The Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment presents effective, practicable strategies modeled from ultramodern technologies and framed by the critical insights of 78 field experts. This edition has been greatly expanded and updated, and offers a wealth of industry and waste specific analyses and treatment methods for industrial and hazardous waste materials. Coverage includes everything from explosive wastes to landfill leachate, to wastes produced by the pharmaceutical and food industries. Key additional chapters cover means of monitoring waste on site, pollution prevention, and site remediation. 1368 pp.

This state-of-the-art Second Edition is required reading for pollution control, environmental, chemical, civil, sanitary, and industrial engineers; environmental scientists; regulatory health officials; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

The Handbook is a timely evaluation of the role of biotechnology in contemporary industrial waste management. The content reveals sound approaches and sophisticated technologies for treating:

• textile, rubber, and timber wastes
• dairy, meat, and seafood industry wastes
• bakery and soft drink wastes
• palm and olive oil wastes
• pesticide and livestock wastes
• pulp and paper wastes
• phosphate wastes
• detergent wastes
• photographic wastes
• refinery and metal plating wastes
• power industry wastes

Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment, 2nd Edition - Table of Contents:

• Implementation of Industrial Ecology for Industrial Hazardous Waste Management
• Bioassay of Industrial and Hazardous Waste Pollutants
• Treatment of Pharmaceutical Wastes
• Treatment of Oilfield and Refinery Wastes
• Treatment of Photographic Processing Wastes
• Treatment of Soap and Detergent Industry Wastes
• Treatment of Textile Wastes
• Treatment of Pulp and Paper Mill Wastes
• In-Plant Management and Disposal of Industrial Hazardous Substances
• Application of Biotechnology for Industrial Waste Treatment
• Treatment of Dairy Processing Wastewaters
• Seafood Processing Wastewater Treatment
• Treatment of Meat Wastes
• Treatment if Palm Oil Wastewaters
• Olive Oil Waste Treatment
• Potato Wastewater Treatment, Y.-T. Hung
• Storm water Management and Treatment
• Site Remediation and Groundwater Decontamination
• Pollution Prevention, J.P. Chen
• Treatment of Pesticide Industry Wastes
• Livestock Waste Treatment
• Soft Drink Waste Treatment
• Bakery Waste Treatment
• Explosive Waste Treatment
• Food Waste Treatment
• Treatment of Landfill Leachate
• On-Site Monitoring and Analysis of Industrial Pollutants
• Treatment of Rubber Industry Wastes
• Treatment of Timber Industry Wastes
• Treatment of Power Industry Wastes
• Index