Editors:
- Describes physico-chemical and biological technologies implemented in practice to prevent and control the discharge of industrial heavy metal emissions
- Covers aspects on principles, underlying mechanisms, thermodynamic functions, kinetics and modeling of different sustainable technologies used to treat heavy metal contaminated effluents
- 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 8)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book covers the principles, underlying mechanisms, thermodynamic functions, kinetics and modeling aspects of sustainable technologies, particularly from the standpoint of applying physical, chemical and biological processes for the treatment of wastewater polluted with heavy metals. Particular emphasis has been given to technologies that are based on adsorption, electro-coagulation, bio-precipitation, bio-solubilization, phytoremediation and microbial electrolysis.
Metal contamination in the environment is one of the persisting global issues. The adverse health effects of heavy metals on human beings and its impact on the environment has been well-documented. Several physico-chemical and biological technologies have been successfully implemented to prevent and control the discharge of industrial heavy metal emissions. On the contrary, metal resource depletion has also accelerated dramatically during the 20th century due to rapid advances in industrial engineering and medical sciences, which requires large amount of raw materials.
To meet the global metal demand, in recent years, novel research lines have started to focus on the recovery of metals from metal contaminated waste streams. In order to conflate both metal removal and recovery, new technologies have been successfully tested, both at the lab and pilot-scale. The target audience of this book primarily comprises of research experts, practicing engineers in the field of environmental/chemical technology and graduate students.
Editors and Affiliations
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UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands
Eldon R. Rene, Piet N.L. Lens
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Bioengineering Department, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey
Erkan Sahinkaya
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Faculty of EBE, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Alison Lewis
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Heavy Metal Remediation
Book Subtitle: Volume 1: Principles and Processes
Editors: Eldon R. Rene, Erkan Sahinkaya, Alison Lewis, Piet N.L. Lens
Series Title: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58622-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58621-2Published: 07 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86444-0Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58622-9Published: 24 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2213-7114
Series E-ISSN: 2213-7122
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 283
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Health, Waste Management/Waste Technology