Principles and Applications of Aquatic Chemistry

Principles and Applications of Aquatic Chemistry
Author: François M. M. Morel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 610
Release: 1993-03-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780471548966

Presents aquatic chemistry in a way that is truly useful to those with diverse backgrounds in the sciences. Major improvements to this edition include a complete rewrite of the first three background chapters making them user-friendly. There is less emphasis on mathematics and concepts are illustrated with actual examples to facilitate understanding.

The Long-Range Atmospheric Transport of Natural and Contaminant Substances

The Long-Range Atmospheric Transport of Natural and Contaminant Substances
Author: Anthony H. Knap
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400905033

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on The Long-Range Atmospheric Transport of Natural and Contaminant Substances from Continent to Ocean and Continent to Continent, St. Georges, Bermuda, January 10-17, 1988

Proceedings

Proceedings
Author: International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology
Publisher:
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2002
Genre: Freshwater biology
ISBN:

Surfactant - Based Separation Processes

Surfactant - Based Separation Processes
Author: John F. Scamehorn
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2020-11-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000103749

Complete with bibliographic citations and illustrations, this volume focuses on novel techniques and reviews established methods for surfactant-based separation processes that can be widely applied in industry. Describes new extraction techniques, and introduces micellar-enhanced ultrafiltration and admicellar chromatography, discusses protein extraction using reverse micelles, surfactant-enhanced carbon regeneration, and demonstrates new methods of turning waste streams containing dilute concentrations of valuable materials into product streams and examines such traditional surfactant-based methods as froth flotation and foam fractionation.

Bioremediation of Industrial Waste for Environmental Safety

Bioremediation of Industrial Waste for Environmental Safety
Author: Gaurav Saxena
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2019-06-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811318913

Achieving environmental sustainability with rapid industrialization is a major challenge of current scenario worldwide. As globally evident, industries are the key economic drivers, but are also the major polluters as untreated/partially treated effluents discharged from the industries is usually thrown into the aquatic resources and also dumped unattended. Industrial effluents are considered as the major sources of environmental pollution as these contains highly toxic and hazardous pollutants, which reaches far off areas due to the medium of dispersion and thus, create ecological nuisance and health hazards in living beings. Hence, there is an urgent to find ecofriendly solution to deal with industrial waste, and develop sustainable methods for treating/detoxifying wastewater before its release into the environment. Being a low cost and eco-friendly clean technology, bioremediation can be a sustainable alternative to conventional remediation technologies for treatment and management of industrial wastes to protect public health and environment. Therefore, this book (Volume I) covers the bioremediation of different industrial wastes viz. tannery wastewater, pulp and paper mill wastewater, distillery wastewater, acid mine tailing wastes, and many more; which are lacking in a comprehensive manner in previous literature at one place. A separate chapter dedicated to major industries and type of waste produced by them is also included. This book will appeal to students, researchers, scientists, industry persons and professionals in field of microbiology, biotechnology, environmental sciences, eco-toxicology, environmental remediation and waste management and other relevant areas, who aspire to work on the biodegradation and bioremediation of industrial wastes for environmental safety.

Large Lakes

Large Lakes
Author: Max M. Tilzer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 699
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642840779

The vast majority of the world's lakes are small in size and short lived in geological terms. Only 253 of the thousands of lakes on this planet have surface areas larger than 500 square kilometers. At first sight, this statistic would seem to indicate that large lakes are relatively unimportant on a global scale; in fact, however, large lakes contain the bulk of the liquid surface freshwater of the earth. Just Lake Baikal and the Laurentian Great Lakes alone contain more than 38% of the world's total liquid freshwater. Thus, the large lakes of the world accentuate an important feature of the earth's freshwater reserves-its extremely irregular distribution. The energy crisis of the 1970s and 1980s made us aware of the fact that we live on a spaceship with finite, that is, exhaustible resources. On the other hand, the energy crisis led to an overemphasis on all the issues concerning energy supply and all the problems connected with producing new energy. The energy crisis also led us to ignore strong evidence suggesting that water of appropriate quality to be used as a resouce will be used up more quickly than energy will. Although in principle water is a "renewable resource," the world's water reserves are diminishing in two fashions, the effects of which are multiplicative: enhanced consumption and accelerated degradation of quality.