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Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment

Waste Water Treatment of Leather Industry

  • 1st Edition - November 23, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Angelo Basile, Alfredo Cassano, Sirshendu De, Sourav Mondal
  • Language: English

Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment: Wastewater Treatment in the Leather Industry provides a state-of-the-art overview of conventional and emerging technologies for the t… Read more

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Description

Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment: Wastewater Treatment in the Leather Industry provides a state-of-the-art overview of conventional and emerging technologies for the treatment of wastewater originating from the leather industry. The book pays special attention to the efficiency of these technologies as well as on environmental control strategies. It focuses specifically on wastewater management and recovery of primary resources in the leather industry providing the latest developments in this field as well as applications of conventional and emerging technologies.

The book is an indispensable resource for (post) PhD students, researchers at universities and research centers, as well as for professors in chemical engineering and chemistry at technical universities

Key features

  • Includes the latest developments on the treatment of wastewater from leather industry
  • Describes emerging technologies for pollution control
  • Studies the integration of conventional and innovative procedures to decrease waste, energy, and water use

Readership

Post-graduate students and academic researchers in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, R&D Companies and Institutions, R&D managers in industry interested in advanced technologies used in wastewater treatment from leather industry

Table of contents

1. Wastewaters from leather industry: an overview

2. Recovery of valuable material from tannery wastewater
Bianca Maria Bresolin

3. Eco-friendly leather wastewater management technologies and environmental impact
Chandan, Amit Baran, Vaibav Vasant Das, Das and Goud

4. Chromium recovery from tannery wastewaters
Indrasis Das and S.V. Srinivasan

5. Membrane based technologies for treatment of leather industry wastewater

6. Advanced oxidation processes applied to leather tanning wastewater
Giusy Lofrano

7. Biological treatment for leather industry wastewater
Tamal Mandal

8. Adsorption based technologies for treatment of leather industry wastewater
Monoj Kumar Mondal

9. Electrochemical treatment of leather wastewater
Mihir Kumar Purkait

10. Life cycle assessment as a tool for the environmental improvement of leather industry

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 28, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Angelo Basile

Angelo Basile, a Chemical Engineer with a Ph.D. in Technical Physics, was a senior Researcher at the ITM-CNR as a responsible for the research related to both ultra-pure hydrogen production and CO2 capture using Pd-based Membrane Reactors. He is a reviewer for 165 int. journals, an editor/author of more than 50 scientific books and 140 chapters on international books on membrane science and technology; with various patens (7 Italian, 2 European, and 1 worldwide). He is a referee of 1more than 150 international scientific journals and a Member of the Editorial Board of more than 20 of them. Basile is also an associate editor of the: Int. J. Hydrogen Energy; Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Eng.; journal Frontiers in Membrane Science and Technology; and co-Editor-in-chief of the Int. J. Membrane Science & Technol.

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, ITM-CNR, University of Calabria, Italy

AC

Alfredo Cassano

Alfredo Cassano, a Biologist, is senior Researcher at ITM-CNR since 2000. He has a long experience in the field of membrane science and technology with research expertise including pressure-driven membrane processes, membrane contactors and integrated membrane operations mainly applied to wastewater treatments and agro-food productions. Cassano also prepared 4 special issues on membrane science and technology for 3 international journals (Membranes, Foods and Journal of Membrane Science and Research). He is involved as scientific responsible or main investigator in different national projects with both Italian Ministry of Education, University & Research and private companies and international projects funded by EU. He has been tutoring of 28 Thesis for master and Ph.D. students at ITM-CNR.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, Institute on Membrane Technology of the Italian National Research Council, ITM-CNR, University of Calbria, Rende, Italy

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Sirshendu De

Sirshendu De did his B. Tech (1990), M. Tech (1993) and PhD (1997) from Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. His main research interest includes membrane separation, membrane casting and applications, process developments, modeling and design; flow modeling, heat and mass transfer in microchannel, mathematic modeling of different Chemical Engineering processes. He has authored 8 books, 16 patents, 333 publications in journals of repute and handled 45 research projects and transferred 4 technologies for commercialization to six companies. He has guided 25 PhD and 70+ M. Tech students. Prof. De has been awarded several awards, including Institute Chair Professorship, 2020, Abdul Kalam Fellowship for Innovative Research 2017, Innovation Award from Indian Desalination Association 2016, INAE Chair Professorship 2015, Innovation Award by Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers 2015, Lockheed-Martin top 10 innovation 2015, NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award (2013), INAE Silver Jubilee Award (2012), DAE-SRC Young Investigator Award (2012), Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in “Engineering Science” by CSIR, Govt of India (2011), Herdillia Award (2010). He is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineers, New Delhi and The National Academy of Sciences, India, Allahabad. He is the founder of the spin-off company M/s, Technoquips Separation Pvt. Ltd.
Affiliations and expertise
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Department of Chemical Engineering, Kharagpur, India

SM

Sourav Mondal

Sourav Mondal did his PhD from IIT Kharagpur (2015) on mass transport phenomena related to filtration systems. Thereafter he had a post-doctoral stint at the mathematical institute of Oxford University (UK) working on advanced fluid flow problems in engineering. Currently he is the assistant professor at the chemical engineering in IIT Kharagpur. His current research interests are broadly in the domain of fluid dynamics and transport phenomena, related to flow in porous medium, membrane filtration, computational fluid dynamics and mass transport in separation systems. He has authored 50 international peer reviewed journal publications and 3 monographs. He is the recipient of INAE Young Engineers Award in 2021. He was awarded the Oxford University (UK) vice-chancellor innovation award in 2018.
Affiliations and expertise
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Department of Chemical Engineering, Kharagpur, India

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