Air, Gas, and Water Pollution Control Using Industrial and Agricultural Solid Wastes Adsorbents

Air and water pollution occurs when toxic pollutants of varying kinds (organic, inorganic, radioactive and so on) are directly or indirectly discharged into the environment without adequate treatment to remove these potential pollutants. There are a total of 13 book chapters in three sections contributed by significant number of expert authors around the world, aiming to provide scientific knowledge and up-to-date development of various solid wastes based cost-effective adsorbent materials and its sustainable application in the removal of contaminates/pollutants from air, gas and water.

This book is useful for the professions, practicing engineers, scientists, researchers, academics and undergraduate and post-graduate students? interest on this specific area.

Key Features:

? Exclusive compilation of information on use of industrial and agricultural waste based adsorbents for air and water pollution abatement.

? Explores utilization of industrial solid wastes in adsorptive purification and agricultural and agricultural by-products in separation and purification.

? Discusses cost-effective solid wastes based emerging adsorbents.

? Alternative adsorbents in the removal of a wide range of contaminants and pollutants from water is proposed.

? Includes performance of unit operations in waste effluents treatment.

1. Gaseous Pollutant Removal using Solid Wastes Adsorbents. 2 Solid Waste Adsorbents for Volatile Organic Compounds Removal by Biofiltration. 3. CO2 Capture from Industrial Flue Gas: A Review. 4 CO2 Capture by Calcium-Based Industrial Solid Wastes in Calcium Looping Process. 5 Current Progresses on the Removal of Hazardous Pollutants from Water Using Agricultural Wastes. 6 Biosorption of Divalent Heavy Metals by Rice Husk: A Review. 7 Utilization of Red Mud for Environmental Applications. 8 Dolochar as a Low Cost Adsorbent for the Removal of Lead (II) From Aqueous Solution. 9 A Review on Potential Reusability of Industrial Solid Waste as Adsorbent. 10 A Review on Agricultural Solid Waste Materials as Potential Adsorbent for Copper (Cu2+) Ions From Water and Wastewater. 11 Mesoporous Adsorbents from Biomass: Opportunities and Challenges in Hydrothermal Treatment. 12 Sustainable Biochars Derived From Various Agricultural Wastes for Removal of Methylene Green 5 from an Aqueous Solution: Adsorption Kinetics, Isotherms, Thermodynamics and Mechanisms. 13 Impact of Surface Modification of Activated Carbon on BTEX Removal from Aqueous Solutions: A Review

Dr Tushar K Sen is a full time Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Curtin University, Perth Australia. Prior to joining Curtin, he worked at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia and also worked with National Institute of Technology, Rourkela India. Dr Sen obtained his B.Sc. (Hons) B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from University of Calcutta, India and Master of Chemical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, and Mumbai, India. He has over 25 years of teaching and research experience in Chemical Engineering. Dr Sen is continuously engaged in undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and learning, supervision, research activities of the Department of Chemical Engineering. Dr Sen has an excellent track record in the broad field of water research, wastewater treatment, adsorption at solid/liquid interface, anaerobic digestion and dewatering of wastewater sludge, rheology of colloidal slurry/sludge, colloids in groundwater contamination and in the field of separation processes. He has made significant contributions in the field of adsorption in water treatment, anaerobic digestion process and colloid and interface area. He has edited two research books, one on "physical, chemical and biological treatment processes for water and wastewater" and another on "clay minerals". Dr Sen is an Associate Editor of a scholarOne journal "Adsorption Sci. & Technology. He has developed many novel cost effective agricultural solid wastes based adsorbents and biomass based activated carbon, magnetic nanocomposites and their effective utilization in industrial wastewater treatment. Further, Dr Sen and his research group has also developed a novel sludge pre-treatment method which is a combination of microwave and ultra-sonication. Compared to all other pre-treatment methods studied (ultra sonication, microwave), this no