Sustainable Remediation Technologies for Emerging Pollutants in Aqueous Environment

1st Edition - September 12, 2023
Editors: Mohammad Hadi Dehghani, Rama Rao Karri, Inderjeet Tyagi
Language: English
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Sustainable Technologies for Remediation of Emerging Pollutants from Aqueous Environment compiles and collates advanced technologies for the purification of water and wastewater. The book covers the biological purification of wastewater, the use of adsorbents for decontamination of water, the role of membrane technology and its composites for removing emerging pollutants, and applications of advanced oxidation processes (AOP) for removal of emerging pollutants. This resource provides a single source solution to academicians and young researchers by assembling the latest information on the application of the conventional and non-conventional in water and wastewater purification.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
List of contributors
About the editors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Emerging pollutants in the aqueous solution: sources, classification, and associated health implications
1. Introduction
2. Sources of emerging contaminants
3. Classification of emerging contaminants and associated health implications
4. Overview of existing EP removal techniques
5. Conclusions
Chapter 2. Fundamentals and mechanism of biological purification and classification
1. Introduction
2. Classification and sources of emerging pollution
3. Removal of emerging contaminants
4. Combination of treatment technologies
5. Conclusion and future perspective
Chapter 3. Fundamentals and mechanism of adsorption
1. Introduction
2. Fundamentals of adsorption technology and its characteristics
3. Fabrication methods used for adsorbents
4. Physico-chemical characteristics of the adsorbents
5. Emerging contaminants eradicated from water
6. Overview of binding mechanism
7. Regeneration of adsorbents
8. Conclusion and future prospects
Chapter 4. Natural adsorbents for the removal of emerging pollutants and its adsorption mechanisms
1. Introduction
2. Sorption: why choose sorption as an effective process for the removal of metals ions?
3. Definitions, generalities of adsorption and biosorption
4. Different types of adsorptions
5. Factors that characterise an adsorbent
6. Effects of different physicochemical parameters in adsorption
7. Modeling the results of adsorption kinetics
8. Mechanism of the process of adsorption
9. Different isotherms and their classification
10. Conclusion
Chapter 5. Activated carbon adsorbents for the removal of emerging pollutants and its adsorption mechanisms
1. Introduction
2. Physicochemical characteristics of ACs
3. Effective factors in adsorption of emerging pollutants
4. Equilibrium study of emerging pollutants adsorption
5. Kinetics of emerging pollutants adsorption
6. Adsorption mechanism of emerging pollutants onto ACs
7. Future research directions and conclusion
Chapter 6. Metal organic framework adsorbents for the removal of emerging pollutants and their adsorption mechanisms
1. Introduction
2. Intriguing topological characteristics of metal-organic frameworks
3. Mechanisms of adsorption of emerging contaminants in MOFs
4. Factors influencing adsorption in metal-organic frameworks
5. Water stability issues in MOFs
6. Future directions
7. Conclusions
Chapter 7. Adsorptive removal of emerging pollutants from water using graphene-oxide and graphene oxide-based composites and its adsorption mechanisms
1. Introduction
2. Overview, sources, and classifications of emerging pollutants
3. Chemistry of graphene oxides and their derivatives
4. GO and its nanocomposites as effective nanosorbents
5. Mechanisms of emerging pollutants adsorption on GO and GO-based composites
6. Adsorption isotherms and factors affecting the adsorption process
7. Regeneration and desorption study
8. Conclusion and future prospects
Chapter 8. Hydrothermally carbonized biomass: A green material for the remediation of hazardous contaminants from aqueous solutions
1. Introduction
2. Material and methods
3. Results and discussion
4. Conclusions
Chapter 9. Electrocoagulation as a promising treatment for textile industry wastewater: effect of process parameters and reuse approach
1. Introduction
2. Electrocoagulation technology
3. Factors affecting the EC process to remove the various pollutants
4. Pollutants generation in the textile industry
5. Methylene blue (MB) and congo red (CR) dye treatment using EC for reuse
6. Conclusions
Authors contributions
Funding
Declaration of competing interest
Chapter 10. Waste-based adsorbents for the removal of emerging pollutants and their adsorption mechanisms
1. Introduction
2. Wastes as adsorbents
3. Influencing factors on waste-based adsorbents
4. Adsorption mechanism of waste-based adsorbents
5. Conclusion
Chapter 11. Bio-sorbents for the removal of emerging pollutants and their adsorption mechanisms
1. Introduction
2. BC modification for EPs
3. mBC sorption activity for EPs
4. BC cost and regeneration performance
5. Conclusions and prospects for the future
Chapter 12. Plant-based adsorbents for emerging pollutants removal: A decade review
1. Introduction
2. Bibliometric assessment of “emerging pollutants removal by plant-synthesized sorbents”
3. Emerging pollutants and their negative impacts
4. Biosorbents and their modification techniques
5. Removal of emerging pollutants by plant-based sorbents
6. Adsorption mechanism of emerging pollutants by plant-based sorbents
7. Phytoremediation of emerging pollutants
8. Factors affecting phytoremediation of emerging pollutants
9. Constructed wetlands (CWs) for emerging pollutants remediation
10. Conclusion and future research prospects
Chapter 13. Desorption/regeneration of adsorbents and their performance
1. Introduction
2. Factors affecting regeneration
3. Techniques applied in desorption of pollutants and regeneration of adsorbents
4. Future research directions and conclusion
Chapter 14. Membrane technology: fundamental of membrane and classification
1. Introduction
2. Fundamentals of membrane
3. Classification
4. MOF-based membrane
5. MXene-based membrane
6. Industrial limitations of MOF- and MXene-based membranes
7. Conclusions and future outlook
Chapter 15. Prospects for the application of nanostructures of bismuth oxychloride (BiOCl) towards the degradation of organic compounds in an aqueous solution
1. Introduction
2. Bismuth oxyhalides
3. Synthesis methods and properties of the BiOCl
4. Water treatment applications
5. Conclusions
Chapter 16. Advanced oxidation processes for degradation of pharmaceuticals used during COVID-19 pandemic
1. Introduction
2. Effects of COVID-19 in water systems
3. Degradation of approved therapeutic drugs
4. Degradation of antidepressants
5. Degradation of ruled-out therapeutic agents
6. Detection and quantification of several pharmaceutic compounds against COVID-19
7. Conclusion
Chapter 17. Metal-based adsorbents for the removal of emerging pollutants and their adsorption mechanisms
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Results and discussion
4. Conclusion
Chapter 18. Removal of endocrine disrupting Bisphenol A from synthetic solutions by different adsorbents
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Results and discussion
4. Conclusions
Chapter 19. Removal of emerging contaminants from wastewater by various treatment technologies in wastewater treatment plants
1. Introduction
2. Wastewater treatment plant procedures
3. Removal efficiencies of various chemical classes
4. Conclusions
Chapter 20. Photocatalysis as an effective and sustainable approach for environmental remediation
1. Introduction
2. Criteria to be a photocatalyst
3. Semiconductor nanomaterials
4. Photocatalytic degradation of pollutants
5. Role of materials engineering
6. Summary & future prospects
Chapter 21. Overview of water treatment technologies for preparation of drinking water
1. Introduction
2. Disinfection
3. Decontamination
4. Desalination
5. Reuse
6. Portable water technology
7. Challenges and future prospects
8. Conclusion
Chapter 22. Electrochemical treatment of industrial wastewater: research trends toward the sustainable development of electrodes
1. Introduction
2. Fabrication techniques
3. Advanced heat synthesis approaches
4. Research trends in the fabrication of working electrodes
5. Technology selection and future aspects
6. Conclusion
Chapter 23. Ultrasound-assisted selective removal of organic herbicides from aqueous media using a magnetic molecularly imprinted polymer nanocomposite
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Results and discussion
4. Conclusions
Index

Mohammad Hadi Dehghani

Prof. Dr. Mohammad Hadi Dehghani is a Full Professor at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. His scientific research interest includes environmental science. He is an editorial board member, guest editor, and reviewer in many internal and international journals and is a member of several international science committees around the world. He has authored or edited 16 books and more than 230 full papers published in peer-reviewed journals.

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Professor, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran, Iran

Rama Rao Karri

Dr. Rama Rao Karri is a Professor (Sr. Asst) in the Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Brunei, Brunei Darussalam. He has a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Master’s from IIT Kanpur in Chemical Engineering. He has worked as a Post-Doctoral research fellow at NUS, Singapore for about six years and has over 18 years of working experience in Academics, Industry, and Research. He has experience of working in multidisciplinary fields and has expertise in various evolutionary optimization techniques and process modelling. He has published 150+ research articles in reputed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings with a combined Impact factor of 611.43 and has an h-index of 28 (Scopus - citations: 2600+) and 27 (Google Scholar -citations: 3000+). He is an editorial board member in 10 renowned journals and a peer-review member for more than 93 reputed journals and has peer-reviewed more than 410 articles. Also, he handled 112 articles as an editor. He also has the distinction of being listed in the top 2% of the world’s most influential scientists in the area of environmental sciences and chemicals for the Years 2021 & 2022. The List of the Top 2% of Scientists in the World compiled and published by Stanford University is based on their international scientific publications, the number of scientific citations for research, and participation in the review and editing of scientific research. He held a position as Editor-in-Chief (2019-2021) in the International Journal of Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering, IGI Global, USA. He is also an Associate editor in Scientific Reports, Springer Nature & International Journal of Energy and Water Resources (IJEWR), Springer Inc. He is also a Managing Guest editor for Spl. Issues: 1) “Magnetic nanocomposites and emerging applications", in Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (IF: 5.909), 2) “Novel CoronaVirus (COVID-19) in Environmental Engineering Perspective", in Journal of Environmental Science and Pollution Research (IF: 4.223), Springer. 3) “Nanocomposites for the Sustainable Environment”, in Applied Sciences Journal (IF: 2.679), MDPI. He along with his mentor, Prof. Venkateswarlu is authoring an Elsevier book, “Optimal state estimation for process monitoring, diagnosis, and control”. He is also co-editor and managing editor for 8 Elsevier, 1 Springer and 1 CRC edited books. Elsevier: 1) Sustainable Nanotechnology for Environmental Remediation, 2) Soft computing techniques in solid waste and wastewater management, 3) Green technologies for the defluoridation of water, 4) Environmental and health management of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), 5) Pesticides remediation technologies from water and wastewater: Health effects and environmental remediation, 6) Hybrid Nanomaterials for Sustainable Applications, 7) Sustainable materials for sensing and remediation of noxious pollutants. Springer: 1) Industrial wastewater treatment using emerging technologies for sustainability. CRC: 1) Recent Trends in Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) for micro-pollutant removal.

Affiliations and expertise

Senior Assistant Professor, Universiti Teknologi Brunei, Brunei Darussalam

Inderjeet Tyagi

Dr. Inderjeet Tyagi is working as a Scientist at ZSI, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, Kolkata, India. To his expertise, Dr. Tyagi is working in the field of Wastewater treatment, Water Quality, Environmental Metagenomics, and Environmental Management for the past several years. To his credit, Dr. Tyagi had published 120+ SCI papers with Citation~8600 and an h-index of 51 with a cumulative impact factor >550. More to this, he is leading Five (5) national and international projects related to wastewater and water quality assessment in heavily polluted areas in India. Further, he is also on the reviewer panel of more than 40 international journals belonging to well-known publishers like Elsevier, Nature, Springer Nature, Taylor Francis, ACS, etc. Recently, he was awarded the “India Prime Education Quality Award 2021” for his outstanding contribution to the field of wastewater treatment and Environmental Management. He is a lifetime member of the Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) and a Member of the International Society of Wetland Scientists (International Chapter). He is the Editor of One Elsevier edited book entitled “Sustainable Materials for Sensing and Remediation of Noxious Pollutants”

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Scientist, ZSI, Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, Kolkata, India

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