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  • Nanocellulose for Water Purification

    Advancements, Applications, and Environmental Impact
    • 1st Edition
    • Sabu Thomas + 3 more
    • English
    Nanocellulose for Water Purification: Advancements, Applications, and Environmental Impact provides a comprehensive overview into the properties, modifications, and applications of nanocellulose-based materials for addressing water pollution. The initial chapters introduce the fundamental aspects of nanocellulose, including its origin, characteristics, and properties. The subsequent chapters discuss surface functionalization and modification techniques that improve the adsorption capabilities of nanocellulose, followed by an overview of the different forms of nanocellulose-based adsorbents, such as films, membranes, hydrogels, and aerogels, highlighting their effectiveness in removing various pollutants, including agrochemicals, organic solvents, cationic and anionic dyes, heavy metals, lipids, and pharmaceutical contaminants. The final chapters address the environmental and economic implications of nanocellulose advancements in water purification technologies and discuss the challenges and future directions in the field. This book serves as an important resource for researchers and industry professionals in nanotechnology, materials science, polymer science, environmental engineering, and chemical engineering, providing detailed information on the innovative use of nanocellulose in water treatment applications.

  • Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) as Environmental Contaminants

    Materials and Technologies for Advancements in Water and Soil Remediation
    • 1st Edition
    • Dimitrios A Giannakoudakis + 1 more
    • English
    Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) as Environmental Contaminants: Materials and Technologies for Advancements in Water and Soil Remediation offers a comprehensive examination of the challenges posed by PFAS contamination and the innovative solutions available for remediation. The book delves into the chemical properties, toxicity mechanisms, and environmental persistence of PFAS while also exploring advanced remediation technologies such as adsorption, chemical oxidation, and phytoremediation. By consolidating current knowledge and showcasing new approaches, this comprehensive resource equips readers with the tools necessary to address PFAS contamination and effectively advance research and practice in environmental health and safety.In addition, users will find updates on emerging materials like Metal-Organic Frameworks and activated carbons that enhance remediation efforts, providing practical insights and case studies throughout.

  • Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Water Purification

    Advances and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Edison Ang Huixiang
    • English
    Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Water Purification: Advances and Applications explores the transformative potential of 2D nanomaterials in enhancing water purification technologies, covering a wide range of applications, including filtration membranes, membrane distillation, solar evaporation, photocatalytic treatment, antibacterial strategies, adsorption, and capacitive deionization. The book begins with an overview of the fundamental separation mechanisms, design configurations for various purification technologies, and material characterization techniques specific to 2D nanomaterials. The following chapters discuss computational approaches, advanced fabrication methods, and performance comparisons, all while emphasizing sustainability in water treatment. This comprehensive resource provides researchers and engineers with valuable information about the potential applications and future directions of 2D nanomaterial-based water purification technologies.

  • Technologies for Soil and Water Pollution Remediation

    • 1st Edition
    • Sivakumar Uthandi + 3 more
    • English
    Technologies for Soil and Water Pollution Remediation explores advanced microbial methods and practical solutions for effectively addressing soil and water contamination. The book addresses critical issues in soil and water pollution while outlining the pressing environmental challenges associated with soil and water contamination, emphasizing the urgent need for effective remediation strategies. Sections highlight the identification and classification of contaminants, their sources, and impacts on ecosystems and human health. Key methodologies discussed include advanced bioremediation techniques, phytoremediation, and emerging technologies such as microbial electrogenesis and photocatalytic treatments.

  • Green and Sustainable Synthesis of Iron Oxide-Based Nanomaterials for Energy and Environmental Applications

    • 1st Edition
    • Uma Shanker + 1 more
    • English
    Green and Sustainable Synthesis of Iron Oxide-Based Nanomaterials for Energy and Environmental Applications explores various synthesis methods of iron and iron oxide nanoparticles, with an emphasis on green synthesis – a sustainable and eco-friendly method. The book investigates a range of alternative routes to the synthesis of iron-based nanomaterials, such as using microorganisms (fungi, bacteria, actinomycetes), algae, green plants, and various biocompatible green reagents such as biopolymers, cellulose, and biomass. Furthermore, the effects of various parameters used in the green synthesis approach are examined in order to provide a clear image of the physicochemical features of the nanomaterials created.

  • Algal Biorefinery

    A Sustainable Solution for Environmental Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Sanjeet Mehariya + 3 more
    • English
    Algal Biorefinery: A Sustainable Solution for Environmental Applications focuses on algae's possibilities, assets, and functions as a renewable and sustainable resource that can act as an excellent alternative to withstand adverse environmental conditions to generate useful products. Thus, apart from helping reduce environmental pollution and the carbon footprint, algae can help mitigate factors causing rapid climate change via concurrent bioremediation, resource recovery, and environmental sustainability.This comprehensive book will examine dedicated state-of-the-art information on the topic of how algae can act as a cushion against climate change. It will also explain how algal-based biorefineries can act as a potential solution to climate change, lack of natural resources, and environmental pollution

  • Water Security: Big Data-Driven Risk Identification, Assessment and Control of Emerging Contaminants

    • 1st Edition
    • Bin Liang + 2 more
    • English
    Water Security: Big Data-Driven Risk Identification, Assessment and Control of Emerging Contaminants contains the latest information on big data-driven risk detection and analysis, risk assessment and environmental health effect, intelligent risk control technologies, and global control strategy of emerging contaminants. First, this book highlights advances and challenges throughout the detection of emerging chemical contaminants (e.g., antimicrobials, microplastics) by sensors or mass spectrometry, as well as emerging biological contaminant (e.g., ARGs, pathogens) by a combination of next- and third-generation sequencing technologies in aquatic environment. Second, it discusses in depth the ecological risk assessment and environmental health effects of emerging contaminants. Lastly, it presents the most up-to-date intelligent risk management technologies.This book shares instrumental global strategy and policy analysis on how to control emerging contaminants. Offering interdisciplinary and global perspectives from experts in environmental sciences and engineering, environmental microbiology and microbiome, environmental informatics and bioinformatics, intelligent systems, and knowledge engineering, this book provides an accessible and flexible resource for researchers and upper level students working in these fields.

  • Water Resources Management for Rural Development

    Challenges and Mitigation
    • 1st Edition
    • Sughosh Madhav + 3 more
    • English
    Water Resources Management for Rural Development: Challenges and Mitigation provides an overview of the current challenges of rural water and its management strategies. The content contains practical and theoretical aspects of the water crisis in rural areas in a changing climate era, with an emphasis on recent water crisis research and management strategies. The book's structure contains fundamentals of water resources, pollution, remediation, supply and management strategies. Case studies included provide different water-related issues around the globe, introducing the reader to the paths of reducing the burden on the groundwater and the alternative options for the supply of water in rural areas. Decision-makers and water supply authorities will benefit from this unique resource that comprehensively covers rural water management in ways no comparable book has achieved.

  • Groundwater Economics and Policy in South Asia

    • 1st Edition
    • M. Dinesh Kumar
    • English
    Groundwater Economics and Policy in South Asia is a reference guide focusing on groundwater management and groundwater economics in South Asia. The author compares the regional variations across South Asia and the public policies that shaped the groundwater sector and presents the most up-to-date information on groundwater management using practical case-studies and empirical data. With the inclusion of strong methodological solutions for sustainable groundwater management, scholars in the fields of geohydrology, agricultural sciences, water resource economics, and professionals in water science and policy will get access to the latest policies and methods used in groundwater research in South Asia.

  • Water, Land, and Forest Susceptibility and Sustainability, Volume 2

    Insight Towards Management, Conservation and Ecosystem Services
    • 1st Edition
    • Uday Chatterjee + 4 more
    • English
    Water, Land, and Forest Susceptibility and Sustainability, Volume 2: Insight Towards Management, Conservation and Ecosystem Services brings an interdisciplinary perspective to solving complex problems in sustainability, utilizing the latest research and technologies, and includes case studies that emphasize the applications of remote sensing, GIS, and image processing for addressing the current state and future needs to achieve sustainability. As forests, land, and water are among the most precious resources on earth, emphasizing the need to conserve them for future generations and, of course, a safe and sustainable planet. The assessment of the susceptibility of all these three precious resources must therefore be addressed to inform their sustainable management. This second volume focuses on environmental management, conservation, and ecosystem services and provides information on forest, land, and water resources, presenting in integrated manner various aspects of their characterization, susceptibility, and sustainability.