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Waste Treatment in the Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Industry Using Green Environmental Technologies
This publication introduces various biotechnologies, pharmaceutical industry, basic principles of drug development, gene sequencing, bioinformatics, biotechnology applications, medical biotechnology, regulator...
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Agricultural Waste Treatment by Water Hyacinth Aquaculture, Wetland Aquaculture, Evapotranspiration, Rapid Rate Land Treatment, Slow Rate Land Treatment, and Subsurface Infiltration
This publication introduces the available emerging natural agricultural waste treatment systems, such as water hyacinth aquaculture system, wetland aquaculture system, evapotranspiration system, rapid rate lan...
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Innovative PACT Activated Sludge, CAPTOR Activated Sludge, Activated Bio-Filter, Vertical Loop Reactor, and PhoStrip Processes
This publication introduces some selected innovative suspended growth biological processes, such as innovative PACT activated sludge, CAPTOR activated sludge, activated bio-filter, Vertical Loop Reactor, and P...
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Basic Hydrology, Water Resources, and DAF Boat Plant for Lake Restoration
This chapter introduces the basic hydrology, water resources, and a dissolved air flotation (DAF) boat plant for lake water treatment. Specific coverage includes special features of water and their relationshi...
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Cationic Surfactant Analysis with Good Laboratory Practice and Waste Management
The objectives of this research are to (a) demonstrate how to select an organic solvent (such as 1,1,1-trichloroethane) for spectrophotometric determination of cationic surfactant in water and wastewater; (b) ...
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Treatment of Laundry Wastewater by Physicochemical and Flotation Processes
Laboratory and field studies were conducted to evaluate the capabilities of two commercially available laundromat waste treatment systems to treat laundromat wastes with the possibility of recycling the treate...
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Biological Processes for Water Resource Protection and Water Recovery
Current practice in the secondary treatment of wastewater for pollution control calls for the use of biological oxidation to remove organic substances. When it comes to selecting the method of biological oxida...
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Lake Restoration and Acidic Water Control
The steps leading to the demise of a lake are discussed. One of the primary causes of the death of lake is excessive biological growth, called eutrophication. Biological growth is limited primarily by the avai...
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Independent Physicochemical Wastewater Treatment System Consisting of Primary Flotation Clarification, Secondary Flotation Clarification, and Tertiary Treatment
The first wave of evolutionary development of dissolved air flotation (DAF) is its application for drinking water treatment. Today, DAF has been adopted internationally including the world’s largest city, New ...
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Physicochemical Treatment Consisting of Chemical Coagulation, Precipitation, Sedimentation, and Flotation
This publication is a collection of a few authors’ lecture materials of the Lenox Institute of Water Technology (LIWT) where the authors taught advanced humanitarian engineering courses and provided graduate e...
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Water Reclamation and Reuse for Environmental Conservation
The strategy for long-term planning and management of water resources is more and more being based on the renovation and utilization of wastewater for use in agricultural and landscape irrigation as well as in...
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Investigation and Management of Water Losses from Wet Infrastructure
During the past few decades, the city of Ar-Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, has seen a significant increase in urbanization, from a gross residential area of 8500 ha in 1980 to 62,712 ha in 1990 and up to...
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Fundamentals of Chemical Coagulation and Precipitation
Chemical treatment is considered as a useful tool for (a) pretreatment of harmful wastes, (b) early removal of undissolved precipitating substances, (c) reduction of load fluctuations, (d) combating bulking ac...
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Removal of Endocrine Disruptors for Environmental Protection
The endocrine system regulates all biological processes in the body from conception through adulthood and into old age, including the development of the brain and nervous system, the growth and function of the...
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Proper Deep-Well Waste Disposal for Water Resources Protection
Deep-well injection is one of feasible technologies for water conservation and disposal of hydrofracturing (hydraulic fracturing) process wastes and similar hazardous wastes. This chapter introduces the regula...
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Application of Natural Processes for Environmental Protection
Aquaculture or the production of aquatic organisms (both flora and fauna) under controlled conditions has been practiced for centuries, primarily for the generation of food, fiber, and fertilizer. The water hy...
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Potable Water Biotechnology, Membrane Filtration and Biofiltration
Membrane filtration is considered as a simplified drinking water treatment process, which can remove organic impurities, as well as metal ions and other ions. Nowadays, membrane processes are increasingly empl...
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Membrane Filtration Regulations and Determination of Log Removal Value
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) promulgated the Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule, which has identified membrane filtration as a treatment technology that may be used to...
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Treatment of Food Industry Foods and Wastes by Membrane Filtration
Membrane separation processes are based on the ability of semipermeable membranes of the appropriate physical and chemical nature to discriminate between molecules primarily on the basis of size and to a certa...
