Heavy Metal Contamination of Water and Soil: Analysis, Assessment, and Remediation Strategies

ISBN-13: 9781771880046 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 386 str.

Elham Asrari

Opis

Although adverse health effects of heavy metals have been known for a long time, exposure to heavy metals continues and is even increasing in some areas. Remediating heavy metal contaminated soils and water is necessary to reduce the associated health and ecological risks, make the land resource available for agricultural production, enhance food security, and scale down land tenure problems. This book discusses the causes and the environmental impact of heavy metal contamination. It then explores many exciting new methods of analysis and decontamination currently studied and applied in the field today.

Spis treści

Introduction. Heavy Metals in Contaminated Soils: A Review of Sources, Chemistry, Risks and Best Available Strategies for Remediation. Heavy Metal Contamination. Leaching Behavior of Heavy Metals and Transformation of Their Speciation in Polluted Soil Receiving Simulated Acid Rain. Spatially Explicit Analysis of Metal Transfer to Biota: Influence of Soil Contamination and Landscape. Heavy Metal Contamination of Soil and Sediment in Zambia. Human Exposure Pathways of Heavy Metals in a Lead-Zinc Mining Area, Jiangsu Province, China. Analysis and Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination. Integrated Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination in Sediments from a Coastal Industrial Basin, NE China. A Determination of Metallothionein in Larvae of Freshwater Midges (Chironomus riparius) Using Brdicka Reaction. Multivariate Statistical Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution Sources of Groundwater Around a Lead and Zinc Plant. Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination of Agricultural Soil around Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ), Bangladesh: Implication of Seasonal Variation and Indices. Remediation of Heavy Metal Contamination. Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals: A Green Technology. Assessment of the Efficacy of Chelate-Assisted Phytoextraction of Lead by Coffeeweed (Sesbania exaltata Raf.). Sustainable Sources of Biomass for Bioremediation of Heavy Metals in Waste Water Derived from Coal-Fired Power Generation. Characterization of the Metabolically Modified Heavy Metal-Resistant Cupriavidus metallidurans Strain MSR33 Generated for Mercury Bioremediation. A Ferritin from Dendrorhynchus zhejiangensis with Heavy Metals Detoxification Activity. Index.

O autorze

Asrari, Elham|