
New Trends in Removal of Heavy Metals from Industrial Wastewater
Description
Key Features
- Outlines the fate and occurrence of heavy metals in Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) and potential approaches for their removal
- Describes the techniques currently available for removing heavy metals from wastewater
- Discusses the emerging technologies in heavy metal removal
- Covers biological treatments to remove heavy metals
- Includes the valorization of heavy metal containing wastewater
Readership
Engineers, scientists who require an excellent introduction and basic knowledge to the principles of Environmental Bioremediation Technologies. Different professionals, mangers working or interested in the Environmental Microbiology or Bioremediation field
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Types of heavy metals and their effect in wastewater
3. Current physico-chemical treatment technologies available for remediation of different types of heavy metals from wastewater
4. Biological wastewater treatment technology; advancement and drawbacks for the remediation of heavy metals
5. Hurdles in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) performance optimization for the remediation of heavy metals
6. Role of bacteria and algae in remediation of heavy metals from WWTPs
7. Modified and new adsorbents for the removal of heavy metals from wastewater
8. Removal of heavy metals using bentonite clay and inorganic coagulants
9. Sustainable heavy metal remediation
10. Efficient techniques for the removal of toxic heavy metals from wastewater
11. Full-Scale implementation of a vertical membrane bioreactor for remediation of heavy metals from wastewater
12. Low-cost adsorbents, techniques and heavy metal removal efficiency
13. Removal of heavy metals from mine waters by natural zeolites
14. Functionalized magnetic nanoparticles for heavy metal removal from aqueous solutions: kinetics and equilibrium modelling
15. Heavy metals in water: presence, removal and safety
16. Mechanisms of heavy metal removal using microorganisms as biosorbents
17. Heavy metal removal by bioaccumulation using genetically engineered microorganisms
18. Genetic engineering of Escherichia coli for enhanced uptake and bioaccumulation of mercury
19. New trends in removing heavy metals from industrial wastewater
20. The construction of an engineered bacterium to remove cadmium from wastewater
21. Genetic engineering of bacteria and their potential for heavy metal bioremediation
22. Biosorption and bioaccumulation - the prospects for practical applications
23. Batch and continuous removal of heavy metals from industrial effluents using microbial consortia
Product details
- No. of pages: 748
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2021
- Published: April 23, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128231081
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128229651
About the Editors
Maulin Shah
Affiliations and Expertise
Susana Rodriguez-Couto
Affiliations and Expertise
Vineet Kumar
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