The Role of Colloidal Systems in Environmental Protection

The Role of Colloidal Systems in Environmental Protectiondescribes the importance of colloids in many applications that contribute to environmental protection, including drinking water and wastewater treatment, heavy metal remediation, treatment of radioactive materials, corrosion, and energy conversion. Knowledge of the physical and chemical composition of colloids is important to understand and accurately model the relevant processes. The book familiarizes the reader with the technological features of the application of colloids in environmental protection, and provides chemical engineers, researchers, and scientists in academic and corporate communities with the latest developments in this field. Each chapter covers the whole spectrum of the relevant science, from the fundamentals to applications.

1. Biosolid Colloids as Environmental Contaminant Carriers (J.O. Miller, A.D. Karathanasis) 2. Influence of Natural Organic Matter on Contaminant Removal by Permeable Reactive Barrier (Daniel C.W. Tsang) 3. Role of Microbial Surface-Active Compounds in Environmental Protection (Danka Galabova, Anna Sotirova, Elena Karpenko, Oleksandr Karpenko) 4. Review on the Utilization of Low-cost Substrates to Obtain Metabolites for Protection of the Environment (Ana B. Moldes) 5. Use of Cloud Point Extraction with Ethoxylated Surfactants for Organic Pollution Removal (B. Haddou, J.P. Canselier, C. Gourdon) 6. Adsorption of Synthetic Surfactants from Aqueous Solutions on Natural Adsorbents (Alisa Sineva) 7. Co-Contaminant-Aided Removal of Organics from Produced Water Using Micellar-Enhanced Ultrafiltration (Ali Deriszadeh, Maen M. Husein, Thomas G. Harding) 8. Heavy Metals Uptake from Aqueous Effluents by Novel Adsorbent Derived from Tannin Extracts: Role of Tannin Source (Sanchez-Martin, J. Beltran-Heredia, V. Encinas-Sanchez) 9. The Contribution of the Coagulation Process in Controlling Microbial Risk and Disinfection By-products Formation in Drinking Water (Luigi Rizzo) 10. Coagulation–Flocculation Method for the Treatment of Pulp and Paper Mill Wastewater (Tjoon Tow Teng, Sook San Wong, Ling Wei Low) 11. Arsenic Removal from Water by the Coagulation Process (Shaoxian Song, Marisol Gallegos-Garcia) 12. Optimization and Modeling of Decolorization and COD Reduction of Reactive Dye Solutions by Coagulation Processes with SIWW’s Coagulant (Abdelkader Anouzla, Younes Abrouki, Salah Souabi, Mohamed Safi, Hicham Rhbal) 13. Modified and Nonmodified TiO2 Nanoparticles for Environmental Applications (Vassiliki Belessi, Dimitris Petridis) 14. Groundwater Purification and Soil Remediation Using Carbon Colloids (Rashid A. Khaydarov, Renat R. Khaydarov, O. Gapurova) 15. Quebracho colorado: A New Source for Water Coagulant—Performance on Dye Removal (J. Sanchez-Martin, J. Beltran-Heredia, B. Coco-Rivero) 16. Biosorption of Uranium and Thorium by Biopolymers (C. Gok, S. Aytas) 17. Colloid-Mediated Transport and the Fate of Contaminants in Soils (Maria Gavrilescu) 18. Micellar Solutions to Recover Diesel in Sand (Leticia A. Bernardez, Luiz R.P. de Andrade Lima) 19. Recent Advances on the Use of Surfactant Systems as Inhibitors of Corrosion on Metallic Surfaces (Alcides de Oliveira Wanderley Neto, Tereza Neuma de Castro Dantas, Afonso Avelino Dantas Neto, Alexandre Gurgel) 20. The Role of Corrosion Inhibitors in Protecting Metallic Structures against Corrosion in Harsh Environments (El-Sayed M. Sherif) 21. Petroleum Products Transporting Pipeline Corrosion—A Review (N. Muthukumar) 22. Aerogels in the Environment Protection (D.R. Chen, X.H. Chang, X.L. Jiao) 23. Effective Utilization of Solid Waste from Leather Industry (N. Nishad Fathima, J. Raghava Rao, Balachandran Unni Nair) 24. Applications of Porous Media Combustion Technology (M. Abdul Mujeebu, A.A. Mohamad, M.Z. Abdullah) 25. Colloids in the Environmental Protection—Current and Future Trends (Qaisar Mahmood (TI), Ather Farooq Khan, Afsar Khan)

Chemical engineers; post-graduate students and scientists in colloid, surface, physical and polymer chemistry, and in environmental and materials science working in a wide variety of industries

• Provides the applied technological features of colloids in environmental protection
• Gives insight into the use of bio-solid colloids as contaminant carriers
• Covers the natural occurrence of biosurfactants in the environment and their applications
• Provides information on the use of nanoparticles for environmental applications
• Chapters written by recognized and respected experts in the field from all over the world