Handbook of Environmental Engineering
Volume 1 / 1979 to Volume 28 / 2023
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Various Technologies in Healthcare Waste Management and Disposal
The healthcare waste (HCW) generation kept increasing over these few years due to people beginning to conceive of the importance of health. The sudden increase in HCW due to the high usage of personal protecti...
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Biochar for Adsorptive Removal of Pharmaceuticals from Environmental Water
Pharmaceutical contaminants are increasingly found in the aqua environment. The effective removal of pharmaceuticals from wastewater streams is a major worldwide challenge. Adsorption technology is considered ...
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Treatment and Management of Hazardous Solid Waste Stream by Incineration
Hazardous waste is generated from many sources, ranging from industrial, manufacturing processes, agricultural practices, etc., and may come in many forms, including liquids, solids, gases, and sludges. The wa...
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Application of Secondary Flotation-Filtration and Coagulant Recycle for Improvement of a Pulp Mill Primary Waste Treatment Facility
An Asian pulp mill uses the bleached Kraft pul** process and has three major wastewater streams: (a) alkaline wastewater, FBE; (b) acidic wastewater, FAE; and (c) neutral wastewater, RWE. Its existing primar...
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Treatment of Palm Oil Mill Effluent
Palm oil is one of the two most significant vegetable oils on the global market for oils and fats. Despite its many positive effects on agriculture and the economy, the palm oil sector has also caused serious ...
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Technologies for Removal of Hazardous Volatile Organic Compounds from Industrial Effluents and/or Potable Water Sources
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are one of the most significant gaseous air pollutants due to their evident characteristics, which include high volatility, extreme toxicity, and low degradability. VOCs are r...
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Correction to: Industrial Waste Engineering
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Laboratory Waste Management and Treatment
Laboratory facilities, whether located in the industrial block or even within academic and research institutes, are not excluded from generating hazardous waste. The generation was primarily due to the nature ...
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Removal of Fe and Mn from Groundwater
The increasing population has resulted in an insufficient supply of drinking water from surface water, and groundwater is an alternative drinking water supply. However, the groundwater may be polluted by vario...
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Occurrence, Behaviour and Transport of Heavy Metals from Industries in River Catchments
Heavy metal pollution has escalated significantly in recent decades as a consequence of the fast acceleration of urbanisation and industrialisation. Due to the fact that metals are resilient and, in most cases...
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Dredging and Mining Operations, Management, and Environmental Impacts
Industrial operations, such as mining and dredging together with their downstream processing, are crucial economic sectors for long-term economic development. However, environmental hazards may occur if mining...
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Treatment of Hazardous Sludge from Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants
Sludge is known as a by-product of water and wastewater treatment, and the production of sludge is increasing every year and has become a critical problem to the industry, especially for its handling and stora...
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Treatment of Toxicant Dye Compounds in Wastewater by Modified Natural Coagulant
Researchers favour the fact that natural polymer provides biodegradability and is non-toxic to the environment. Considering it requires a high dosage of polymer to be effective, which leads to an increased cos...
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Correction to: Sustainable Solid Waste Management
The original version of this book was published with the chapter author’s name “Dr. Olaolu George Fadugba” incorrectly sequenced/cited and is now corrected as “O. G. Fadugba”.
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Solid Waste Management in the Tourism Industry
Tourism can generate a lot of opportunities and income, but it also has a lot of negative environmental and health consequences. The production of municipal solid waste and wastewater is one of the most signif...
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Electronic and Electrical Equipment Waste Disposal
The disposal of the Wastes of Electronic and Electric Equipment (WEEE) is an emerging stream of waste that has been increasing drastically recently. The intensifying of the quantity of WEEE is due to rapid tec...
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Energy Recovery from Solid Waste
The growing amount of solid waste (SW) and the related waste disposal problems urge the development of a more sustainable waste management practice. The organic wastes that are generated include food scraps, y...
