Overview
- Provides comprehensive reviews on heavy metal removal
- Includes nanotechnology -based heavy metal remediation techniques
- Discusses heavy metal sources, their health risks, remediation methods, opportunities and challenges
Part of the book series: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World (ECSW, volume 53)
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About this book
Pollution of waters by toxic metals is accelerating worldwide due to industrial and population growth, notably in countries having poor environmental laws, resulting in many diseases such as cancer. Classical remediation techniques are limited. This books reviews new, advanced or improved techniques for metal removal, such as hybrid treatments, nanotechnologies and unconventional adsorbents, e.g. metal-organic frameworks. Contaminants include rare earth elements, arsenic, lead, cadmium, chromium, copper and effluents from the electronic, textile, agricultural and pharmaceutical industries.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Mohd Imran Ahamed received his Ph.D degree on the topic "Synthesis and characterization of inorganic-organic composite heavy metals selective cation-exchangers and their analytical applications", from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India in 2019.He has published several research and review articles in the journals of international recognition. He has also edited various books which are published by Springer, CRC Press Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific and Materials Science Forum LLC, U.S.A. He has completed his B.Sc. (Hons) Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, and M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry) from Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra, India. His research work includes ion-exchange chromatography, wastewater treatment, and analysis, bending actuator and electrospinning.
Dr. Eric Lichtfouse is a biogeochemist at Aix Marseille University who has invented carbon-13 dating, a molecular-level method allowing to study the dynamics of organic compounds in temporal pools of complex environmental media. He is Chief Editor of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters, and the book series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews and Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World. He is the author of the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals, which includes an innovative writing tool: the Micro-Article.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Water Pollution and Remediation: Heavy Metals
Editors: Inamuddin, Mohd Imran Ahamed, Eric Lichtfouse
Series Title: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52421-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52420-3Published: 19 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52423-4Published: 19 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52421-0Published: 18 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2213-7114
Series E-ISSN: 2213-7122
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 581
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 68 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Environmental Chemistry