Advances in Water Treatment and Pollution Prevention (Hardcover, 2012)

GREEN PRACTICES TO SAVE OUR PRECIOUS 'WATER RESOURCE' (Sanjay K. Sharma, Rashmi Sanghi and Ackmez Mudhoo).- WATER PATHWAYS THROUGH THE AGES: FROM EARLY AQUEDUCTS TO NEXT GENERATION OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS (Giusy Lofrano, Jeanette Brown and Giovanni De Feo).- THE REMOVAL OF ILLICIT DRUGS AND METABOLITES DURING WASTEWATER AND DRINKING WATER TREATMENT (Alexander L.N. van Nuijs and Adrian Covaci).- REMOVAL OF DYES AND PIGMENTS FROM INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS (Tjoon Tow Teng, Ling Wei Low).- HEAVY METAL REMOVAL THROUGH BIOSORPTIVE PATHWAYS (Jinsheng sun, Yulan Ji, Fang Cai, Jing Li).- MESOPOROUS-ASSEMBLED NANOCRYSTAL PHOTOCATALYSTS FOR DEGRADATION OF AZO DYES (Thammanoon Sreethawong) MICROWAVE-ASSISTED ORGANIC POLLUTANTS DEGRADATION (Ackmez Mudhoo).- DIRECT FLOCCULATION PROCESS FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT (Mei Fong Chong).- COMBINED MACROMOLECULAR ADSORPTION AND COAGULATION FOR IMPROVEMENT OF MEMBRANE SEPARATION IN WATER TREATMENT (Mohammed Al-Abri, Chedly Tizaoui and Nidal Hilal).- HYBRID SONOCHEMICAL TREATMENT OF CONTAMINATED WASTEWATER: SONOPHOTOCHEMICAL AND SONOELECTROCHEMICAL APPROACHES. PART I: DESCRIPTION OF THE TECHNIQUES (B. Neppolian, M. Ashokkumar, I. Tudela, J. Gonzalez-Garcia).- HYBRID SONOCHEMICAL TREATMENTS OF WASTEWATER: SONOPHOTOCHEMICAL AND SONOELECTROCHEMICAL APPROACHES. PART II: SONOPHOTOCATALYTIC AND SONOELECTROCHEMICAL DEGRADATION OF ORGANIC POLLUTANTS (B. Neppolian, M. Ashokkumar, V. Saez, M.D. Esclapez and P. Bonete).- NATURE IS THE ANSWER: WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT BY NEW NATURAL-BASED AGENTS (Jesus Sanchez-Martin and Jesus Beltran-Heredia).- POLYSACCHARIDE-BASED MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS FOR DECOLORISATION OF TEXTILE EFFLUENTS (Vandana Singh, Tulika Malviya, Rashmi Sanghi).- WASTEWATER TREATMENT WITH CONCOMITANT BIOENERGY PRODUCTION USING MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS (Liping Huang, Shaoan Cheng, Daniel J. Hassett, and Tingyue Gu).