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Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry
Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment
- 1st Edition - April 1, 2025
- Editors: Roberto Castro-Muñoz, Angelo Basile, Alfredo Cassano
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 5 0 0 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 5 0 1 - 3
Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry: Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment provides an overview of current techniques, processes, and strategies in the field of wastew… Read more
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Request a sales quoteChemical and Pharmaceutical Industry: Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment provides an overview of current techniques, processes, and strategies in the field of wastewater management, dealing either with the recovery of co-products, biomolecules or simply water recovery and purification. The book highlights the latest developments in different areas of agro-food productions, focusing on innovative technologies and control strategies in the treatment of wastewaters derived from different industries, including dairy, seafood processing plants, olive oil manufacturing factories, fruit juice and beverage, wine and beer and various other food processing facilities.
In addition, it features technologies and processes ranging from adsorption-assisted technologies, advanced oxidation processes, hydrodynamic cavitation, pressure-driven membrane technologies, algae-based treatments, membrane bioreactors, engineered composite materials-based treatments, photocatalysis-based treatments, and ultrasound-assisted electrochemical processes.
In addition, it features technologies and processes ranging from adsorption-assisted technologies, advanced oxidation processes, hydrodynamic cavitation, pressure-driven membrane technologies, algae-based treatments, membrane bioreactors, engineered composite materials-based treatments, photocatalysis-based treatments, and ultrasound-assisted electrochemical processes.
- Includes the latest developments on different wastewaters processing in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry
- Describes emerging technologies for pollution control and recovery of useful products in different areas of food production, pharmaceuticals, and chemical processing
- Studies the integration of conventional and innovative strategies to decrease waste, energy, and water use
Post-graduate students and academic researchers in chemical engineering, chemistry, food engineering and biology
1. An overview in wastewater production and management
2. Featured technologies in wastewater treatment
3. Adsorption assisted technologies for wastewater treatment
4. Advanced oxidation processes in wastewater treatments
5. Hydrodynamic cavitation in wastewater treatment
6. Pressure driven membrane technologies in wastewater treatment and recovery of biomolecules
7. Cleaning up wastewater through algae and its integration with other processes
8. Membrane Bioreactors and biochar for water treatment
9. Advances in engineered composite materials popular for wastewater treatment
10. Photocatalysis in wastewater treatment
11. Ultrasound-assisted electrochemical processes for wastewater treatment
12. Advanced strategies for dairy wastewater treatment: a perspective
2. Featured technologies in wastewater treatment
3. Adsorption assisted technologies for wastewater treatment
4. Advanced oxidation processes in wastewater treatments
5. Hydrodynamic cavitation in wastewater treatment
6. Pressure driven membrane technologies in wastewater treatment and recovery of biomolecules
7. Cleaning up wastewater through algae and its integration with other processes
8. Membrane Bioreactors and biochar for water treatment
9. Advances in engineered composite materials popular for wastewater treatment
10. Photocatalysis in wastewater treatment
11. Ultrasound-assisted electrochemical processes for wastewater treatment
12. Advanced strategies for dairy wastewater treatment: a perspective
- No. of pages: 300
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443265006
- eBook ISBN: 9780443265013
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Roberto Castro-Muñoz
Roberto Castro-Muñoz, a Food engineer and two PhD’s in Biotechnology and EUDIME Membrane Engineering, is a Research Professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey Mexico since 2019. He has experience in membrane science and technology with expertise in pressure-driven membrane processes, pervaporation, gas separation, membrane distillation and the synthesis of composite membranes for selective gas and solvent separations. Roberto focuses on the application of such processes in different fields such as food processing, chemical and biochemical processes, environment and biotechnology.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Professor, Tecnologico de Monterrey, MexicoAB
Angelo Basile
Angelo Basile, a Chemical Engineer, is a senior Researcher at the ITM-CNR, University of Calabria, where he is responsible for research related to both the ultra-pure hydrogen production and CO2 capture using Pd-based Membrane Reactors. Angelo Basile's h-index is 53, with 387 document results with a total of 8,910 citations in 5,034 documents (www.scopus.com – 24 May 2023).
He has more than 170 scientific papers in peer-to-peer journals and 252 papers in international congresses; and is a reviewer for 165 int. journals, an editor/author of more than 50 scientific books and 120 chapters on international books on membrane science and technology; 6 Italian patents, 2 European patents and 5 worldwide patents. He is referee of 104 international scientific journals and Member of the Editorial Board of 22 of them.
Basile is also Editor associate of the Int. J. Hydrogen Energy and Editor-in-chief of the Int. J. Membrane Science & Technol. and Editor-in-chief of Membrane Processes (Applications), a section of the Intl J. Membranes. Basile also prepared 42 special issues on membrane science and technology for many international journals (IJHE, Chem Eng. J., Cat. Today, etc.). He participated to and was/is responsible of many national and international projects on membrane reactors and membrane science. Basile served as Director of the ITM-CNR during the period Dec. 2008 – May 2009. In the last years, he was tutor of 30 Thesis for master and Ph.D. students at the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Calabria (Italy). From 2014, Basile is Full Professor of Chemical Engineering Processes.
Affiliations and expertise
ITM-CNR, University of Calabria, ItalyAC
Alfredo Cassano
Alfredo Cassano, a Biologist, is senior Researcher at ITM-CNR since 2000. He has a long experience in the field of membrane science and technology with research expertise including pressure-driven membrane processes, membrane contactors and integrated membrane operations mainly applied to wastewater treatments and agro-food productions.
Cassano also prepared 4 special issues on membrane science and technology for 3 international journals (Membranes, Foods and Journal of Membrane Science and Research). He is involved as scientific responsible or main investigator in different national projects with both Italian Ministry of Education, University & Research and private companies and international projects funded by EU. He has been tutoring of 28 Thesis for master and Ph.D. students at ITM-CNR.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, Institute on Membrane Technology of the Italian National Research Council, ITM-CNR, University of Calbria, Rende, Italy