Heavy Metals in the Environment
eBook - ePub

Heavy Metals in the Environment

  1. 516 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Heavy Metals in the Environment

About this book

A successful modern heavy metal control program for any industry will include not only traditional water pollution control, but also air pollution control, soil conservation, site remediation, groundwater protection, public health management, solid waste disposal, and combined industrial-municipal heavy metal waste management. In fact, it should be a total environmental control program. Comprehensive in scope, Heavy Metals in the Environment provides technical and economical information on the development of a feasible total heavy metal control program that can benefit industry and local municipalities.

The book discusses the importance and contamination of metals such as lead, chromium, cadmium, zinc, copper, nickel, iron, and mercury. It covers important research of metals in the environment, the processes and mechanisms for metals control and removal, the environmental behavior and effects of engineered metal and metal oxide nanoparticles, environmental geochemistry of high arsenic aquifer systems, nano-technology applications in metal ion adsorption, biosorption of metals, and heavy metal removal by expopolysaccharide-producing cyanobacteria. The authors delineate technologies for metals treatment and management, metal bearing effluents, metal-contaminated solid wastes, metal finishing industry wastes and brownfield sites, and arsenic-contaminated groundwater streams. They also discuss control, treatment, and management of metal emissions from motor vehicles.

The authors reflect the breadth of the field and draw on personal experiences to provide an in-depth presentation of environmental pollution sources, waste characteristics, control technologies, management strategies, facility innovations, process alternatives, costs, case histories, effluent standards, and future trends for each industrial or commercial operation. The methodologies and technologies discussed are directly applicable to the waste management problems that must be met in all industries.

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Yes, you can access Heavy Metals in the Environment by Lawrence K. Wang,Jiaping Paul Chen,Yung-Tse Hung,Nazih K. Shammas, Lawrence K. Wang, Jiaping Paul Chen, Yung-Tse Hung, Nazih K. Shammas in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Chemical & Biochemical Engineering. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Editors
  9. Contributors
  10. Chapter 1 Metal Research Trends in the Environmental Field
  11. Chapter 2 Toxicity and Sources of Pb, Cd, Hg, Cr, As, and Radionuclides in the Environment
  12. Chapter 3 Environmental Behavior and Effects of Engineered Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
  13. Chapter 4 Heavy Metal Removal with Exopolysaccharide-Producing Cyanobacteria
  14. Chapter 5 Environmental Geochemistry of High-Arsenic Aquifer Systems
  15. Chapter 6 Nanotechnology Application in Metal Ion Adsorption
  16. Chapter 7 Biosorption of Metals onto Granular Sludge
  17. Chapter 8 Arsenic Pollution: Occurrence, Distribution, and Technologies
  18. Chapter 9 Treatment of Metal-Bearing Effluents: Removal and Recovery
  19. Chapter 10 Management and Treatment of Acid Pickling Wastes Containing Heavy Metals
  20. Chapter 11 Treatment and Management of Metal Finishing Industry Wastes
  21. Chapter 12 Recycling and Disposal of Hazardous Solid Wastes Containing Heavy Metals and Other Toxic Substances
  22. Chapter 13 Management and Removal of Heavy Metals from Contaminated Soil
  23. Chapter 14 Remediation of Metal Finishing Brownfield Sites
  24. Chapter 15 Control, Management, and Treatment of Metal Emissions from Motor Vehicles
  25. Index