Development in Wastewater Treatment Research and Processes

Advances in Industrial Wastewater Treatment Technologies: Removal of Contaminants and Recovery of Resources

1st Edition - July 1, 2023
Editor: Maulin P. Shah
Language: English
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Advances in Industrial Wastewater Treatment Technologies: Removal of Contaminants and Recovery of Resources identifies emerging technologies that allow for reuse throughout the wastewater treatment cycle. In anticipation of the next generation of biological treatment technologies driven wastewater treatment plants, this book focuses on the reuse and regeneration of wastewater through an innovative and applied approach of treatment processes. The book emphasizes various aspects related to wastewater management, treatment technologies, water reuse, biosolids production and management, water quality, regulations, economics, public acceptance, risk assessment, benefits, keys for success and main constraints, and stresses the importance of an activated sludge process.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
List of contributors
Chapter 1. Removal of heavy metals from wastewater using bioremedial techniques
1. Introduction
2. Heavy metals: toxicity, fate, and transport
3. Microbial bioremediation
4. Bacterial bioremediation of heavy metals
5. Fungal bioremediation of heavy metals
6. Algal bioremediation of heavy metals
7. Conclusion
Chapter 2. Electrocoagulation process for wastewater treatment: applications, challenges, and prospects
1. Introduction
2. Coagulation processes
3. Mechanism of electrocoagulation process
4. Factors affecting the electrocoagulation process
5. Optimization and modeling of electrocoagulation treatment process
6. Application of Electrocoagulation process for the removal of wastewater contaminants
7. Challenges facing the electrocoagulation technique
8. Techno-economic analysis of the electrocoagulation process
9. Conclusion and future perspective
Chapter 3. Phosphorus recovery from municipal wastewater treatment plants
1. Introduction
2. Chemical processes of phosphorus recovery
3. Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR)
4. Application of recovered phosphate products
5. Significance of phosphorus recovery
6. Challenges of P recovery
7. Economic feasibility of P recovery
8. Conclusion and future perspectives
Chapter 4. Techniques in removal of organics and emerging contaminants from wastewater for water reuse application
1. Introduction
2. Types of emerging contaminants and their environmental effects
3. Treatment technologies
4. Zeolite-rich composite in removal of emerging contaminants
5. Photocatalysis for removal of emerging organic compounds from wastewater
6. Conclusion
Chapter 5. Microbial fuel cell: a paradigm shifts in wastewater treatment
1. Introduction
2. Microbial fuel cells
3. Types of microbial fuel cells
4. Factors affecting of microbial fuel cells
5. Application of microbial fuel cells
6. Recent advances in the use of wastewater treatment as substrate in microbial fuel cells
7. Future perspective of microbial fuel cells
8. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Immobilized microbial biomass as advanced anammox strategy
1. Introduction
2. Immobilized anammox biomass for nitrogen removal
3. Conclusion and future perspectives
Chapter 7. Microbiology and application of the anammox process
1. Introduction
2. Physiology and ecology of planctomycetales
3. Mechanism of anaerobic ammonium oxidation
4. Applications of anammox process
5. Significance of the anammox process
6. Conclusions
Chapter 8. Agriculture pesticide and their remediation
1. Introduction
2. Conclusion
Chapter 9. Recent update on chlorophenols bioremediation
1. Introduction
2. Future perspective
Chapter 10. Removal of pharmaceuticals by on-site and decentralized wastewater treatment systems
1. Introduction
2. The water crisis and the role of wastewater treatment systems
3. Limitations and way-outs for current wastewater treatments
4. How to remove pharmaceuticals by on-site and decentralized treatment systems?
5. Analgesics
6. Antidepressants
7. Antiepileptics
8. Hormones
9. The future of wastewaters containing pharmaceuticals
Chapter 11. Treatment of industrial wastewater in the adsorption process by natural fibers
1. Introduction
2. Natural fiber adsorbents
3. Characteristics of natural plant fibers
4. Adsorption process in industrial wastewater treatment
5. Conclusion
Chapter 12. Treatment of trace organics and emerging contaminants using traditional and advanced technologies
1. Introduction
2. Global occurrence of trace organic compounds and emerging contaminants
3. Removal of trace organic compounds and emerging contaminants
4. Coupled treatment processes
5. Knowledge gaps and prospects
6. Conclusions
Chapter 13. Technological management of biosolid
1. Introduction
2. Land application of biosolids as a fertilizer and soil amendment
3. Biosolid composting
4. Energy recovery from biosolids
5. Recycling of waste material from biosolid
6. Application of biosolid
7. Biosolid impact assessment
8. Conclusion
Chapter 14. Emerging wastewater contaminants in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic
1. Introduction
2. Triclosan
3. Quaternary ammonium compounds
4. Microfibers
5. Discussions and conclusion
Chapter 15. Hybrid biological and advanced oxidation process for Greywater treatment and reuse
1. Introduction
2. Greywater
3. Treatment of greywater
4. Greywater reuse standards
5. Future research: challenges and opportunities
6. Conclusions
Chapter 16. Bioremediation of soils polluted with hexavalent chromium using bacteria
1. Introduction
2. Oxidation states of chromium
3. Chromium exposure and toxicity
4. Chromium removal methods
5. Bioremediation mechanisms of Heavy metal-contaminated environment
6. Bacteria as biosorbents of heavy metals
7. Algae as biosorbents of heavy metals
8. Fungi as biosorbents of heavy metals
9. Factors influencing chromium biosorption by microorganisms
10. Functional groups involved in microorganisms during biosorption of chromium
Chapter 17. The effect of Membrane technology and nanotechnology in wastewater treatment
1. Introduction
2. State of art
3. Emerging technologies on wastewater treatment
4. Future recommendation
5. Conclusions
Chapter 18. Resource recovery from wastewater: Technical, economic, and environmental feasibility
1. Introduction
2. Wastewater treatment
3. Resource recovery from wastewater
4. Conclusion
Index

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