Sustainable Heavy Metal Remediation Volume 1: Principles and Processes /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rene, Eldon R. (Editor), Sahinkaya, Erkan (Editor), Lewis, Alison (Editor), Lens, Piet N.L (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World, 8
• Subjects: Environment.; Environmental chemistry.; Environmental health.; Waste management.; Environmental Chemistry.; Environmental Health.; Waste Management/Waste Technology.

This book covers the principles, underlying mechanisms, thermodynamic functions, kinetics and modeling aspects of sustainable technologies, particularly from the standpoint of applying physical, chemical and biological processes for the treatment of wastewater polluted with heavy metals. Particular...

Table of Contents:

• 1: Metal removal and resource recovery technologies from waste stream
• 2: Modeling aspects of bio-sorption for heavy metal removal from wastewater using microbial biomass
• 3: Biosorption and permeable reactive barriers
• 4: Precipitation
• 5: Phytoremediation of landfill leachate
• 6: Recovery of metals through bioelectrochemical treatment systems
• 7: Bioprecipitation of metals and metalloids
• 8: Biosolubilisation of metals and metalloids.