This book provides in-depth coverage of environmental pollution sources, waste characteristics, control technologies, management strategies, facility innovations, process alternatives, costs, case histories, effluent standards, and future trends in waste treatment processes. It delineates methodologies, technologies, and the regional and global effects of important pollution control practices. It focuses on toxic heavy metals in the environment, various heavy metal decontamination technologies, brownfield restoration, and industrial, agricultural, and radioactive waste management. It discusses the importance of metals such as lead, chromium, cadmium, zinc, copper, nickel, iron, and mercury.

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Remediation of Heavy Metals in the Environment
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Remediation of Heavy Metals in the Environment
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Editors
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Toxicity, Sources, and Control of Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn), Molybdenum (Mo), Silver (Ag), and Rare Earth Elements in the Environment
- Chapter 2 Nano-Bioremediation: Applications of Nanotechnology for Bioremediation
- Chapter 3 Recycling of Filter Backwash Water and Alum Sludge from Water Utility for Reuse
- Chapter 4 Selection of Remedial Alternatives for Soil Contaminated with Heavy Metals
- Chapter 5 Removal of Heavy Metals by Low-Cost Adsorption Materials
- Chapter 6 Sulfide Precipitation for Treatment of Metal Wastes
- Chapter 7 Stabilization of Cadmium in Waste Incineration Residues by Aluminum/Iron-Rich Materials
- Chapter 8 Arsenic in the Environment: Source, Characteristics, and Technologies for Pollution Elimination
- Chapter 9 Simultaneous Removal of Chromium and Arsenate: A Case Study Using Ferrous Iron
- Chapter 10 E-Waste Recycling: Environmental and Health Impacts
- Chapter 11 Site Assessment and Cleanup Technologies of Metal Finishing Industry
- Chapter 12 Adsorptive Removal of Arsenic from Water Sources Using Novel Nanocomposite Mixed Matrix Membranes
- Chapter 13 Treatment of Photographic Processing Waste
- Chapter 14 Toxicity, Source, and Control of Barium in the Environment
- Chapter 15 Toxicity, Sources, and Control of Selenium, Nickel, and Beryllium in the Environment
- Index
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