Description:
This book examines processes, emerging technologies, and applications related to the decontamination of heavy metals in the environment. Focusing on the major hazardous heavy metals, it explores their treatment, removal, recovery, disposal, management, and modeling. The author covers cutting-edge technologies for decontamination, including precipitation, crystallization, sorption, ion exchange, and electrolysis. Mathematical models for metal removal and recovery are also included. A handbook for professionals, researchers, and students, it gathers technical information and recent research to help readers develop a feasible total metal control program that can benefit industry and local municipalities.
Review Quotes:
This book covers fundamental theories of metal removal, including calculation of metal ion uptake in environmental systems. Professionals and students working in environmental engineering may find this book a very useful reference. ... This book is organized with a deliberately logical flow, defining concepts at the beginning, and gradually building up theories and applications.
--Dr. Gang Chen, Florida State University, USA