Waste Management and the Environment: VI
Published on 1. June 2012
Book
Leather / fine binding
448 pages
978-1-84564-606-6 (ISBN)
Description
Waste management can be problematic. Especially with the emphasis in many countries now being on sustainability, there is a great need for more research on disposal methods. While we have found ways to reduce the volume of waste that needs to be disposed, questions remain about the environmental and safety aspects of certain recycled materials and the by-products of waste management activities, current technology improvements, and regulatory and monitoring problems. Featuring papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment, this book contains contributions on the topics such as: Environmental Impact; Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (3 Rs); Cost and Benefits of Management Options; Waste Incineration and Gasification; Energy from Waste; Industrial Waste Management; Nuclear and Hazardous Waste; Agricultural Waste; Wastewater.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Southampton
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84564-606-6 (9781845646066)
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Content
Contents Section 1: Environmental impact Illegal dumping investigation: a new challenge for forensic environmental engineering; Local environmental impact from MSW aerobic biological treatment; Transformations of sulfur compounds in oil shale ash suspension; Traditional food markets, power relations and waste management: a qualitative study Section 2: Reduce, reuse and recycle (3Rs) Residents' knowledge of waste reduction, reusing and recycling in Makurdi metropolis, Nigeria; Benefit of composting application over landfill on municipal solid waste management in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Section 3: Cost and benefits of management options Extended producer responsibility (EPR) and job creation in Korea; Economic viability of LFG recovery under the CDM mechanism Section 4: Waste incineration and gasification Thermal gasification of agro-industrial residues; A comparative study for energetic valorisation of partially digested sewage sludge; Waste gasification in up-draft fixed-bed gasifier: experimental study and model validation Section 5: Energy from waste Energy recovery from unused and expired medicines; Food waste to energy to food; Comparison of the combustion behaviours of agricultural wastes under dry air and oxygen; Determining a priority order between thermic utilization processes for organic industrial waste with LCA; Sustainable waste processing in a grate furnace and in a fluidized bed incinerator: WtE, recycling and environmental concerns; Process simulation and sensitivity analysis of waste plastics gasification in a fluidized bed reactor; Influential factors on the oil agglomeration process for coal recovery from different grade coals; RDF/SRF evolution and MSW bio-drying Section 6: Industrial waste management Analysis of the industrial solid wastes from the boat building sector in Marche region (Italy): parametrical and chemical-physical characterisation; On the possibility of using vitrified forts as anthropogenic analogues for assessment of long-term behaviour of vitrified waste; Utilization of waste spent hydroprocessing catalyst: development of a process for full recovery of deposited metals and alumina support; Lead acid battery recycling in Costa Rica: a case of study; Recycling practices of crushed MgO-C bricks and dolomite sinter fines used as a slag conditioning additive in the EAF; Characterisation of Chromium-Copper-Arsenic (CCA) treated wood waste from a steel-making environment Section 7: Nuclear and hazardous waste Classification of waste as hazardous or non-hazardous: the cases of ash and slag; Isolation of hazardous soil contaminated by DU (depleted uranium) from groundwater; Proposed site selection criteria for hazardous waste disposal facilities in Iraq Section 8: Agricultural waste Study of the antioxidant potential of forestry biomass waste; The use of mixed effluent liquid wastes as a source of valuable nutrients; Numerical simulation of nitrogen groundwater pollution for proper management of cow manure; Effect of phenol concentrations on the condensation reaction during the liquefaction of waste woody materials with phenol Section 9: Wastewater Pride Park: from redevelopment of a landfill site to long-term operational experience; Synthetic socioeconomic based domestic wastewater hydrographs for small arid communities; Removal of cadmium from waste water using Saudi activated bentonite; Effect of microbial activity on dimethyl sulfoxide degradation in an air-lift bioreactor; Performance of an acid stable nanofiltration membrane for nickel removal from aqueous solutions: effects of concentration, solution pH and ionic strength