1st Edition
Control of Heavy Metals in the Environment Advanced Methods and Strategies for Heavy Metal Remediation and Environmental Protection
Offering broad coverage of advanced principals and applications, Control of Heavy Metals in the Environment: Advanced Methods and Strategies for Heavy Metal Remediation and Environmental Protection provides chemical and environmental engineers with the most complete resource available on remediation of heavy metal contaminants with an emphasis on advanced and alternative approaches. It investigates a variety of environmental pollution sources and waste characteristics that require a multitude of remediation methods. It then details the latest in clean tech advances including fungal bioprocesses, and addresses Recycling and Disposal techniques as well as metals pollution from the transportation industry. The authors delve into costs, effluent standards, and offer up several illustrative case histories to illustrate the regional and global effects of key pollution control practices.
- Provides technical information for industrial and hazardous waste treatment
- Discusses the control, treatment, and management of metal emissions from motor vehicles.
- Explores the newest methods of clean production and waste minimization
- Includes numerous figures, tables, examples, and case histories
1. METALS ON EARTH, Lawrence K. Wang and Mu-Hao Sung Wang
2. STRATEGIES FOR BIOREMEDIATION OF HEAVY METALS CONTAMINATED INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS, Priya Katyal, Harpreet Kaur, Simranpreet Kaur Natt, Yung-Tse Hung
3. SURFACE ENGINEERING OF COLLOIDAL QUATERNARY CHALCOGENIDE Cu2ZnSnS4 NANOCRYSTALS VIA LIGAND EXCHANGE FOR PHOTO-INDUCED CHARGE SEPARATION APPLICATIONS FOR WATER REMEDIATION, Pooja Semalti, Shailesh Narain Sharma, Yung-Tse Hung
4. MAGNESIUM CARBONATE COAGULATION-PRECIPITATION SYSTEM CONSISTING OF FLOCCULATION, CLARIFICATION, RECARBONATION AND FILTRATION FOR WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT, Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, (62 pages, 5 figures, 0 table, 1 appendix)
5. UTILIZATION OF FUNGAL BIOPROCESS IN HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATED WATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES, Ülküye Dudu Gül, Yung-Tse Hung,
6. DEPLETION OF HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM TO TRIVALENT CHROMIUM FROM TANNERY INDUSTRY EFFLUENT USING NATURAL BACTERIAL BIOMASS, Venkatesan Govindaraj, Yung-Tse Hung,
7. REDUCTION OF HIGH COLOR, HUMIC SUBSTANCES, TURBIDITY, COLIFORM BACTERIA, THMMFP, UV ABSORBANCE, CYSTS, CHLORINE DEMAND, AND METALS FROM UNPREDICTABLE WATER SOURCE BY DISSOLVED AIR FLOTATION AND FILTRATION, Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang ,
8. TREATING TANNERY WASTE USING STACK FLUE GAS RECYCLE, SULFIDE PRECIPITATION, CHROMIUM REMOVAL, FERROUS SULFIDE RECYCLE, FERROUS ION RECYCLE, FILTRATION, FLOTATION, MEMBRANE AND BIOREACTOR, Lawrence K. Wang, LNSP. Nagghappan, Mu-Hao Sung Wang,
9. SLUDGE DRYING BED TECHNOLOGY, Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang
10. ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTES MANAGEMENT, AND DAF LANDFILL LEACHATE PRETREATMENT, Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang
11. REMOVAL OF IRON, COPPER, COLIFORM BACTERIA AND HARDNESS FROM COOLING TOWER WATER BY DISSOLVED AIR-OZONE FLOTATION, Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang,
12. RECYCLING AND DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS SOLID WASTES CONTAINING HEAVY METALS AND OTHER TOXIC SUBSTANCES, Mu-Hao Sung Wang and Lawrence K. Wang,
13. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF ELECTROPLATING AND METAL FINISHING OPERATIONS, Mu-Hao Sung Wang and Lawrence K. Wang
14. REDUCTION OF COLOR, TURBIDITY, ODOR, HUMIC ACID, METALS, EDB, COLIFORM AND TTHM BY ADSORPTION, FLOTATION AND FILTRATION, Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang,
15. CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF AIR EMISSIONS FROM TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY, Lawrence K. Wang , Rajasekhar Balasubramanian, Jun He, and Mu-Hao Sung Wang
Biography
Lawrence K. Wang has served the society as a professor, inventor, chief engineer, chief editor and public servant (UN, USEPA, New York State) for 50+ years, with experience in entire field of environmental science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). He is a licensed NY-MA-NJ-PA-OH Professional Engineer, a certified NY-MA-RI Laboratory Director, a licensed MA-NY Water Operator, and an OSHA Instructor. He has special passion, and expertise in developing various innovative technologies, educational programs, licensing courses, international projects, academic publications, and humanitarian organizations, all for his dream goal of promoting world peace. He is a retired Acting President/Professor of the Lenox Institute of Water Technology, a Senior Advisor of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Vienna, Austria, and a former professor/visiting professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Illinois, National Cheng-Kung University, Zhejiang University, and Tongji University. Dr. Wang is the author of 750+ papers and 50+ books and is credited with 29 invention patents. He holds a BSCE degree from National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, ROC, a MSCE degree from the University of Missouri, a MS degree from the University of Rhode Island and a PhD degree from Rutgers University. Dr. Wang has been a Delegate of the People to People International Foundation, a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, a member of ASCE, AIChE, ASPE, WEF, AWWA, CIE and OCEESA, and a recipient of many US and international engineering and science awards. Mu-Hao Sung Wang has been an engineer of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, an editor of CRC Press and Lenox Institute Press, and a university professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, National Cheng-Kung University, and the Lenox Institute of Water Technology. She has been a government official, and an educator in the US and Taiwan for over 50 years. Dr. Wang is a licensed Professional Engineer, and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE). Her publications have been in the areas of water quality, modeling, environmental sustainability, solid and hazardous waste management, NPDES, flotation technology, industrial waste treatment, and analytical methods. Dr. Wang is the author of over 60 publications and an inventor of 14 US and foreign patents. She holds a BSCE degree from National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, ROC, a MS degree from the University of Rhode Island, RI, and a PhD degree from Rutgers University. She is the Coeditor of the Advances in Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment series (Taylor & Francis Group), and the Co-Series Editor of the Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics series (Lenox Institute Press). She is a member of AWWA, NYWWA, NEWWA, WEF, NEWEA, CIE and OCEESA. Yung-Tse Hung has been a professor of civil engineering at Cleveland State University since 1981. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and has taught at 16 universities in 8 countries. His research interests and publications have been involved with biological processes, and industrial waste treatment. Dr. Hung is credited with over 470 publications and presentations on water and wastewater treatment. He received his BSCE and MSCE from National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, and his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Jiaping Paul Chen is a professor of Environmental Science and Engineering in the National University of Singapore. His research interests are physicochemical treatment of water and wastewater and modeling. He has published more than 80 journal papers and book chapters with citation of above 1000 and H-index of 18. He has received various honors and awards, including Guest Professor of the Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology, and Shandong University of China, and Distinguished Overseas Chinese Young Scholar of National Natural Science Foundation of China. He is recognized as an Author of highly cited papers (Chemistry and Engineering) of ISI Web of Knowledge. Dr Chen received his ME degree from the Tsinghua University of Beijing and his PhD degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology of Atlanta, Georgia.
