Waste Management and the Environment
Published on 20. May 2008
Book
Hardback
960 pages
978-1-84564-113-9 (ISBN)
Description
Waste Management is becoming one of the key problems of the modern world - an international issue that is intensified by the volume and complexity of society's domestic and industrial waste. Unfortunately, many of the practices adopted in the past were aimed at short-term solutions without sufficient regard or knowledge for long-term implications on health, the environment or sustainability and this, in many cases, is leading to the need to take difficult and expensive remedial action.With our growing awareness of the detrimental environmental effects of current waste disposal, there is a significant onus on accountability for effective waste management. Better practice and safer solutions are required. There is a need for more research not only on current disposal methods such as landfill, incineration, chemical and effluent treatment, but also on recycling, waste minimization, clean technologies, waste monitoring, public and corporate awareness, and general education.Featuring papers published at the Fourth International Conference on Waste Management and the Environment, this book contains contributions on the following topics: reduce, reuse and recycle (3r's); advanced waste treatment technology; clean technologies; waste reduction and recycling; wastewater treatment, resources recovery; waste incineration and gasification; waste pre-treatment, separation and transformation; methodologies and practices; landfills, design, construction and monitoring; soil and groundwater clean-up; community awareness; biological treatment of waste; air pollution control; hazardous waste; waste management; construction and demolition waste; costs and benefits of waste management options; energy from waste; and risk assessment.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Southampton
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84564-113-9 (9781845641139)
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Persons
Content
Section 1: Advanced waste treatment technology Environmental use of HCFA: oil soil clean up; Ultrasound assisted removal of estrogen hormones; Development of process envelopes for cement-based stabilisation/solidification of metal treatment filtercakes; Two-phase pyrolysis modelling of wooden waste; Kinetic and modeling of radiolytic decomposition of antibiotics Section 2: Energy from waste Waste management in the built environment on the basis of decentralization and integration strategies: the 'urban metabolism'; Small decentralised thermal power stations for Refuse-Derived Fuel (RDF); Physical and chemical properties of fuel containing animal waste; Energy production from high level radioactive waste at the Ignalina NPP; Role of Refuse Derived Fuel in the Romanian industrial sector after the entrance in EU; Squeezing wastes in a wastewater treatment plant; The use of wastes as alternative fuels in cement production; Rubbish or resources: an investigation of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) to bio-ethanol production; Biohydrogen production by Clostridium beijerinckii; Comparing three options for biodiesel production from waste vegetable oil; A new high rate anaerobic technology, the static granular bed reactor (SGBR), for renewable energy production from medium strength waste streams Section 3: Landfills, design, construction and monitoring Biodegradation stability of organic solid waste characterized by physico-chemical parameters; Characterization of the leachate produced in the closed cells of a landfill site at Alhendin (Granada, Spain); Environmental diagnosis of landfills in Venezuela using EVIAVE methodology; Gravity driven dewatering systems for landfill expansion; A new approach to solid waste landfills aerial monitoring Section 4: Resources recovery Effective utilization of coal fly ash containing unburned carbon; Exploitation of the solid waste of porfiritis in pozzolanic cements; Organized and informal recycling: social movements contributing to sustainability; Evaluating the thermal stability and sorption capacity of several compost chars; Development of nature protection measures after emergency spills of oil products; Extraction of enzymes from activated sludge Section 5: Waste incineration and gasification Poultry litter valorization to energy; Basic research on the formation characteristics of nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the combustion process; Combustion of lignocellulosic materials in an experimental fluidized bed system; Hydrogen content and calorific value of municipal solid waste: innovative quality control strategies of waste fed to incinerators; Oxygen-enhanced combustion in waste incineration: economic and environmental considerations; Evaluation of thermodynamic efficiency of biowaste gasification Section 6: Hazardous waste Hazardous-waste containers in cementitious materials: leakage test on small-scale specimens and on full-scale prototypes; Effect of high temperature on immobilization of heavy metals in concrete with an addition of galvanic sludge; Destruction of PCBs in transformer oil by an E-beam; Hazardous waste management in Egypt: performance indicators for industry Section 7: Computer modelling Simulation of constructed wetland performance using the advection diffusion equation; Preferential flow modelling in the vadose zone using MACRO 5.0: cape flats sands and Mpumalanga clays case studies (South Africa) Section 8: Reduce, reuse and recycle (3R's) A decentralized/self-sustaining (infra-free) kitchen-system proposal with a home incinerator and Sabatier reactor-integrated waste management utility; Eco industrial parks: a tool towards the reduction, reuse and recycling (3R's) of by-products and wastes: case study in Paracambi EIP, Rio de Janeiro State; Blast furnaces' mud: waste or a new by-product?; Single stream versus two stream recycling: an examination of costs and recovery rates of current programs in Ontario, Canada; Technical detailing principles for the design of adaptable and reusable construction elements in temporary dwellings; Towards sustainable waste management through structural testing of rice straw bale cement plasters Section 9: Construction and demolition waste Concrete containing thermoplastic waste as aggregates - the effect on the rebars' corrosion; The reuse of waste from road resurfacing: cold in-place recycling of bituminous pavement, an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional pavement rehabilitation methods; Construction and demolition waste management in China: analysis of economic instruments for solving a growing problem; Construction waste management in a developing country: case study of Ipoh, Malaysia; An investigation of design waste causes in construction; The development of construction waste production indicators for the Irish construction industry Section 10: Waste reduction and recycling Chemical recycling of PET by alkaline hydrolysis in the presence of quaternary phosphonium and ammonium salts as phase transfer catalysts; Heat absorbing glass from rice husk ash for a sustainable environment; Trash or treasure, where is the line? Issues, limitations and opportunities for reusing and recycling waste: a South Australian perspective Section 11: Waste management Dynamic Waste Management (DWM): A new step towards industrial ecology; Origins of chlorine in MSW and RDF: species and analytical methods; Waste enhanced with new values to become a new resource; Adiox(R) for dioxin removal in wet scrubbers and semi-wet or dry absorbers; The fate of Tc in a UK intermediate-level nuclear waste repository; The co-disposal of colliery waste; Effect of an organic residue on herbicide field dissipation; Waste management in the city of Shah Alam, Malaysia; Effects of recent strategies of selective collection on the design of municipal solid waste treatment plants in Italy; The impact of the public and private waste sector on solid waste management practices in small Welsh hotels; Industrial wood residuals: experimental property characterization and lab-scale burning tests; Solid waste management in Asian countries: problems and issues; An application of anaerobic baffled reactor to produce biogas from kitchen waste; Fate of Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA); A brief study on environmental protection management in P.R.C.; Impacts of solid waste management in Pakistan: a case study of Rawalpindi city Section 12: Methodologies and practices Measurement of fats, oil and grease by spectro-photometry and its application on different sites at Sao Paulo State, Brazil; How to compare industrial techniques to Best Available Techniques? Section 13: Soil and groundwater clean-up The minimization of wastes produced during the treatment of arsenic contaminated drinking water; Preventing acid mine drainage from mine tailings; Effect of phosphorus in commercial fertilizers on phytoavailability cadmium and zinc uptake by sugarcane; Biological treatment of petroleum contaminated soils by soil slurry-sequencing batch reactors (SS-SBRs) Section 14: Wastewater treatment Development of a novel high performance continuous cake-less filtration system; Fenton oxidation and biological treatment on pharmaceutical wastewater; Chromium and phosphorous recovery from polluted water by hydrothermal mineralization; Potentiometric biosensor for acrylamide determination in wastewater using wild type amidase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Persistence and fate of highly soluble pharmaceutical products in various types of municipal wastewater treatment plants; Removal of copper, nickel and lead from wastewater using a modified cellulose material: a comparison; A study on the starch and cellulose industries' wastewater treatment by biological methods; Equilibrium modelling of Cr (VI) biosorption by olive stone; Study of PHAs (polyhydroxyalkanoates) production from activated sludge Section 15: Air pollution control Low temperature soot oxidation via the melting process of alkaline salts; Catalytic performance of chlorinated Ce/Zr mixed oxides for Cl-VOC oxidation Section 16: Community awareness Using recycled water for agricultural purposes in the Thessaly region, Greece: a primary investigation of citizens' opinions; Feedlot operation problems from floods in southern Alberta: a Canadian case study Section 17: Risk assessment Simulation of radiation damage in rocks considered for safe storage of nuclear waste; Emission behaviour and Hg speciation from waste incinerators; Occupational bioaerosol exposure in composting plants