Electronic Waste Management and Treatment Technology
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Electronic Waste Management and Treatment Technology

1st Edition - March 6, 2019

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  • Editors: Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad, Meththika Vithanage
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780128161906
  • eBook ISBN: 9780128165911

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Description

Electronic Waste Management and Treatment Technology applies the latest research for designing waste treatment and disposal strategies. Written for researchers who are exploring this emerging topic, the book begins with a short, but rigorous, discussion of electric waste management that outlines common hazardous materials. such as mercury, lead, silver and flame-retardants. The book also discusses the fate of metals contained in waste electrical and electronic equipment in municipal waste treatment. Materials and methods for the remediation, recycling and treatment of plastic waste collected from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are also covered. Finally, the book covers the depollution benchmarks for capacitors, batteries and printed circuit boards from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and the recovery of waste printed circuit boards through pyrometallurgy.

Key Features

  • Describes depollution benchmarks for capacitors, batteries and printed wiring boards from waste electronics
  • Covers metals contained in waste electrical and electronic equipment in municipal waste
  • Provides tactics for the recycling of mixed plastic waste from electrical and electronic equipment

Readership

Civil/Environmental Engineers and Environmental Scientists, Chemical Engineers, Material Engineers and Scientists, and Ecologists

Table of Contents

  • 1. Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE): Flows, quantities and management, a global scenario
    2. Inventorisation of E-Waste and Emerging trends in E-waste disposal with bench marks for depollution - global scenario
    3. An overview of methods used for estimating e-waste amount
    4. Network design for e-waste management
    5. Environmental management of e-waste
    6. Biorecovery of precious metal nanoparticles from electronic waste
    7. Bioleaching of electronic waste using extreme acidophiles
    8. Resource recovery from E-waste for environmental sustainability
    9. Biotechnological initiatives in E-waste Management: Recycling and business opportunities
    10. Hydrometallurgical Recovery of Metals from E-waste
    11. Recovery of waste printed circuit boards through pyrometallurgy
    12. E-waste Management in Australia: Current Status
    13. Environmental management of E-waste in China
    14. Chemical hazards associated with treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment
    15. Environmental contamination and health effects due to e-waste recycling

Product details

  • No. of pages: 405
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2019
  • Published: March 6, 2019
  • Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780128161906
  • eBook ISBN: 9780128165911

About the Editors

Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad

M.N.V. Prasad is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Hyderabad. He has served the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India in various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist in several international universities. He is the editor, co-editor, or author of 15 books and 95 journal articles (with over 6277 journal citations and h-index 41 as per google scholar). He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of Bioremediation, Bioresources, Biomass energy sources, bioeconomy and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology (including value chain and value addition products from plants used in phytoremediation) and bioremediation are his main areas of expertise.

Affiliations and Expertise

Emeritus Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India

Meththika Vithanage

Meththika Suharshini Vithanage’s contribution to science has been recognized by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) presenting the Fayzah M. Al-Kharafi award in 2020. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Sri Lanka and Institute of Chemistry, Ceylon. She was selected as one of the Early Career Women Scientists by the Organization for Women Scientists in Developing Countries, Italy. Additionally, she received the Best Graduate Researcher Award for Natural Hazards by the American Geophysical Union in 2010. Her outstanding performance in research publications was recognized by the Presidential Awards, Sri Lanka for 8 consecutive years from 2011. She has co-edited 4 books with Elsevier Inc in 2019 and 2020.

Affiliations and Expertise

Senior Lecturer, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

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