Development in Waste Water Treatment Research and Processes

Treatment and Reuse of Sewage Sludge: An Innovative Approach for Wastewater Treatment: Developments in Waste Water Treatment Research and Processes series, focuses on the exploitation of various treatment technologies and their use to treat sewage sludge to detoxify/stabilize toxic and hazardous contaminants and restore contaminated sites, which lacks in a more comprehensive manner in currently existing titles on similar topics. The book includes current beneficial sludge utilization practices such as land application, energy recovery, use as an alternative fuel source, use as a construction material and resource recovery from sewage sludge using emerging technologies.

In addition, the book includes numerous current and advanced sewage sludge treatment and reuse technologies and associated microbes to effectively treat and manage hazardous industrial wastes/or wastewater pollutants for environmental safety, sustainability and public health protection. The book is a reference for all researchers working in the field of environmental engineering, bioengineering, waste management, and related fields.

• Provides natural and eco-friendly solutions to deal with the problem of sewage sludge treatment and its reuse
• Details underlying mechanisms of nanotechnology associated microbes for the treatment and reuse of sewage sludge
• Includes numerous tables and flow diagrams to assist in the comprehension of new and existing sludge treatments and resource recovery technologies
• Covers biogas production by continuous thermal hydrolysis and thermophilic anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge
• Presents information on the recovery of valuable metals from sludge
• Includes opportunities and challenges in the bio refinery-based valorization of sewage sludge