Treatment of micropollutants in water and wastewater /

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Imprint:London [England] : IWA Publishing, 2010.
©2010
Description:1 online resource (501 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Integrated Environmental Technologies series
Integrated environmental technology series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12327184
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Other authors / contributors:Virkutyte, Jurate.
Varma, Rajender S.
Jegatheesan, Veeriah.
ISBN:9781780401447
1780401442
9781680155761
1680155768
1843393166
9781843393160
Notes:Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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Summary:This book will give a comprehensive overview of modern analytical methods and will summarize novel single and hybrid methods to remove continuously emerging contaminants - micropollutants from the aqueous phase. This book will give a comprehensive overview of modern analytical methods and will summarize novel single and hybrid methods to remove continuously emerging contaminants - micropollutants from the aqueous phase.
Other form:Print version: Treatment of micropollutants in water and wastewater. London, [England] : IWA Publishing, ©2010 xvi, 483 pages Integrated environmental technology series. 9781843393160
Table of Contents:
  • 1, Micropollutants and aquatic environment
  • Pesticides
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Surfactants and personal care products
  • Perfluorinated compounds
  • 2. Analytical methods for the identification of micropollutants and their transformation products
  • Theoretical approaches to the analytics of micropollutants
  • Instrumental methods
  • 3. Sensors and biosensors for endocrine disrupting chemicals: state-of-the-art and future trends
  • 4. Nanofiltration membranes and nanofilters
  • Separation and fouling of nanofiltration
  • 5. Physico-chemical treatment of micropollutants: adsorption and ion exchange
  • Inorganic ion-exchangers
  • 6. Physico-chemical treatment of micropollutants: coagulation and membrane ptocesses
  • 7. Biological treatment of micropollutants
  • Municipal sewage as the source of micropollutants
  • Biological treatment of micropollutants
  • 8. UV irradiation for micropollutant removal from aqueous solutions in the presence of H2O2
  • Laboratory scale experiments of UV/H2O2
  • 9. Hybrid advanced oxidation techniques based on cavitation for micropollutants degradation
  • Theory of ultrasound
  • Hybrid cavitation-based technologies
  • Degradation of micropollutants
  • 10. Advanced catalytic oxidation of emerging micropollutants
  • Advanced catalytic oxidation processes for the removal of emerging contaminants from the aqueous phase
  • Advanced nanocatalytic oxidation of micropollutants
  • 11. Existence, impacts, transport and treatments of herbicides in Great Barrier Reef catchments in Australia
  • Peristant organic pollutants
  • Herbicides and pesticides
  • Possible methods of treatment of POPs including herbicides and pesticides from catchment discharges.