Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Environmental - General

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

This new book provides a multiperspective look at research into many elements of remediating environmental hazards connected to sewage and landfill leachate. Sewage and landfill leachate treatments include various processes that are used to manage and dispose of the liquid portions of solid waste. Untreated leachate and sewage are hazards to the environment if they enter the water system. The goal of treatment is to reduce the contaminating load to the point that leachate and sewage liquids may be safely released into...

Wind power has developed rapidly in terms of the number of new wind power plants now installed in more than hundred countries around the world. This renewable energy source has become competitive, and to be able to combat climate change much more has to be installed in coming years. This also makes it necessary for policy makers, NGOs, research scientists, industry and the general public to have a basic understanding of wind power.

The majority of texts on wind power are written primarily for engineers or policy analysts. This book specifically targets those interested in, or...

This important new book covers recent advancements, innovations, and technologies in industrial biotechnology, specifically addressing the application of various biomolecules in industrial production and in cleaning and environmental remediation sectors.

The goal of industrial biotechnology is to develop new techniques and technologies to transform renewable raw materials into chemicals, materials, and fuels by the substitution of fossil fuels. With the increase in the world s population and the resultant growing energy demand, the need for more energy can be successfully...

India is facing a river pollution crisis today. The origins of this crisis are commonly traced back to post-Independence economic development and urbanisation. This book, in contrast, shows that some important early roots of India s river pollution problem, and in particular the pollution of the Ganges, lie with British colonial policies on wastewater disposal during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Analysing the two cornerstones of colonial river pollution history during the late 19th and early 20th centuries the introduction of sewerage systems and the introduction of...

Das Recycling von Altgeraten, Werkstoffen und anderen Materialien leistet einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Ressourcenschonung, Schadstoffbeseitigung und Energieeinsparung sowie zur Reduzierung von Deponievolumen. Die einsetzbare Recyclingtechnik ist dabei eine grundlegende Voraussetzung fur die wirtschaftliche Realisierung der Prozesse.

Das Buch behandelt zu Beginn die verfugbaren mechanischen, thermischen und physikalisch-chemischen Verfahrenstechniken. In den folgenden materialspezifischen Abschnitten werden die Werkstofftypen und Abfallsorten vorgestellt und daraus die moglichen...

Bent Sorensen, one of the world's leading experts in the field of renewable energy systems, explores the current hurdles to the universal adoption of renewable energy sources and proposes solutions to the current situation in this new inspiring work. He discusses the social, political and economic issues that make sustainability seem like such an attainable goal, and explores the ways through which change can be achieved without loss of welfare.

Even though the author has written several scientific monographs covering the technical issues behind the energy and social transitions...

This book provides comprehensive information related to the extraction, isolation, and potential uses of bioactive compounds from agricultural and food waste for utilization in the food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. The topics include an overview on challenges and opportunities related to agricultural and food waste, the bioactive compounds in the waste, and the techniques used to analyse, extract, and isolate these compounds for potential waste utilization.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

Climate change threatens our planet's future. Since it's too late to prevent climate change, we must find ways to prepare for it, while doing all we can to slow down the processes that are causing it. The editor of this compendium, an experienced and respected scientist in the field, has collected research vital to the challenges we are facing. The book offers a multi-perspective look at ways to reduce greenhouse gases and find fossil fuel alternatives from a truly international roster of researchers and scientists.

• Water Framework Directive: Model supported Implementation - A Water Manager's Guide edited by Fred Hattermann and Zbigniew W Kundzewicz
• Modelling Aspects of Water Framework Directive Implementation - Volume 1 edited by Peter A. Vanrolleghem
• Integrated Assessment for Water Framework Directive Implementation: Data, Economic and Human dimension - Volume 2 edited by Peter A. Vanrolleghem...