Overview
- Covers aspects such as life-cycle assessment of metal recovery from electronic waste and adsorption technology for removal of toxic pollutants
- Looks into Leaching and recovery of metals from metallic industrial sludges, dusts and residues and more
- Provides case-studies pertaining to the use of sustainable technologies for heavy metal removal and recovery from mining and metallurgical wastes, construction and demolition wastes, spent catalysts and electronic wastes
Part of the book series: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World (ECSW, volume 9)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book presents an assortment of case-studies pertaining to the use of sustainable technologies for heavy metal removal and recovery from mining and metallurgical wastes, construction and demolition wastes, spent catalysts and electronic wastes.
Wastewaters from diverse industrial and mining activities have caused pollution problems, but these sectors also serve as a hotspot for metal recovery. Several metal removal technologies based on physical, chemical and biological processes have been successfully implemented in full-scale operation, while metal recovery, which is beneficial for economic and environmental reasons, is still limited due to challenges arising from downstream processing. For instance, microbial recovery (bioleaching) of metals from their ores is an established technology with a number of full-scale applications. Bioleaching of electronic wastes to recover metals is also a highly promising technology with low environmental impact and high cost-effectiveness; yet, this technology is still at its infancy.
As the individual chapters of this book focuses on the applications and limitations of different technologies, this book will serve as an excellent resource for chemical engineers, environmental engineers, mining engineers, biotechnologists, graduate students and researchers in these areas.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Heavy Metal Remediation
Book Subtitle: Volume 2: Case studies
Editors: Eldon R. Rene, Erkan Sahinkaya, Alison Lewis, Piet N.L. Lens
Series Title: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61146-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61145-7Published: 25 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87015-1Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61146-4Published: 13 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2213-7114
Series E-ISSN: 2213-7122
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 278
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Health, Waste Management/Waste Technology