed in detail.
Green and Sustainable Approaches using Wastes for the Production of
Multifunctional Nanomaterials focuses on the examination of green
synthesis utilizing green waste materials derived from home and
industrial applications. This book also examines the current state
of material generations, future problems and their industrial
constraints, and the synthesis of NMs for various applications such
as medicinal, agriculture, environmental, food and beverage
storage, and so on. The book includes the most recent practical and
theoretical aspects of the use of waste materials released in the
fabrication of various types of valuable nanomaterials, such as
metal, metal oxide, polymeric, and graphene, among others. This is
a relatively new concept in waste utilization, and green synthesis
is a viable resource in making NPs. This book will also be valuable
for waste management professionals who need proper disposal
techniques for by-products.
Resource Recovery in Industrial Waste Waters provides a holistic
approach for discovering and harnessing valuable resources from
industrial wastewaters, the cutting-edge technologies required, and
a discussion on the new findings. In three volumes, the books
stress the importance of contaminated waters' remediation,
including surface waters, municipal or industrial wastewaters and
treating these waters as a new source of nutrients, minerals and
energy. It introduces polluted waters as new and sustainable
sources, rather than seeing wastewaters as only a source of
hazardous organic and inorganic matters. Sections discuss
wastewater treatment and recovery and contribute to generate a
sustainable approach of wastewater by providing the main advantages
and disadvantages of both wastewater/polluted water treatment and
recovery.
Resource Recovery in Drinking Water Treatment concentrates on
techniques and methods for water purification. The book develops a
new approach—resource recovery—toward drinking water, including
the role of methods (adsorption, membrane, ion – exchange,
biosorption, coagulation, etc.) and nanocomposites (such as
biochar, sludge-based composites, chitosan, polymer, magnetic
particles, etc.) in water resource recovery. It provides an
in-depth overview on emerging water treatment techniques and the
resource recovery of materials during the treatment process.
Finally, the book aims to introduce polluted waters as new and
sustainable sources rather than seeing wastewaters only a source of
hazardous organic and inorganic matters. This book is part of a
three-volume set that stresses the importance of contaminated water
remediation, including surface waters, municipal or industrial
wastewaters, and waters as a new source of nutrients, minerals and
energy.
Environmental Applications of Microbial Nanotechnology: Emerging
Trends in Environmental Remediation discusses emerging trends and
recent advancements in environmental remediation. The book provides
environmental applications of microbial nanotechnology that helps
readers understand novel microbial systems and take advantage of
recent advances in microbial nanotechnologies. It highlights
established research and technology on microbial nanotechnology's
environmental applications, moves to rapidly emerging aspects and
then discusses future research directions. The book provides
researchers in academia and industry with a high-tech start-up that
will revolutionize the modern environmental applications of
microbial nanotechnology research.
Resource Recovery in Municipal Waste Waters provides various
municipal wastewater remediation methods and techniques to recover
materials from such wastewaters. Sections cover the basic
principles of resource recovery, along with the recovery of
methane, phosphorous, electricity and metals. The volume covers
comprehensive cutting-edge techniques for resource recovery and
municipal wastewater treatment and reports on new findings in these
areas. It also introduces polluted waters as new and sustainable
sources rather than seeing wastewaters as a source of hazardous
organic and inorganic matters. The main advantages and
disadvantages of both wastewater/polluted water treatment and
recovery are also discussed. This three-volume set stresses the
importance of contaminated waters remediation, including surface
waters, municipal or industrial wastewaters, treating these waters
as a new source of nutrients, minerals and energy.
Natural Organic Matter in Water: Characterization, Treatment
Methods, and Climate Change Impact, Second Edition focuses on
advanced filtration and treatment options, as well as processes for
reducing disinfection by-products, making it an essential resource
on the latest breakthroughs in the characterization, treatment and
removal of natural organic matter (NOM) from drinking water. Based
on the editor's years of research and field experience, the book
covers general parameters, isolation and concentration,
fractionation, composition and structural analysis, and biological
testing, along with removal methods such as inorganic coagulants,
polyelectrolytes and composite coagulants. In addition, sections
cover electrochemical and membranes removal methods such as
electrocoagulation, electrochemical oxidation, microfiltration and
ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, and membrane fouling. This book is
a valuable guide for engineers and researchers looking to integrate
methods, processes and technologies to achieve desired affects.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and conversion to value added
products, such as chemicals, polymers, and carbon-based fuels
represents a promising approach to transform a potential threat to
the environment into a value-added product for long term
sustainability. Emerging Carbon Capture Technologies: Towards a
Sustainable Future provides a multidisciplinary view of the
research that is being carried out in this field, covering
materials and processes for CO2 capture and utilization and
including a broad discussion of the impact of novel technologies in
carbon capture on the energy landscape, society and climate. Of
interest to students, researchers and professionals in industries
related to greenhouse gas mitigation, post-combustion CO2 capture
processes, coal-fired power plants, environmental sustainability,
green solvents, green technologies, and the utilization of clean
energy for environmental protection, this book covers both the
experimental and theoretical aspects of novel materials and process
development providing a holistic approach toward a sustainable
energy future.
This book highlights one of the most important water pollutants
known as Microplastics. It has been reported that humans and the
environment are dealing with microplastics particles in water and
aquatic media. Despite the fact that such pollution might have
mainly started out from the sea, it is now in lakes, rivers, ponds
and even drinking water. This book presents as overview of
microplastics in freshwater environments in different regions
around the world. It discusses the ecotoxicological effects of
microplastics, the removal/remediation techniques of microplastics
and the role of water/wastewater treatment plants in spreading
microplastics. This book is a valuable resource, covering wide
aspects of microplastics from sources, detection and
characterization to removal and their fate in treatment plants.
Traditional and Novel Adsorbents for Antibiotics Removal from
Wastewater describes, in detail, the importance of removing
antibiotics from aqueous systems, along with new information on
their variation, solubility, toxicology and allowable concentration
in groundwater. The book covers adsorption as an applicable method,
highlighting its advantages and disadvantages. It investigates
various adsorbents ranging from traditional activated carbons,
modified forms of clays, metal oxides, polymer resins, and more
advanced materials such as graphene-based, MOF, nano-matrices, and
composite materials as potential sorbents for the adsorption of
antibiotics from aqueous solutions. In addition, the book covers
biological microorganisms that have been used to remove antibiotics
from wastewater and presents biopolymers, biowaste and living cells
potentially and practically suitable for this purpose. For all
adsorbents, the book explains preparation methods, main properties,
modification techniques to increase antibiotic removal efficiency,
mechanisms in antibiotic removal, advantages and limitations. It
also presents adsorption-desorption in batch and continuous mode,
optimized operating parameters, kinetic and equilibrium adsorption,
and regeneration studies.
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. Topics covered include
an overview of pollutants and treatment methods, an extended
introduction to electrochemical processes in water treatment,
electrochemical oxidation (including electrodesinfection,
electrochemical reduction, electrocoagulation, electroflotation,
and electrodialysis. In addition, emerging and combined methods are
presented, as is a discussion on the available equipment necessary
to scale up the operation of all methods. Electrochemical
technologies have many common issues in terms of design, operation
and performance. This book brings together a wealth of information
on all different methods in a single source to provide broad
insights and enable the connection between challenges and
opportunities for different methods. The combination of technical
information, design and case studies offered helps researchers
better understand the challenges associated with scale up and
implementation.
The Circular Economy: Case Studies about the Transition from the
Linear Economy explores examples of the circular economy in action.
Unlike other books that provide narrow perceptions of wide-ranging
and highly interconnected paradigms, such as supply chains,
recycling, businesses models and waste management, this book
provides a comprehensive overview of the circular economy from
various perspectives. Its unique insights into the approaches,
methods and tools that enable people to make the transformation to
a circular economy show how recent research, trends and attitudes
have moved beyond the "call to arms" approach to a level of
maturity that requires sound scientific thinking.
Advanced Water Treatment: Adsorption discusses the application of
adsorption in water purification. The book reviews research
findings on the preparation of five different
nano/microcellulose-based adsorbents, their characterization, the
study of adsorption kinetics and isotherms, the determination of
adsorption mechanisms, and an evaluation of adsorbents'
regeneration properties. The book describes modification
microfibrillated cellulose (MFC), the use of succinic anhydride
modified mercerized nanocellulose, and aminosilane and
hydroxyapatite modified nanostructured MFC for the removal of heavy
metals from aqueous solutions. Final sections describe the use of
aminosilane, epoxy and hydroxyapatite modified MFC as a promising
alternative for H2S removal from aqueous solutions, along with new
findings on the adsorption properties of carbonated hydroxyapatite
modified MFC as multifunctional adsorbent for the removal of both
cations and anions ions from water.
Advanced Water Treatment: Advanced Oxidation Processes reviews the
most recent research findings and discusses new photocatalysts
(such as TiO2, etc.) and their performance under different
conditions. Furthermore, the book includes the use of UV LEDs (with
H2O2) for the decomposition of organic pollutants and bacteria in
various conditions and water samples. Advanced oxidation processes
(AOPs) have widely been used in water and wastewater treatment.
This book highlights their work towards improving energy-efficient
and environmentally friendly technology for growing needs in water
treatment.
Advanced Water Treatment: Electrochemical Methods reviews the
current state-of-the-art in the electrochemical-based methods for
water treatment, the effectiveness of the electrochemical oxidation
technique in inactivating different primary biofilm forming paper
mill bacteria, as well as sulfide and organic material in pulp and
paper mill wastewater in laboratory-scale batch experiments.
Various electrodes are described, including boron-doped diamond,
mixed metal oxide, PbO2, and their impacts on inactivation
efficiency of parameters, such as current density and initial pH or
chloride concentration of synthetic paper machine water. The
mechanisms of action of various electrodes in different systems are
reported. The book is a source of information for environmental and
chemical engineers due to the number of methods and
industry-focused application cases and researchers who study the
transition from a laboratory environment to practical applications.
Approximately 77 percent of the freshwater used in the United
States comes from surface-water sources and is subject to natural
organic matter contamination according to the United States
Geological Survey. This presents a distinct challenge to water
treatment engineers. An essential resource to the latest
breakthroughs in the characterization, treatment and removal of
natural organic matter (NOM) from drinking water, Natural Organic
Matter in Waters: Characterization and Treatment Methods focuses on
advance filtration and treatment options, and processes for
reducing disinfection byproducts. Based on the author's years of
research and field experience, this book begins with the
characterization of NOM including: general parameters, isolation
and concentration, fractionation, composition and structural
analysis and biological testing. This is followed by removal
methods such as inorganic coagulants, polyelectrolytes and
composite coagulants. Electrochemical and membranes removal methods
such as: electrocoagulation, electrochemical oxidation,
microfiltration and ultrafiltration, nanofiltration and membrane
fouling.
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