Green Technologies for Industrial Contaminants
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Green Technologies for Industrial Contaminants

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Green Technologies for Industrial Contaminants

About this book

Green Technologies for Industrial Contaminants is essential for understanding innovative, eco-friendly solutions to combat the pressing challenges of pollution and water scarcity faced by our planet.

Increasing population, environmental pollution, rampant industrialization, and scarcity of water are all major global threats. Significant amounts of pollutants are released from various industries such as textile, paper, leather, rubber, plastic, cosmetics, food, pharmaceuticals, and petroleum industries. A lack of proper treatment facilities has proliferated the discharge of effluents enriched with toxic pollutants such as dyes, heavy metals, organic compounds, and other hazardous chemicals in the environment. Water is a natural treasure and availability of safe and clean water is essential for human health, ecosystems, and sustainable development. The continuous decline of the groundwater table and deterioration of water quality are matters of serious concern. The presence of color in water poses a serious threat to the environment, affecting light penetration and reducing photosynthesis and dissolved oxygen. Most dyes and heavy metals are toxic in nature, which may cause skin irritation, allergies, respiratory disease, mental disorders, tumors, and cancer. Different physical and chemical methods are available for the treatment of industrial effluents but due to their high cost, low efficiency, and sludge generation, these methods are not feasible at large scale.

The synergistic approaches of biochar and microbes have an edge over other techniques, including being eco-friendly, cost-competitive and efficient, achieving complete mineralization, and showing low-waste production. Therefore, the combined application of biochar and microbes for pollutant degradation can be a viable option as it is a low-cost and sustainable effluent treatment system for industries. Green Technologies for Industrial Contaminants provides useful information and applications of microbes (bacteria, algae, fungi) and biochar for the removal of contaminants from industrial effluent and reutilization of waste sludge in the production of biofuel and bioenergy.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1 Membrane-Assisted Technologies for Treating Pulp and Paper Industry Wastewater
  8. Chapter 2 Review of Recent Advances in Hazardous Waste Management of Chemical and Textile Industries Using Microbial-Assisted/ Algae-Based Technologies
  9. Chapter 3 Environmental Contaminants: Sources, Types and Future Challenges: An Update
  10. Chapter 4 Efficacy of Microbes in the Removal of Pesticides from Watershed System
  11. Chapter 5 Emerging Environmental Contaminants: Sources, Consequences and Future Challenges
  12. Chapter 6 Microbial Degradation of Textile Dyes: A Sustainable Approach for Treatment of Industrial Effluents
  13. Chapter 7 Environmental Cleanup: Xenobiotic Degradation with Enzymes as Decontaminating Agents
  14. Chapter 8 Removal of Microplastics from Wastewater: An Approach towards a Sustainable Ecosystem
  15. Chapter 9 Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: Current Technologies for Removal from Aqueous Systems
  16. Chapter 10 Current Status on Emerging Soil Applications of Biochar
  17. Chapter 11 Microalgal Biorefineries: An Ingenious Framework towards Wastewater Treatment Coupled with Biofuel Production
  18. Chapter 12 Plastic Pollution: Microbial Degradation of Plastic Waste
  19. Index
  20. Also of Interest
  21. EULA