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Nanoremediation

Modern Technologies for Treatment of Environmental Pollutants

  • 1st Edition - February 7, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Nashaat N. Nassar, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
  • Language: English

Nanoremediation: Modern Technologies for Treatment of Environmental Pollutants is a comprehensive reference that highlights established nano-remediation practices, discusses… Read more

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Description

Nanoremediation: Modern Technologies for Treatment of Environmental Pollutants is a comprehensive reference that highlights established nano-remediation practices, discusses their rapidly emerging applications in industry, and points out future research directions. The book provides researchers and scientists in academia and industry with a high-tech start-up that will revolutionize modern remediation practices. It condenses all relevant information on nano-remediation and provides an amalgamation of the latest trends in the field. In addition, the book handles the design and modeling of nano-remediation processes and the trends and challenges that nano-remediation is facing in various sectors.

Special attention is given to approaches that lead to green and sustainable industrial developments, as well as to the legal, economical and toxicity aspects of nano-remediation.

Key features

  • Presents the latest knowledge on origin, identification and utilization of nanotechnology in bioremediation techniques
  • Details all processes discovered so far for nano-remediation as modern technology for environmental pollutants
  • Explores nanotechnology as a green solution for the treatment of environmental pollutants

Readership

Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and scientists in chemical engineering involved in environmental remediation, scientists and researchers working in (chemical) industry on commercial scale exploration of remediation

Table of contents

PART I INTRODUCTION

1. Nano Perception in the Remediation Arena

Part II NANOREMEDIATION WITH PROCESSES

2. Application of nanomaterials for adsorptive removal of various pollutants from water bodies

3. Integrating Ecofriendly Nanomaterials in Deep-bed Filtration for Cleaning up Industrial Wastewater

4. Photocatalysis: TiO 2, ZnO, and Species of Iron Oxides

5. Nanoscale silver enabled drinking water disinfection system

6. Disinfection using nanosilver/titanium dioxide (Ag/TiO2) and CNTs

7. Environmental applications of graphitic carbon nitride

8. ElectroKinetic–Nanoremediation

9. Natural, Biosynthesized, Polymeric, and other RemediationNanoreagents

10. Environmental remediation utilization of polyurethanes/carbon nanomaterial nanocomposites

PART III NANOBIOREMEDIATION

11. Microbial Nanotechnology

12. Nanobioremediation-New directions for environmental protection

13. Emerging trends in NANOBIOREMEDIATION

PART-IV GREEN NANOTECHNOLOGY

14. Future of Modern Society & Sustainability

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 7, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Nashaat N. Nassar

Nashaat N. Nassar is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary. He is an internationally recognized leader within the fields of nanotechnology for energy and environmental applications. The main goal of his research is to improve oil and gas quality, reduce gaseous emissions and advance water recyclability using innovative technologies. He has been widely recognized through several awards including the first place Global Research Initiative (GRI) Concept to Commercialization award (2019) and Emerging Leader in Chemical Engineering National Award (2018). Dr. Nassar’s has written more than 100 peer-reviewed journal papers published or in press, given more than 150 technical presentations, edited two books, and filed six patents.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada

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Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain

Prof. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, PhD, is an adjunct professor and director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, United States. His research focuses on sustainability, the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry and other various industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor of around 200 books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas. He has published with ELSEVIER, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, CRC Press, and Springer.

Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor and Director of Chemistry & EVSC Labs, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA

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