Overview
- Presents novel nanotechnologies for sustainable fuels and environmental protection
- Lists innovative methods to clean water, soil and air polluted by heavy metals, endocrine disruptors and pharmaceuticals
- Offers applied methods for professionals, textbook-type reviews for students and relevant information for use in lectures by teachers
Part of the book series: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World (ECSW, volume 2)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Air and Water Pollution
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Remediation
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About this book
Environmental chemistry is a fast developing science aimed at deciphering fundamental mechanisms ruling the behaviour of pollutants in ecosystems. Applying this knowledge to current environmental issues leads to the remediation of environmental media, and to new, low energy, low emission, sustainable processes. Chapters review analysis and remediation of pollutants such as greenhouse gases, chiral pharmaceuticals, dyes, chlorinated organics, arsenic, toxic metals and pathogen in air, water, plant and soil. Several highlights include the overlooked impact of air pollutants from buildings for health risk, innovative remediation techniques such as bioreactors for gas treatment, electrochemical cleaning of pharmaceuticals, sequestration on Fe-Mn nodules, phytoremediation and photocatalytical inactivation of microbial pathogens.
This book will be a valuable source of information for engineers and students developing novel applied techniques to monitor and clean pollutants in air, wastewater, soils and sediments.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World
Book Subtitle: Volume 2: Remediation of Air and Water Pollution
Editors: Eric Lichtfouse, Jan Schwarzbauer, Didier Robert
Series Title: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2439-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2438-9Published: 18 November 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9196-1Published: 28 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2439-6Published: 25 November 2011
Series ISSN: 2213-7114
Series E-ISSN: 2213-7122
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 541
Number of Illustrations: 91 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, general, Ecotoxicology, Analytical Chemistry