Novel Approaches Towards Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery Technologies

Novel Approaches towards Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery Technologies discusses various cost-efficient aspects of wastewater treatment along with resource recovery options. The book covers biological wastewater treatment, the application of membranes and their modifications, advanced oxidation techniques, and the application of nanoparticles for the enhancement of performance as well as various integrated technologies for resource recovery along with pilot scale potentials. The book covers both domestic and industrial wastewaters and provides resources for sustainable solutions. It provides the basic fundamentals and recent updated data. Case studies are included to give the glimpse of the real-world application. Similarly, pilot scale studies are considered for real life implementation of the concept.

PART 1: BIOLOGICAL BASED TREATMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY 1. Fundamentals of bio-electrochemical systems for wastewater treatment: Challenges and opportunities for resource recovery 2. Microbial fuel cell (MFC) based wastewater treatment and resource recovery 3. Microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) based wastewater treatment and resource recovery 4. Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) cell-based wastewater treatment and resource recovery 5. Microbial desalination cell (MDC) based wastewater treatment and resource recovery 6. Use of bio-electrochemical system for distillery/dairy/petrochemical/tannery/ paper industry effluents and resource recovery PART 2: MEMBRANE BASED TREATMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY 7. Fundamentals of membranes for wastewater treatment: Challenges and opportunities for resource recovery 8. Hollow fiber membranes for wastewater treatment and resource recovery 9. Advances in membranes for industrial effluents for resource recovery                       10. Parameter optimization by mathematical modelling for membrane separation process PART 3: ADVANCED OXIDATION PROCESS (AOP) BASED WASTEWATER TREATMENT 11. Fundamentals of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for wastewater treatment: Challenges and opportunities 12. Ultrasonication based wastewater treatment 13. Fenton/Photo-Fenton processes for wastewater treatment and disinfection 14. AOPs for Petrochemical/Textile/Tannery industry wastewater treatment PART 4: NANOTECHNOLOGY BASED TREATMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY 15. Fundamentals of engineered nanoparticles for wastewater treatment: Challenges and opportunities for resource recovery 16. Nano-biotechnology for bacterial modification for wastewater treatment and resource recovery 17. Carbon Nano tubes (CNT) based hybrid nano fluids for the wastewater treatment plants in the industry 18. Nano-particle-enhanced ionic liquids (NEIL) for the wastewater treatment PART 5: INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGIES FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY 19. Resource recovery from human urine for sustainable development 20. Integration of bio-electrochemical systems and wetlands for wastewater treatment and resource recovery 21. Ceramic/Earthen membranes-based bio-electrochemical systems for wastewater treatment and resource recovery 22. Hybrid wastewater treatment systems using hydrodynamic cavitation/ultrasound/ Fenton   Processes etc. for effective treatment of wastewater PART 6: SCALE-UP/PILOT SCALE STUDIES FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 23. Pilot scale constructed wetlands (CW) for wastewater and resource recovery 24. Pilot scale membrane reactors for Urine treatment and resource recovery 25. Pilot scale advance oxidation process for industrial effluent treatment