Offering broad coverage of advanced principals and applications, Control of Heavy Metals in the Environment series provides chemical and environmental engineers with the most complete resource available on the treatment of heavy metal contaminants with an emphasis on advanced and alternative approaches. It investigates a variety of environmental pollution sources and waste characteristics that require a multitude of remediation methods. It covers metal oxide nanoparticle pollution and nanotechnology applications for remediation. The authors delve into costs and effluent standards and offer several illustrative case histories to illustrate the regional and global effects of key pollution control practices.

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Provides technical information for industrial and hazardous waste treatment.
Explores the newest methods of clean production and waste minimization.
Covers topics related to environmental geochemistry.
Includes numerous figures, tables, examples, and case histories.

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Technology & Engineering

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Environmental Science

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Technology & Engineering

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Editors
List of Contributors
Chapter 1 Environmental Metal Research Trends and Advances
Chapter 2 Toxicity and Sources of Pb, Cd, Hg, Cr, As, and Radionuclides in the Environment
Chapter 3 Heavy Metal Removal with Exopolysaccharide-Producing Cyanobacteria
Chapter 4 Environmental Geochemistry of High-Arsenic Aquifer Systems
Chapter 5 Nanotechnology Application in Metal Ion Adsorption
Chapter 6 Biosorption of Metals onto Granular Sludge
Chapter 7 Arsenic Pollution: Occurrence, Distribution, and Technologies
Chapter 8 Treatment of Metal-Bearing Effluents: Removal and Recovery
Chapter 9 Advances in the Management and Treatment of Acid Pickling Wastes Containing Heavy Metals
Chapter 10 Advances in the Treatment and Management of Metal Finishing Industry Wastes
Chapter 11 Use of Biosorption of Agro-Industrial Wastes and Microorganisms for Removal of Potentially Toxic Metals
Chapter 12 Advances in Removal of Heavy Metals from Contaminated Soil
Chapter 13 Advances in the Remediation of Metal Finishing Brownfield Sites
Chapter 14 Biological Treatment of Mercury-Polluted Wastewater
Chapter 15 Bioassay Technology, Terminologies, Applications, and Examples: Heavy Metals and Phenol Investigations
Chapter 16 Pollutants, Technologies, and Terminologies for Emission Control in Transportation Industry
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