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Cost Effective Technologies for Solid Waste and Wastewater Treatment

  • 1st Edition - November 3, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi, Srujana Kathi, Suja Devipriya, Kaliannan Thamaraiselvi
  • Language: English

Cost-Effective Technologies for Solid Waste and Wastewater Treatment synthesizes methods, case studies, and analyses of various state-of-the-art techniques for removing contam… Read more

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Cost-Effective Technologies for Solid Waste and Wastewater Treatment synthesizes methods, case studies, and analyses of various state-of-the-art techniques for removing contaminants from wastewater, solid waste, or sewage and converting or reusing the waste with minimum impact on the environment. Focusing on innovative treatment strategies, as well as recent modifications to conventional processes, the book covers methods for a complex variety of emerging pollutants, including organic matter, chemicals, and micropollutants resulting from developmental and industrial activities.

Serving as a practical guide to state-of-the-art methods, Cost-Effective Technologies for Solid Waste and Wastewater Treatment also delivers offers foundational information on the practical design of treatment and reuse systems and explains the treatments in terms of scale, efficiency, and effectiveness. It focuses on cost-effective technologies that are particularly applicable to environmental clean-up, such as bioaugmentation and biostimulation of plastics, activated carbon, phytoremediation, crude oil pollution stress, adsorbents, contaminants of emerging concern, anaerobic digestion, ISCO, biosorption, bioremediation, radioactive contaminants, constructed wetlands, nanoremediation, and rainwater. As such, it is a valuable and practical resource for researchers, students, and managers in the fields of environmental science and engineering, as well as wastewater management, chemical engineering, and biotechnology.

Key features

  • Presents low-cost treatment technologies for both solid waste and wastewater
  • Analyzes the efficiency and effectiveness of state-of-the-art technologies
  • Includes methods and case studies for practical application

Readership

Researchers, policymakers, and environmental managers in waste management, environmental science, and environmental engineering

Table of contents

1. An introduction to cost-effective technologies for solid waste and wastewater treatment
Madhuraj Palat Kannankai and Suja Purushothaman Devipriya

2. Bioaugmentation and biostimulation of dumpsites for plastic degradation: A critical insight
Shaileshkumar Baskaran and Mythili Sathiavelu

3. Bioremediation approach for treatment of soil contaminated with radiocesium
M. Srinivasulu, G. Narasimha, and A.J. Francis

4. Management of biodegradable waste through the production of single-cell protein
Rajeswari Uppala and Azhaguchamy Muthukumaran

5. Application of plant-based natural coagulants in water treatment
Arunkumar Patchaiyappan and Suja Purushothaman Devipriya

6. Recent applications of downflow hanging sponge technology for decentralized wastewater treatment
Mahmoud Nasr, Michael Attia, Hani Ezz, and Mona G. Ibrahim

7. Assessment of biochar application in decontamination of water and wastewater
Alaa El Din Mahmoud and Srujana Kathi

8. In situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) remediation: A focus on activated persulfate oxidation of pesticide-contaminated soil and groundwater
Rama Mohan Kurakalva

9. Composting of food waste: A novel approach
M. Anand, T.B. Anjali, K.B. Akhilesh, and John K. Satheesh

10. Biological pretreatment for enhancement of biogas production
Aishiki Banerjee, Binoy Kumar Show, Shibani Chaudhury, and S. Balachandran

11. Recent trends in bioremediation of pollutants by enzymatic approaches
M. Srinivasulu, M. Subhosh Chandra, Naga Raju Maddela, Narasimha Golla, and Bellamkonda Ramesh

12. Phytoremediation of heavy metals and petroleum hydrocarbons using Cynodon dactylon
Srujana Kathi

13. Proteobacteria response to heavy metal pollution stress and their bioremediation potential
Nyoyoko Veronica Fabian

14. Treatment of harvested rainwater and reuse: Practices, prospects, and challenges
Siril Singh, Rajni Yadav, Srujana Kathi, and Anand Narain Singh

15. Phytoremediation: A wonderful costeffective tool for the treatment of waste disposal
Rajni Yadav, Siril Singh, Abhishek Kumar, and Anand Narain Singh

16. Vermicomposting: An efficient technology for the stabilization and bioremediation of pulp and paper mill sludge
Subpiramaniyam Sivakumar, Kaliannan Thamaraiselvi, Duraisamy Prabha, Thyagarajan Lakshmi Priya, Hong Sung-Chul, Yi Pyoung-In, Jang Seong-Ho, and Suh Jeong-Min

17. Potential of solid waste prevention and minimization strategies
Anbarashan Padmavathy and Munisamy Anbarashan

18. Nanoremediation of pollutants: A conspectus of heavy metals degradation by nanomaterials
Nt Nandhini and Mythili Sathiavelu

19. Excess fluoride issues and mitigation using low-cost techniques from groundwater: A review
Adane Woldemedhin Kalsido, Beteley Tekola, Beshah Mogessie, and Esayas Alemayehu

20. Cost-effective biogenic-production of inorganic nanoparticles, characterizations, and their antimicrobial properties
Kishore Kumar Kadimpati and Narasimha Golla

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 3, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

MH

Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi is Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology from Zhejiang University, China. Dr. Hashmi’s research interests are analytical chemistry and the development of treatment technologies to control environmental and industrial pollution. He also has expertise in developing environmentally sustainable and feasible technologies including bioremediation, using innovative microbes and genes, plants, and microcosms. He has edited seven books, 14 book chapters, 80 original research articles and is currently series editor of two environmental contaminant book series. Dr. Hashmi is also an Associate Editor of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences. Dr. Hashmi is Member of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, International Toxicology Society, HEC and PSF Research Grants Committee, and has been awarded a KANS Prize in OIC countries by MUSTAFA Science and Technology Foundation.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University, Pakistan

SK

Srujana Kathi

Srujana Kathi is an independent researcher in the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences at Pondicherry University. Her interests range from environmental monitoring and assessment and phytoremediation to environmental epidemiology and cognitive neuroscience. She completed her doctoral thesis on Bioremediation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Soil at Pondicherry University. She has written multiple journal articles and book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
ICSSR Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Applied Psychology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

SD

Suja Devipriya

Suja P. Devipriya is Assistant Professor of Pondicherry University. She received her PhD in Environmental Technology from Cochin University of Science and Technology. Her primary areas of interest include environmental photocatalysis, environmental biotechnology, solid waste management, and industrial ecology. Previously, she was a Senior Research Fellow at Cochin University of Science and Technology, and then a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Bowling Green State University in the US.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, School of Environmental Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India

KT

Kaliannan Thamaraiselvi

K. Thamaraiselvi is Associate Professor of Environmental Biotechnology at Bharathidasan University. She received her Masters in Ecobiology and her PhD in Environmental Sciences from Bharathiar University. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at CIES in France and then a Research Professor at Yonsei University in South Korea. Since 2018, she has been an Executive Committee Member in the Clean Green Initiative at Bharathidasan University. Her areas of research include molecular bioremediation, bioenergy production, microbial biodiversity, environmental risk assessment, and nanobiotechnology. She has written more than 30 journal articles and 6 book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Environmental Biotechnology at Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India

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