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Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products: Waste Management and Treatment Technology
Emerging Contaminants and Micro Pollutants
- 1st Edition - April 4, 2019
- Editors: Meththika Vithanage, Atya Kapley, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 1 8 9 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 5 9 0 - 4
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Request a sales quotePharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products Waste Management and Treatment Technology: Emerging Contaminants and Micro Pollutants provides the tools and techniques for identifying these contaminates and applying the most effective technology for their remediation, recovery and treatment. The consumption of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) has grown significantly over the last 35 years, thus increasing their potential risk to the environment. As PPCPs are very difficult to detect and remove using conventional wastewater treatment methods, this book provides solutions to a growing problem.
- Includes sampling, analytical and characterization methods and technology for detecting PPCPs in the environment
- Provides advanced treatment and disposal technologies for the removal of PPCPs from wastewater, surface water, landfills and septic systems
- Examines the pathways of PPCPs into the environment
Civil/Environmental Engineers and Environmental Scientists, Chemical Engineers, Material Science graduates, Microbiologists, Biologists and Ecologists
- No. of pages: 506
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 4, 2019
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128161890
- eBook ISBN: 9780128165904
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Meththika Vithanage
Dr Meththika Vithanage is a Professor in Natural Resources at University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. Her research approach builds on enabling measurements of concentrations and reaction rates in environmental samples for key/emerging pollutants in the environment in order to assess their fate and transport to discover solutions to remediate those using different geo/bio/nano materials.
Dr Vithanage’s contribution to science has been recognized by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) presenting the Fayzah M. Al-Kharafi award in 2020. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Sri Lanka, and Institute of Chemistry, Ceylon, and was selected as one of the Early Career Women Scientists by the Organization for Women Scientists in Developing Countries, Italy. Her outstanding performance in research publications was recognized by the Presidential Awards, Sri Lanka, for consecutive 8 years from 2011Affiliations and expertise
Professor, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri LankaMV
Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad
Dr. Prasad is Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad (India). He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of bioremediation, bioresources, biomass energy sources, bioeconomy, and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology, all of which are his main areas of expertise. Dr. Prasad has served the Government of India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change as a member of various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist for several international universities.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor and Former Dean, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, IndiaRead Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products: Waste Management and Treatment Technology on ScienceDirect