Bücher der Reihe Advances in Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment

Covers environmental pollution sources, waste characteristics, control technologies, management strategies, facility innovations, process alternatives, costs, case histories, and effluent standards in industry. This volume delineates methods, technologies, and the regional and global effects of important pollution control practices.

Discusses the importance and contamination of metals such as lead, chromium, cadmium, zinc, copper, nickel, iron, and mercury. This book covers important research of metals in the environment, the processes and mechanisms for metals control and removal, and heavy metal removal by expopolysaccharide-producing cyanobacteria.

Outlines the fundamentals and of waste treatment in various process industries, such as pharmaceuticals, textiles, petroleum, soap, detergent, phosphate, paper, pulp, pesticides, rubber, and power. This book provides information that is directly applicable to daily waste management problems throughout the industry.