Biological Treatment of Solid Waste: Enhancing Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9781771882798 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 310 str.

Elena C. Rada

Opis

Intended for a wide audience ranging from engineers and academics to decision-makers in both the public and private sectors, Biological Treatment of Solid Waste: Enhancing Sustainability reviews several technologies that help communities manage solid waste sustainably, while at the same time generating energy, revenue, and other resources.

The book is divided into three topics:

• Microbial technologies for solid waste treatment
• Composting
• Biodrying

Included within these larger topics are case studies and investigations into particular aspects of each, with attention paid to food waste, animal waste, municipal waste, and certain forms of industrial waste. The editor is an environmental engineer with an international reputation, and she has included her own research studies as well as that of her colleagues, many of which have been presented at international waste management conferences. She concludes that our world can no longer afford to consider waste as something that can be discarded with no regard for future use. Instead, if addressed correctly through policy and practice, solid waste can become a valuable resource.

Spis treści

Introduction;  Microbial Technologies;  Management Options of Food Waste: A Review;  F. Girotto, L. Alibardi, and R. Cossu;  Effect of Increasing Total Solids Contents on Anaerobic Digestion of Food Waste under Mesophilic Conditions: Performance and Microbial Characteristics Analysis;  Jing Yi, Bin Dong, Jingwei Jin, and Xiaohu Dai;  Microbial Anaerobic Digestion (Bio-Digesters) as an Approach to the Decontamination of Animal Wastes in Pollution Control and the Generation of Renewable Energy;  Christy E. Manyi-Loh, Sampson N. Mamphweli, Edson L. Meyer, Anthony I. Okoh, Golden Makaka, and Michael Simon;  New Steady-State Microbial Community Compositions and Process Performances in Biogas Reactors Induced by Temperature Disturbances;  Gang Luo, Davide De Francisci, Panagiotis G. Kougias, Treu Laura, Xinyu Zhu, and Irini Angelidaki;  Composting;  Composting of Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste: A Pilot Plant in Maxixe District, Mozambique;  C. Collivignarelli, A. Perteghella, and M. Vacchari;  Changes in Bacterial and Fungal Communities across Compost Recipes, Preparation Methods, and Composting Times;  Deborah A. Neher, Thomas R. Weicht, Scott T. Bates, Jonathan W. Leff, and Noah Fierer;  Effects of Bulking Agents, Load Size or Starter Cultures in Kitchen-Waste Composting;  Norazlin Abdullah, Nyuk Ling Chin, Mohd Noriznan Mokhtar, and Farah Saleena Taip;  Microbial Diversity of Vermicompost Bacteria that Exhibit Useful Agricultural Traits and Waste Management Potential;  Jayakumar Pathma and Natarajan Sakthivel;  Biodrying;  Criteria for Assessing the Viability of a Small Scale MSW Bio-Drying Plant Aimed at RDF Production for Local Use;  E. C. Rada and M. Ragazzi;  Technical and Economic Efficiency of Utilization of Biogas from Animal Waste for Energy Generation;  E. Minciuc, R. Patrascu, M. Norisor, and D. Tutica;  Potential of Bio-Drying Applied to Exhausted Grape Marc;  Elena Cristina Rada and Marco Ragazzi;  Index