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Life Cycle Assessment of Wastewater Treatment addresses in detail the required in-depth life cycle assessment of wastewater treatment. This is to meet the special demands placed upon wastewater treatment processes, due to both the limited quantity and often low quality of water supplies. Wastewater management clearly plays a central role in achieving future water security in a world where water stress is expected to increase. Life cycle assessment (LCA) can be used as a tool to evaluate the environmental impacts associated with wastewater treatment and potential improvement options. This unique volume will focus on the analysis of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), using a life cycle assessment (LCA) approach.
Key Features:Focuses on the analysis of wastewater treatment plants using a life cycle assessment (LCA) approach
Discusses unconventional water sources such as recycled wastewater, brackish groundwater and desalinated seawater
Explains life cycle assessment in detail, which has become one of the reference methods used to assess the environmental performance of processes over their complete life cycle, from raw material extraction, infrastructure construction and operation to final dismantling
Explores a technique (LCA) that is becoming increasingly popular amongst researchers in the water treatment field nowadays because of its holistic approach
Based on the real life experiences, the subject of wastewater is presented in simple terms and made accessible to anyone willing to learn and experiment
List of contents
Preface
Editor
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Chapter 1 Environmental and Health Effects Due to the Usage of Wastewater
Chapter 2 Ecological Assessment: Use of Hydropower and Biogas Energy in Waste Water Treatment Plants
Chapter 3 Life Cycle Assessment of Municipal Wastewater and Sewage Sludge Treatment
Chapter 4 Life Cycle Assessment of Beneficial Reuse of Waste Streams for Energy in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants
Chapter 5 A Life Cycle Evaluation of the Environmental Effects of a Hydrometallurgical Process for Alkaline Battery Waste Treatment: A Case Study
Chapter 6 Textile Wastewater Treatment by Advanced Oxidation Processes: A Comparative Study
Chapter 7 A Biological Approach for the Removal of Pharmaceutical Pollutants from Wastewater
Chapter 8 Fungal Treatment of Pharmaceuticals in Effluents: Current State, Perspectives, Limitations, and Opportunities
Chapter 9 Determination of Pharmaceutical Compounds in Sewage Sludge from Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants
Chapter 10 Green and Eco-Friendly Materials for the Removal of Phosphorus from Wastewater
Chapter 11 Technologies for the Treatment of Heavy Metal-Contaminated Groundwater
Chapter 12 Life Cycle Assessment Applied to Support Sustainable Wastewater Treatment in Developing Countries
Chapter 13 Life Cycle Analysis of Anaerobic Digestion of Wastewater Treatment Plants
Index
About the author
Dr. Mu. Naushad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University (KSU), Saudi Arabia. Prior to coming to King Saud University, he was the Assistant Professor at SRM University, India. He obtained his Ph.D Degree in Analytical Chemistry, from A.M.U. Aligarh, India in 2007. His research interests include Nanocomposite materials and wastewater treatment. He has over 200 refereed publications, with a Google Scholar H-Index of >33. He holds five US patents deriving from his research. He is the Editor/Editorial member of several reputed Journals like Scientific Report, Process Safety & Env. Protection and J. Water Process Eng. He is also the Associate Editor for Env. Chem. Letters Journal, Springer. He has been awarded by the Scientist of the year award-2015 from National Environmental Science Academy, India and Almarai Award-2017 from Saudi Arabia.
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Life Cycle Assessment of Wastewater Treatment addresses in detail the required in-depth life cycle assessment of wastewater treatment.
