Pollution Abatement and Control

Contents: Preface. 1. Wastewater Treatment Plants: Application of Dimensional Analysis for Design Purposes/S.N. Kaul, D.R. Saini and P. Kaul. 2. Application of Fluidized Bed Reactor for Recovery of Chemicals from Pickling Wastewater/S.N. Kaul and T. Nandy. 3. Compatibility of Continuous Flow in Comparison with Windrow, Batch and Semi-Continuous Vermireactor System/S.N. Kaul, A.B. More, P. More and H. Gunjal. 4. Study of UASB Reactor System as a Pretreatment Facility for Hydrogenated Oil Industry Wastewater/Sunita Shastry, Tapas Nandy, S.R. Wate and S.N. Kaul. 5. Adsorption of Methylene Blue from Aqueous Solutions by an Economically Viable Indigenous Activated Carbon/Y.C. Sharma, Uma S.N. Kaul and S.N. Upadhyay. 6. Biofiltration/Kiran Singh, R.S. Singh, B.N. Rai and S.N. Kaul. 7. Biofiltration of Xylene Using Wood Charcoal as a Biofilter Media/Kiran Singh, R.S. Singh, B.N. Rai, S.N. Upadhyay and S.N. Kaul. 8. Activated Carbon: An Adsorbent for Pollution Control/Vinay K. Srivastav, Jitendra K. Pandey and D.R. Saini. 9. Assessment of the Environmental Exposure of Honey Bees to Neonicotinoid Insecticides coming from Corn Coated Seeds/Andrea Tapparo, Vincenzo Girolami, Luca Mazzon, Chiara Giorio, Matteo Marzaro and Andrea Targa. 10. Agricultural Waste to Energy: New or Old Agricultural Paradigm?/M. Bruna Zolin. 11. An Innovative Approach in Remediation of Soils Contaminated by Hydrocarbons/Paolo Plescia and Maria Tocino Amor.12. Dynamic Heavy Media Separation in Plastics Recycling Industry/Paolo Bozano, Paolo Bozzato and Girolamo Belardi. 13. The Mechano-Chemistry for the Energy Recovery from Urban from Exhaust Batteries/Paolo Plescia and Maria Amor Tocimo. 14. Application of Hydrometallurgical Process for Metals Recovery from Exhaust Batteries/Stefano Ubaldini, Pietro Fornari, Ida De Michelis and Francesco Ferella. 15. Pesticide Hazards, Monitoring and Control/H.S. Rathore…..

In the past few years we have seen the emergence growing demand, widespread desire in our country and indeed everywhere, that positive action is required to be taken to restore the quality of our environment for survival to protect it from the degrading effects of all forms of pollution-air, water, noise, solid waste (Electronic, Nuclear etc). Since the seemingly idealistic demand for “zero discharge” can be construed as a demand for zero waste. However, as long as there is waste, we can only attempt to abate the consequent pollution by converting it to a less noxious form. In those instances, in which a particular type of pollution has been recognized, three major questions usually arise; how serious is the pollution? Is the technology to abate it available? and Do the costs of abatement justify the degree of abatement achieved ? The principal objectives of this book on Pollution Abatement and Control will be helpful in formulating the useful answers to these questions and to examine the benefits that could accrue to the society form abatement of pollution; otherwise nature has its own plans.