Handbook of Advanced Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Management PDF

Preface

Environmental managers, engineers, and scientists who have had experience with industrial and hazardous waste management problems have noted the need for a handbook series that is comprehensive in its scope, directly applicable to daily waste management problems of specific industries, and widely acceptable by practicing environmental professionals and educators.

Many standard industrial waste treatment and hazardous waste management texts adequately cover a few major industries, for conventional in-plant pollution control strategies, but no one book, or series of books, focuses on new developments in innovative and alternative environmental technology, design criteria, effluent standards, managerial decision methodology, and regional and global environmental conservation.

In 2004, CRC Press published its First Handbook in the handbook series, Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment. That First Handbook emphasized (1) in-depth presentation of environmental pollution sources, waste characteristics, control technologies, management strategies, facility innovations, process alternatives, costs, case histories, effluent standards, and future trends for each industrial or commercial operation (such as pharmaceutical industry, oil refineries, metal plating and finishing industry, photographic processing industry, soap and detergent industry, textile industry, phosphate industry, pulp and paper mills, dairies, sea food processing factories, meat processing plants, olive oil processing plants, potato production operations, pesticide industry, livestock industry, soft drink factories, explosive chemical plants, rubber industry, timber industry, and power industry) and (2) in-depth presentation of methodologies, technologies, alternatives, regional effects, and global effects of each important industrial pollution control practice that may be applied to all industries (such as industrial ecology, pollution prevention, in-plant hazardous waste management, site remediation, groundwater decontamination, and stormwater management).

In 2010, CRC Press published its Second Handbook in the handbook series, Handbook of Advanced Industrial and Hazardous Waste Treatment. That Second Handbook emphasized a different in-depth presentation of waste minimization, cleaner production, legislation and regulations for hazardous wastes, hazardous industrial wastes characteristics, soil remediation, brownfield sites restoration, bioremediation, enzymatic process, underground storage tank releases, biological treatment processes, deep well injection, methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), fuel oxygenates, evapotranspiration, landfill cover, hazardous leachate treatment, secondary flotation, solid waste treatment, etc. The 2010 Second Handbook also gives in-depth presentation of hazardous industrial treatment and management technologies used in many new industries or operations that are not covered in the previous 2004 First Handbook, such as, aluminum forming industry, coil coating industry, nickel-chromium plating plants, porcelain enameling industry, pentachlorophenol processing facilities, pulp and paper industry, and inorganic chemical industry. Many industries are covered for the very first time.

In a deliberate effort to complement both the 2004 First Handbook and the 2010 Second Handbook as well as other industrial waste treatment and hazardous waste management texts, this 2018 Handbook of Advanced Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Management (i.e., the Third Handbook), covers many new advances in the field of industrial and hazardous waste treatment, such as the toxicity, sources and/or control of various heavy metals (copper, zinc, molybdenum, barium, arsenic, silver, selenium, nickel, beryllium, chromium, cadmium, mercury, lead, etc.) and rare metals in the environment; applications of nanotechnology for bioremediation; remediation of heavy metal-contaminated soil; removal of heavy metals by low-cost adsorbents; stabilization of cadmium in waste incineration residues by aluminum/iron-rich materials; treatment of metal wastes by sulfide precipitation; simultaneous removal of chromium and arsenate; environmental and health impacts of e-waste disposal and recycling; site assessment and cleanup technologies of metal finishing industry; adsorptive removal of arsenic from water sources using novel nano-composite mixed matrix membranes; treatment and management of photographic processing wastes, poultry processing wastes, storm-runoff, combined sewer overflows, chlor-alkali industrial wastes, restaurant wastes, textile wastes, organic chemicals manufacturing wastes, and laboratory wastes; recycling of filter backwash water and alum sludge from water utility for reuse; safety and control for toxic chemicals and hazardous wastes; industrial water and wastewater treatment using dissolved air flotation, activated carbon adsorption, nanotechnology, granular sludge biosorption, exopolysaccharide-producing cyano-bacterial process, etc.; and control, treatment, and management of metal emissions from motor vehicles.

Special efforts were made to invite experts to contribute chapters in their own areas of expertise. Since the field of industrial hazardous waste treatment is very broad, no one can claim to be an expert in all industries; collective contributions are better than a single author’s presentation for a handbook of this nature.

This 2018 Handbook of Advanced Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Management, is a collection of the existing chapters from three small CRC Press books: (1) Heavy Metals in the Environment, (2) Remediation of Heavy Metals in the Environment, and (3) Waste Treatment in the Service and Utility Industries. The publisher prints this 2018 Handbook as well as its two accompanying handbooks (the 2004 Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment, and the 2010 Handbook of Advanced Industrial Hazardous Wastes Treatment) in very small quantities mainly for the university library collection worldwide. Three handbooks together (2004, 2010, and 2018) form a complete set of reference handbooks for the environmental professionals. They feature the major industries and hazardous pollutants that have significant effects on the environment. Professors, students, and researchers in environmental, civil, chemical, sanitary, mechanical, and public health engineering and science will find valuable educational materials here. The extensive bibliographies for each industrial waste treatment or management should be invaluable to environmental managers or researchers who need to trace, follow, duplicate, or improve on a specific industrial hazardous waste treatment practice.

A successful modern hazardous industrial waste treatment and management program for a particular industry will include not only traditional water pollution control but also air pollution control, noise control, soil conservation, site remediation, radiation protection, groundwater protection, hazardous waste management, solid waste disposal, and combined industrial–municipal waste treatment and management. In fact, it should be a total environmental control program. Another intention of this handbook series is to provide technical and economical information on the development of the most feasible total environmental control program that can benefit both industry and local municipalities. Frequently, the most economically feasible methodology is a combined industrial– municipal waste treatment and management.

Authors: Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao S. Wang, Yung-Tse Hung, Nazih K. Shammas, Jiaping Paul Chen