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Fundamentals of Air Pollution

  • 6th Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Daniel A. Vallero
  • English
  • Paperback
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Fundamentals of Air Pollution, Sixth Edition offers an extensive study of the science of air pollution. With a highly interdisciplinary approach, the book's author examines air pollution through the lenses of chemistry, physics, meteorology, engineering, toxicology, regulation, and more. Students, faculty, and researchers alike will find a world of information in this comprehensive text that is strategically organized into six parts: Foundations of Air Pollution, The Risks of Air Pollution, Tropospheric Pollution, Biogeochemistry of Air Pollutants, Addressing Air Pollution, and The Future for Air Pollution Science and Engineering.Readers will find helpful features throughout, including case studies, topical sidebars, worked examples, calculations, and reference data. This valuable resource offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of air pollution with its wealth of benefits to both students and researchers.

Biomass for Environmental Remediation

  • 1st Edition
  • April 1, 2025
  • Yasser Vasseghian
  • English
  • Paperback
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Biomass for Environmental Remediation explores the pivotal role of biomass in revolutionizing environmental remediation. From wastewater treatment to air pollution control and soil remediation, this book delves into the myriad applications of biomass, including the synthesis of advanced nanomaterials for sustainable solutions. Users will find the latest advancements in harnessing organic resources for a cleaner and greener future, while also uncovering the diverse sources of biomass and the innovative techniques transforming them into powerful tools for environmental restoration.With insightful chapters on phytoremediation, microbial applications, and the production of biomass-derived nanomaterials, this book serves as a vital guide for professionals, researchers, and students at the forefront of environmental sustainability.

Microplastics in the Environment: Occurrence, Fate and Distribution

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 13
  • March 1, 2025
  • Javier González-Sálamo + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
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Microplastics in the Environment: Occurrence, Fate and Distribution, Volume Twelve highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Microplastics in the environment: Degradation processes, Analytical methods for microplastics determination in environmental samples, Microplastics in the seawater surface, Microplastics in the water column, Microplastics occurrence in seabed sediments, Microplastics in marine biota, Modeling microplastics distribution and transport in water environments, Microplastics monitoring in freshwater systems, Microplastics in sewage sludge and municipal solid waste, and more. Other sections cover Presence of microplastics in soils, Microplastics in the atmosphere: Occurrence, distribution and transport, Microplastics in the cryosphere, Occurrence of microplastics in food and beverages, Bioindicators of microplastics pollution, and Microplastics' removal from the environment.

Environmental Hazards of Plastic Wastes

  • 1st Edition
  • February 3, 2025
  • Jakub Zdarta + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Environmental Hazards of Plastic Wastes: Bioremediation Approaches for Environmental Clean-up focuses on the exploitation of various biological treatment technologies, their use to treat plastic contaminants, and restoration of contaminated sites. The book also addresses the biological treatment of plastic waste and its management of sustainable technologies for its reuse for environmental protection. The book examines advanced technologies, updated information, and future directions for researchers and scientists working in the bioremediation and biodegradation of plastic contaminants and reutilization of plastic wastes in the production of construction materials for environmental safety.The treatment of plastic wastes with environmentally benign approaches will be assessed in this book and will also provide ways to protect our natural environment by managing hazardous plastic pollutants through various techno-based, eco-friendly strategies.

Geohazards and Disasters

  • 1st Edition
  • February 1, 2025
  • Salvatore Martino + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Geohazards and Disasters: Modelling Scenarios as a Challenge for the Future aims to depict an updated view of the most significant technical-scientific knowledge on the topic of geological risks and related mitigation strategies with a focus on the resilience of anthropic communities, and with an aim to sensitize them towards a prevention approach that is fed through awareness and technical competence. This book fills knowledge gaps by relating on scientific and technical progress for the conscious and sustainable management of risk in a multi-hazard perspective.This comprehensive resource will be a welcomed by researchers, academicians, graduate and undergraduate students, and professionals in the field of geology, specifically those focused on geohazards and disaster management.

Biochar Ecotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment

  • 1st Edition
  • February 1, 2025
  • Abhay Kumar + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Biochar Ecotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment summarizes current accomplishments in biochar ecotechnologies for enhancing agricultural production, encouraging sustainable waste management, and fostering a circular bioeconomy by advancing the pyrolysis process at both large-scale industrial and small-scale-local levels. Chapters in the book synthesize recent breakthroughs in biochar agro-ecotechnologies for increasing agricultural productivity and promoting circular bioeconomy by advancing the pyrolysis process and add mechanisms involved in biochar-fertilizer mediated in-soil biogeochemical cycle and nutrients retention, availability and their losses, soil-microbial responses, emission of greenhouse gases, and plant responses.Finally, this book aims to increase research understanding of nanotechnological breakthroughs in the production of biochar-based slow-release fertilizers, including their Nano characteristics involved in increasing fertilizer usage efficiency and managing chemical losses, for sustainable agriculture and the environment.

Biochar for Environmental Remediation

  • 1st Edition
  • January 31, 2025
  • Willis Gwenzi
  • English
  • Paperback
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Biochar for Environmental Remediation: Principles, Applications, and Prospects synthesizes state-of-the-art knowledge on biochar-based systems for environmental remediation. The book examines a wide variety of biochar applications for the remediation of inorganic, organic, microbial and emerging contaminants in various environmental media, including drinking water, industrial wastewater, urban stormwater, industrial and indoor air pollution, and contaminated lands and soils. Researchers, engineers and graduate students will find this to be a valuable reference for understanding opportunities for the use of biochar in environmental remediation as it fills the gaps in existing literature and offers a clear roadmap to guide future research.An increasing body of evidence shows that biochars have potential applications in environmental remediation of contaminants in soils, aqueous systems, and air pollution control. This book uses a systematic approach, covering biochar preparation, properties and characteristics, removal mechanisms, industrial applications, regeneration and disposal of spent biochar, lifecycle analysis and environmental and human health risks.

Treatment and Recycling of Solid Waste

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Zhao Youcai + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
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Treatment and Recycling of Solid Waste provides an introduction to six types of waste, namely municipal and rural solid waste, construction and demolition waste, hazardous waste, industrial waste, electric and electronic waste, and sewage sludge. These types of waste will be discussed in great detail as well as combining with the treatment and recycling technologies, such as pretreatment, reuse and recycling, anaerobic digestion and aerobic compositing, incineration for power, pyrolysis, and sanitary landfill. This book will focus on pollution control and resource utilization. It will also describe the combining process design principles with application examples to comprehensively describe various methods, principles, processes, new technologies, new methods, and new theories for solid waste treatment and recycling.

Biorefinery of Industrial Effluents for a Sustainable Circular Economy

  • 1st Edition
  • November 27, 2024
  • Mu. Naushad + 4 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Biorefinery of Industrial Effluents for a Sustainable Circular Economy provides a combined approach on environmental engineering, which involves the improvement of the natural environment or remediation of polluted sites. In addition, it discusses bioprocess engineering involving the development of processes for the manufacture of products from biological materials to produce a valuable bioproduct. It covers sources, impacts, and applications of industrial effluents that could potentially be used as feedstock for the IEB with examples of applied research that demonstrates the relationship between the effluents, biorefinery, treatment and bioproduct recovery.Materials that can be produced from IEB and the treatment processes for such are considered.

Emerging Developments in Constructed Wetlands

  • 1st Edition
  • November 22, 2024
  • Asheesh Kumar Yadav + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Emerging Developments in Constructed Wetlands aims to provide comprehensive, up-to-date information on recent trends and advances in the domain of constructed wetlands. The book contains consolidated insights into distinctive research areas with application potential and commercialization possibilities. It also offers access to updated fundamental knowledge, current trends, and research advances worthy of potential implementations in the field. Although there has been significant research progress in the domain of constructed wetlands over the last years, there is no book available with actual case studies to meet growing demands.

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