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- Deals with bioremediation which involves processes that reduce overall treatment cost through the application of agricultural residues
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)
Part of the book sub series: Environmental Science (ENVSCIENCE)
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Current research revolves around trends to bring technology into harmony with the natural environment and in order to protect the ecosystem. Bioremediation involves processes which reduce the overall treatment costs by using agricultural residues. Regeneration of the biosorbent further increases the cost effectiveness of the process, thus warranting its future success in solving water quality problems. Special emphasis is paid to chemical modifications resulting in tailored novel biomaterials which improve its sorption efficiency and environmental stability. In this way it can be used commercially as a simple, fast, economical, ecofriendly green technology, for the removal of toxic metals from waste water particularly in rural and remote areas of the country.
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Book Title: Novel Biomaterials
Book Subtitle: Decontamination of Toxic Metals from Wastewater
Authors: Shalini Srivastava, Pritee Goyal
Series Title: Environmental Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11329-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-11328-4Published: 12 May 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26333-0Published: 03 July 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-11329-1Published: 26 April 2010
Series ISSN: 1863-5520
Series E-ISSN: 1863-5539
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 190
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations
Topics: Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Water Industry/Water Technologies, Ecotoxicology, Biomaterials