Anaerobic-anoxic-oxic (A2/O) is one of the most widely used processes in municipal wastewater treatment plants for simultaneous biological nitrogen...

Wastewater treatment represents a continuous challenge for engineers, environmental scientists and regulators. Today, an increasing number of new c...

Hazardous waste is a waste with properties that make it dangerous or potentially harmful to human health or the environment. Hazardous waste genera...

Hazardous waste is a waste with properties that make it dangerous or potentially harmful to human health or the environment. Hazardous waste genera...

Conventional wastewater treatment processes are expensive and require complex operations and maintenance. They also generate large volumes of secon...

This book first explores the decolourization and biodegradation of three primary dyes employed in the textile industry, namely methyl red, methyl o...

A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial. Historically, landfills have been the most common methods of organised waste di...

In chapter one, Abdelhakim El Maguiri, Yassine Zegzouti, Salah Souabi, Laila Idrissi, Miloud El Hadek, and Mohamed Hafidi discuss result, initiativ...

Although several countries have been introducing more stringent laws to reduce the amount of waste to be land-filled, in an attempt to maximise rec...

This book offers a detailed overview of low cost adsorbents for Cd(II) removal from wastewater, namely agricultural and industrial wastes, activate...

Residues containing Cr (VI) are classified as toxic and hazardous residues by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Cr (VI) could easily le...

Residues containing Cr (VI) are classified as toxic and hazardous residues by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Cr (VI) could easily le...

In this collection, the authors open with a review of current state of the art methods for the recovery and reuse of selected monomers and biomacro...

Solid waste has grown into a relatively difficult problem to solve for those responsible for its management; these responsibilities include the col...

Currently, the management of solid waste represents a major economic and environmental issue throughout the world. Trends in waste generation show ...

Hazardous waste is a waste with properties that make it dangerous or potentially harmful to human health or the environment. Hazardous waste genera...

Hazardous waste is a waste with properties that make it dangerous or potentially harmful to human health or the environment. Hazardous waste genera...

Congressional interest in nuclear waste is generally focused on managing commercial spent nuclear fuel (SNF), the waste produced from commercial nu...

The accumulation of solid organic waste is thought to be reaching critical levels in almost all regions of the world. Organic waste needs to be man...

USDA and Interior manage over 600 million acres of land, including sites contaminated from prior uses or events, such as mining or toxic spills. Th...

Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced...

Medical exposure to ionising radiation remains by far the largest contributor to the radiation dose from manmade sources of radiation. Strategies f...

Most books available in the market related to this area consider the use of recycled aggregate only for low-grades of concrete applications. This b...