Sustainable Heavy Metal Remediation: Volume 2: Case studies

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This book presents an assortment of case-studies pertaining to the use of sustainable technologies for heavy metal removal and recovery from mining and metallurgical wastes, construction and demolition wastes, spent catalysts and electronic wastes. Wastewaters from diverse industrial and mining activities have caused pollution problems, but these sectors also serve as a hotspot for metal recovery. Several metal removal technologies based on physical, chemical and biological processes have been successfully implemented in full-scale operation, while metal recovery, which is beneficial for economic and environmental reasons, is still limited due to challenges arising from downstream processing. For instance, microbial recovery (bioleaching) of metals from their ores is an established technology with a number of full-scale applications. Bioleaching of electronic wastes to recover metals is also a highly promising technology with low environmental impact and high cost-effectiveness; yet, this technology is still at its infancy. As the individual chapters of this book focuses on the applications and limitations of different technologies, this book will serve as an excellent resource for chemical engineers, environmental engineers, mining engineers, biotechnologists, graduate students and researchers in these areas. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Life-Cycle Assessment of Metal Recovery from Electronic Waste (Marco Villares)....Pages 1-23 Adsorption Technology for Removal of Toxic Pollutants (Ansar Anjum)....Pages 25-80 Metal Recovery from Industrial and Mining Wastewaters (Denys Kristalia Villa Gómez, Piet N. L. Lens)....Pages 81-114 Biological Sulphate Reduction (Pimluck Kijjanapanich, Piet N. L. Lens)....Pages 115-132 Lead and Zinc Metallurgical Slags Mineralogy and Weathering (Nang-Htay Yin, Piet N. L. Lens, Yann Sivry, Eric D. van Hullebusch)....Pages 133-160 Leaching and Recovery of Metals (Manivannan Sethurajan, Piet N. L. Lens, Heinrich A. Horn, Luiz H. A. Figueiredo, Eric D. van Hullebusch)....Pages 161-206 Leaching and Recovery of Molybdenum from Spent Catalysts (Mirjana Vemic, Francois Bordas, Gilles Guibaud, Piet N. L. Lens, Eric D. van Hullebusch)....Pages 207-239 Biorecovery of Metals from Electronic Waste (Arda Işıldar, Jack van de Vossenberg, Eldon R. Rene, Eric D. van Hullebusch, Piet N. L. Lens)....Pages 241-278