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Electronic Waste Management and Treatment Technology

  • 1st Edition - March 6, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad, Meththika Vithanage
  • Language: English

Electronic Waste Management and Treatment Technology applies the latest research for designing waste treatment and disposal strategies. Written for researchers who are exploring… Read more

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Description

Electronic Waste Management and Treatment Technology applies the latest research for designing waste treatment and disposal strategies. Written for researchers who are exploring this emerging topic, the book begins with a short, but rigorous, discussion of electric waste management that outlines common hazardous materials. such as mercury, lead, silver and flame-retardants. The book also discusses the fate of metals contained in waste electrical and electronic equipment in municipal waste treatment. Materials and methods for the remediation, recycling and treatment of plastic waste collected from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are also covered.

Finally, the book covers the depollution benchmarks for capacitors, batteries and printed circuit boards from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and the recovery of waste printed circuit boards through pyrometallurgy.

Key features

  • Describes depollution benchmarks for capacitors, batteries and printed wiring boards from waste electronics
  • Covers metals contained in waste electrical and electronic equipment in municipal waste
  • Provides tactics for the recycling of mixed plastic waste from electrical and electronic equipment

Readership

Civil/Environmental Engineers and Environmental Scientists, Chemical Engineers, Material Engineers and Scientists, and Ecologists

Table of contents

1. Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE): Flows, quantities and management, a global scenario

2. Inventorisation of E-Waste and Emerging trends in E-waste disposal with bench marks for depollution - global scenario

3. An overview of methods used for estimating e-waste amount

4. Network design for e-waste management

5. Environmental management of e-waste

6. Biorecovery of precious metal nanoparticles from electronic waste

7. Bioleaching of electronic waste using extreme acidophiles

8. Resource recovery from E-waste for environmental sustainability

9. Biotechnological initiatives in E-waste Management: Recycling and business opportunities

10. Hydrometallurgical Recovery of Metals from E-waste

11. Recovery of waste printed circuit boards through pyrometallurgy

12. E-waste Management in Australia: Current Status

13. Environmental management of E-waste in China

14. Chemical hazards associated with treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment

15. Environmental contamination and health effects due to e-waste recycling

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 14, 2019
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad

Dr. Prasad is Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad (India). He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of bioremediation, bioresources, biomass energy sources, bioeconomy, and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology, all of which are his main areas of expertise. Dr. Prasad has served the Government of India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change as a member of various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist for several international universities.

Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor and Former Dean, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

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Meththika Vithanage

Dr. Meththika Vithanage is a Professor in the Department of Geochemistry at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark. Her work centers on quantifying concentrations and reaction kinetics of key and emerging pollutants, including microplastics, and Persistent, Mobile and Toxic contaminants. She advances understanding of their environmental fate and transport and develops remediation strategies using innovative geo-, bio-, and nanomaterials.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark

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