Waste Treatment in the Service and Utility Industries

This volume provides in-depth coverage of environmental pollution sources, waste characteristics, control technologies, management strategies, facility innovations, process alternatives, costs, case histories, effluent standards, and future trends in the process industries. It delineates methodologies, technologies, and the regional and global effects of important pollution control practices. The authors focus on new developments in innovative and alternative technologies, design criteria, effluent standards, managerial decision methodology, and regional and global environmental conservation specific to process industries.

• Provides technical information on industrial and hazardous waste treatment
• Presents broad coverage of both basic and advanced principals and applications
• Explores the new methods of clean production and waste minimization
• Includes numerous figures, tables, examples and case histories

Preface

Chapter 1 : Safety and Control for Toxic Chemicals and Hazardous Wastes
Chapter 2 : Biological Treatment of Poultry Processing Wastewater
Chapter 3 : Characterization of Treatment of Wastewater in Auto and Other Laundries Industry
Chapter 4 : Waste Treatment and Management in Chlor-Alkali Industries
Chapter 5 : Dissolved Air Floatation (DAF) For Wastewater Treatment
Chapter 6 : Restaurant Waste Treatment and Management
Chapter 7 : Treatment of Textile Industry Waste
Chapter 8 : Bod Determination, Cleaning Solution Preparation and Waste Disposal in Laboratories
Chapter 9 : Principles, Procedure and Heavy Metals Management of Dichromate Reflux Method for COD Determination in Laboratories
Chapter 10 : Treatment and Management of Metal Finishing Industry Wastes
Chapter 11 : Environmental Friendly Activated Carbon Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment
Chapter 12 : Treatment of Wastes from the Organic Chemicals Manufacturing Industry
Chapter 13 : Management, Recycling and Disposal of Electrical and Electronic Wastes (E-Wastes)
Chapter 14 : Treatment of Waster, Storm-Runoff and Combined Sewer Overflow by Dissolved Air Flotation and Filtration

Index