Nanotechnology for Water and Wastewater Treatment

Piet Lens, Jurate Virkutyte, Veeriah Jegatheesan, S. Al-Abed, Seung-Hyun Kim

• Publisher: IWA Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781780404585
• eBook ISBN:
  9781780404592
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

The rapid development of nanoscience enables a technology revolution that will soon impact virtually every facet of the water sector. Yet, there is still too little understanding of what nanoscience and nanotechnology is, what can it do and whether to fear it or not, even among the educated public as well as scientists and engineers from other disciplines. Despite the numerous books and textbooks available on the subject, there is a gap in the literature that bridges the space between the synthesis (conventional and more greener methods) and use (applications in the drinking water production, wastewater treatment and environmental remediation fields) of nanotechnology on the one hand and its potential environmental implications (fate and transport of nanomaterials, toxicity, Life Cycle Assessments) on the other. Nanotechnology for Water and Wastewater Treatment explores these topics with a broad-based multidisciplinary scope and can be used by engineers and scientists outside the field and by students at both undergraduate and post graduate level. 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• List of Contributors
• Chapter 1: Nanotechnology for water and wastewater treatment: potentials and limitations
• Chapter 2: Environmental and human health effects of nanomaterials used in water and waste water treatment
• Chapter 3: Life cycle assessment of nanomaterials: towards green nanotechnology
• Chapter 4: Physical and chemical analysis of nanoparticles
• Chapter 5: Mobility, fate and toxicity of nanomaterials/nanoparticles in water and wastewater
• Chapter 6: Effective phosphate removal using Ca-based layered double hydroxide nanomaterials
• Chapter 7: Recycling Mg(OH)2 nanoadsorbents during the removal of heavy metals from wastewater using Cr(VI) as an example
• Chapter 8: Visible-light active doped titania for water purification: nitrogen and silver doping
• Chapter 9: Pd nanocatalysts for PCB removal
• Chapter 10: Activated carbon-supported palladized iron nanoparticles: applications to contaminated site remediation
• Chapter 11: Microbial manufactured silver nanoparticles for water disinfection
• Chapter 12: Electrospun nanofibrous membranes for water treatment applications
• Chapter 13: Porous ceramic and metallic microreactors
• Chapter 14: Biomimetic membranes for water separation applications
• Chapter 15: Functionalised graphene: a novel platform for biosensors
• Chapter 16: Nanoparticle based sensors for water quality testing
• Chapter 17: Green synthesis of nanoparticles and nanomaterials
• Chapter 18: Plant-based nanoparticle manufacturing
• Index