
Hazardous Waste Management
An Overview of Advanced and Cost-Effective Solutions
- 1st Edition - November 29, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Deepak Kumar Yadav, Pradeep Kumar, Pardeep Singh, Daniel A. Vallero
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 4 3 4 4 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 9 2 8 - 8
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Request a sales quoteHazardous Waste Management: An Overview of Advanced and Cost-Effective Solutions includes the latest practical knowledge and theoretical concepts for the treatment of hazardous wastes. The book covers five major themes, namely, ecological impact, waste management hierarchy, hazardous waste characteristics and regulations, hazardous wastes management, and future scope of hazardous waste management. It serves as a comprehensive and advanced reference for undergraduate students, researchers and practitioners in the field of hazardous wastes and focuses on the latest emerging research in the management of hazardous waste, the direction in which this branch is developing as well as future prospects.
The book deals with all these components in-depth, however, particular attention is given to management techniques and cost-effective, economically feasible solutions for hazardous wastes released from various sources.
- Comprehensively explores the impact of hazardous wastes on human health and ecosystems
- Discusses toxicity across solid waste, aquatic food chain and airborne diseases
- Categorically elaborates waste treatment and management procedures with current challenges
- Discusses future challenges and the importance of renewing technologies
(Under)graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in the field of hazardous wastes
- Cover
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Section 1: Role of hazardous wastes and their environmental impacts
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Hazardous wastes and the environment
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Environmental fate
- 3: Environmental science
- 4: Key concepts
- 5: Hazardous waste management hierarchy
- 6: Life cycles
- 7: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 2: Hazardous wastes treatment, storage, and disposal facilities
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Definition of hazardous waste
- 3: Hazardous waste treatment methods
- 4: Storage of hazardous waste
- 5: Disposal of hazardous waste
- 6: Technological advances
- 7: Conclusion
- References
- Section 2: Waste management hierarchy
- Introduction
- Chapter 3: Source reduction, recycling, disposal, and treatment
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Source reduction of hazardous waste
- 3: Hazardous waste recycling
- 4: Hazardous waste disposal
- 5: Treatment of hazardous waste
- 6: Conclusion and overview
- References
- Chapter 4: Measurement and practices for hazardous waste management
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Hazardous waste measurement practices
- 3: Minimizing waste generation by process modification and optimization
- 4: Emerging technologies for hazardous waste treatment and disposal
- 5: Role of public and private sector organizations in promoting pollution management
- 6: International intervention of hazardous chemicals and waste management and their implementation
- 7: Conclusion
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 5: Policies, issues, and major safety operations in the management of hazardous waste
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction to the hierarchy of the development of policies/acts/regulations to control hazardous wastes from the 20th century
- 2: US Environmental Protection Agency and hazardous waste management
- 3: Occupational safety and health administration
- 4: The status of waste management in China
- 5: The status of waste management in the European Union
- 6: The Environmental (Protection) Act, 1986 of India
- 7: Some novel and noticed practices of hazardous waste management in other countries
- References
- Section 3: Hazardous waste characteristics and regulations
- Introduction
- Chapter 6: Hazardous waste characteristics and standard management approaches
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Hazardous waste
- 3: Environmental impacts of hazardous waste
- 4: Waste minimization and pollution prevention
- 5: Hazardous waste transportation
- 6: Hazardous waste treatment
- 7: Waste disposal
- 8: Legislative frameworks
- 9: Future aspects of hazardous waste management
- 10: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 7: Toxicity and hazardous waste regulations
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Criteria for determining hazardous waste
- 3: Hazardous waste storage
- 4: The problems that may result from the low efficiency of the solid waste system
- 5: Waste recycling
- 6: Future vision
- 7: Conclusion
- References
- Section 4: Hazardous wastes management
- Introduction
- Chapter 8: Toxicity and related engineering and biological controls
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Toxicity of hazardous material
- 3: Global trends
- 4: Major sources of HW
- 5: Hazardous waste control
- 6: Engineering control
- 7: Biological control
- 8: Bioremediation of hazardous waste
- 9: Proper disposal of hazardous waste
- 10: Conclusion
- 11: Future implementations and strategies
- References
- Chapter 9: An introduction to hazardous waste engineering
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Measuring and modeling hazardous waste impacts
- 3: Hazardous waste metrics: Risk, reliability, and resilience
- 4: Overview of treatment technologies
- 5: Disposal
- 6: Abandoned disposal sites
- 7: Phyto-remediation
- 8: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 10: Hazardous waste monitoring and transboundary movement
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Sources of hazardous wastes in the environment
- 3: Classification of hazardous wastes
- 4: Characterization of hazardous wastes
- 5: Management of the hazardous waste
- 6: Treatment and safe disposal of hazardous waste
- 7: Surveillance of medical hazardous waste
- 8: Prevention of transboundary movement of hazardous wastes
- 9: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 11: Radioactive waste management
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Classification
- 3: Sources of radioactive nuclear wastes
- 4: Technologies adopted for treatment and management of radioactive nuclear wastes
- 5: Nuclear waste management
- 6: Regulations for radioactive nuclear wastes management
- 7: Conclusions
- References
- Section 5: Future scope of hazardous waste management
- Introduction
- Chapter 12: Remedial technologies for future waste management
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Different categories of waste
- 3: Waste management
- 4: Different types of remedial technologies
- 5: Overview
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 13: Cautious use of existing hazardous waste management data
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Dataset and secondary analyses
- 3: Special approaches of primary investigators in secondary analyses
- 4: General cautions for existing HW management data use
- 5: Establishing quality assurance/quality control procedures
- 6: Selection of facility and analytical methods
- 7: Evaluating HW management data uncertainty
- 8: Ascertaining reevaluation frequencies
- 9: Discrepancy policy
- 10: Exclusion policy
- 11: Record keeping
- 12: Corrective and preventative action measures
- 13: Pros and cons of using existing HW management datasets
- 14: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 14: Hazardous waste bioremediation
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Biological principles
- 3: Treatment approaches: Applied microbiology
- 4: Hazardous waste biodegradation
- 5: Mixed hazardous waste reactors
- 6: Aerobic hazardous waste reactors
- 7: Anaerobic hazardous waste reactors
- 8: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 15: Cost-effective viable solutions for existing technologies
- Abstract
- 1: Hazardous waste definitions, types, and impacts on the environment
- 2: Existing technologies for waste treatment and disposal
- 3: Treatment processes of different hazardous materials
- 4: Cost-effective advancements and process intensification
- 5: Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter 16: Nanoadsorbent: An alternative to conventional adsorbent for water remediation
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Metallic nanoadsorbent
- 3: Carbonaceous nanomaterials
- 4: Functionalized nanoadsorbent
- 5: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 17: Electronic waste: Environmental risks and opportunities
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: WEEE classification
- 3: E-waste management
- 4: Current technologies for e-waste treatment
- 5: E-waste recycling: Limitations, environmental impacts, and mitigation strategies
- 6: Innovative treatment technologies
- 7: Conclusions and outlook
- References
- Chapter 18: Hazardous waste management in developing countries: Current status and potential trends
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Forecasting the amounts and types of hazardous waste
- 3: Biogeochemical cycles
- 4: Downstream warning systems
- References
- Chapter 19: Forecasting trends in the generation and management of hazardous waste
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Industry 4.0
- 3: Possible waste generation and its management
- 4: Future waste management challenges
- 5: Conclusions
- References
- Appendix
- Key hazardous waste terms
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 29, 2021
- No. of pages (Paperback): 612
- No. of pages (eBook): 612
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128243442
- eBook ISBN: 9780323859288
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Deepak Kumar Yadav
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Pradeep Kumar
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Pardeep Singh
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