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Animal Products

Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment

  • 1st Edition - June 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Angelo Basile, Alfredo Cassano, Mohammad Reza Rahimpour, Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, Soheila Zandi Lak
  • Language: English

Animal Products: Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment offers a rigorous, practically relevant exploration connecting fundamental science with applied engineering, highli… Read more

Description

Animal Products: Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment offers a rigorous, practically relevant exploration connecting fundamental science with applied engineering, highlighting mechanistic degradation pathways of proteins, fats, and oils, persistent pathogens, and antimicrobial resistance factors. By analyzing how effluent composition affects advanced treatment performance, the book links chemistry to process design and efficiency. It blends detailed analysis with case studies to illuminate environmental risks and technological opportunities inherent in these streams. Going beyond conventional methods, it showcases hybrid and integrated systems, advanced oxidation, electrochemical and membrane technologies, and emerging digital approaches such as data-driven modeling and AI for optimization.

Animal Products: Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment links scientific advances to industrial practice, demonstrating contributions to environmental sustainability, resource recovery, and the circular economy. It situates the discussion within regulatory frameworks, presenting strategies to meet stricter standards, reduce ecological footprints, and valorize wastewater for energy and products across animal-product industries worldwide.

Key features

  • Analyses characteristics and contaminants in wastewater from animal-product industries, including slaughterhouses, dairies, rendering plants, and tanneries, with emphasis on their environmental and operational challenges
  • Covers advanced treatment technologies tailored to effluents, such as membrane bioreactors, anaerobic digestion with energy recovery, electrochemical methods, and hybrid or integrated systems
  • Presents case studies and industrial applications, illustrating the application of innovative treatment strategies in animal-product wastewater management
  • Explores digital and AI-based approaches, sustainability assessment, resource recovery, and circular-economy strategies for advanced wastewater treatment

Readership

MSc and PhD students, post-graduates, professors and researchers in chemical engineering, chemistry, process engineering and biology

Table of contents

1. Overview of Animal Product Processing and wastewater management

2. Fish Processing and Wastewater Treatment

3. Meat Processing and Wastewater Management

4. Poultry and Egg Product Processing Wastewater

5. Dairy Product Processing and Wastewater Management

6. Physical and Chemical Technologies of Animal Product Wastewater

7. Environmental and Health Effects of Animal Product Wastewater

8. Pre-Treatment Methods for Animal Product Wastewater

9. Biological Treatment of Animal Product Wastewater

10. Chemical and Advanced Treatment for Animal Product Wastewater

11. Sludge Management and Resource Recovery from Animal Product Wastewater

12. Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainability Perspectives of Animal Products Wastewater Treatment

13. Recovery of protein-based compounds from animal by-products by membrane processes

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the editors

Angelo Basile

Editor

Angelo Basile is a Full Professor and a leading authority in membrane science and technology. Since 2014, he has served as Full Professor in Systems, Methods and Technologies of Chemical Engineering Processes at CNR-ITM in Rende, Italy. His work covers hydrogen purification and production using membrane reactors, CO₂ capture, process intensification, and the treatment of industrial effluents with advanced membrane operations. Basile has edited many scientific books and authored numerous book chapters, bridging complex research with clear knowledge for engineers and scientists. Motivated by the role of AI/ML in accelerating membrane process design and automation, he supports integrating data-driven methods for smart plants and reaction–separation optimisation.

Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor, ITM-CNR, University of Calabria, Italy

Alfredo Cassano

Editor
Alfredo Cassano has worked as a Researcher at CNR-ITM in Italy since 2000. Trained in Biology, he specializes in membrane science and technology, including conventional membrane processes, membrane contactors, and integrated membrane operations used for wastewater treatment and agro-food applications. He has led or directed research through numerous national MIUR-funded projects, as well as European Union international projects and industry collaborations. Cassano contributes to the scientific community through editorial-board roles and has co-authored several books, numerous journal articles, and chapters, alongside conference and invited work, and two national patents. His interests include recovering bioactive compounds from by-products, membrane distillation, osmotic distillation, and wastewater remediation, motivated by bridging membrane technology with practical AI/ML and real-time monitoring to advance circular economy resource recovery.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, Institute on Membrane Technology of the Italian National Research Council, ITM-CNR, University of Calbria, Rende, Italy

Mohammad Reza Rahimpour

Editor

Prof. Mohammad Reza Rahimpour is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Shiraz University, Iran, with extensive experience in chemical process engineering, energy systems, process intensification, and sustainable technologies. His research interests include hydrogen and fuel processing, catalytic processes, separation and membrane technologies, carbon capture and utilization, and the development of energy-efficient processes. His work also encompasses the application of advanced process technologies and emerging approaches to improve environmental performance and resource efficiency. Prof. Rahimpour has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and has extensive experience in academic research, scientific leadership, and the development of international reference works in chemical engineering, energy, and sustainable technologies.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Fatemeh Haghighatjoo

Editor
Fatemeh Haghighatjoo is a Chemical Engineering researcher with expertise in process design and optimization, sustainable technologies, and environmental and energy assessment. Her research focuses on CO2 utilization, sustainable fuel production, hydrogen technologies, and the evaluation of chemical processes from environmental, economic, energy, and exergy perspectives. She has contributed to peer-reviewed publications and international reference works in chemical engineering, energy, and sustainable technologies.

Affiliations and expertise
Researcher, Department of Chemical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Soheila Zandi Lak

Editor
Soheila Zandi Lak is a researcher in Chemical Engineering with expertise in renewable energy, biofuels, energy conversion, and sustainable process technologies. Her research focuses on bioenergy conversion, hydrogen and syngas production, waste valorization, carbon management, and life-cycle assessment of sustainable technologies. She has contributed to peer-reviewed publications and international reference works in energy, environmental sustainability, and chemical engineering, with particular interest in resource recovery and environmentally sustainable process development.

Affiliations and expertise
Department of Chemical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran