Handbook of environment and waste management. Volume 2, Land and groundwater pollution control /

The Handbook of Environment and Waste Management, Volume 2, Land and Groundwater Pollution Control, is a comprehensive compilation of topics that are at the forefront of many of the technical advances and practices in solid waste management and groundwater pollution control. These include biosolids...

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Corporate Authors: World Scientific (Firm)
Group Author: Hung, Yung-Tse (Editor); Wang, Lawrence K. (Editor); Shammas, Nazih K. (Editor)
Published: World Scientific Pub. Co.,
Publisher Address: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. :
Publication Dates: 2014.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/8699#t=toc
Summary: The Handbook of Environment and Waste Management, Volume 2, Land and Groundwater Pollution Control, is a comprehensive compilation of topics that are at the forefront of many of the technical advances and practices in solid waste management and groundwater pollution control. These include biosolids management, landfill for solid waste disposal, landfill liners, beneficial reuse of waste products, municipal solid waste recovery and recycling and groundwater remediation. Internationally recognized authorities in the field of environment and waste management contribute chapters in their areas of expertise. This handbook is an essential source of reference for professionals and researchers in the areas of solid waste management and groundwater pollution control, and as a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in these fields.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xxii,1091pages) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9789814449175
CLC: X52
Contents: 1. Biosolids management / Hamidi Abdul Aziz ... [et al.] -- 2. Sludge management / Duu-Jong Lee ... [et al.] -- 3. Landfill for solid waste disposal / Hamidi Abdul Aziz ... [et al.] -- 4. Landfilling of municipal solid waste in Europe / Witold Stepniewski ... [et al.] -- 5. Liners for waste / Aik Heng Lee, Hamid Nikraz, and Yung-Tse Hung -- 6. Beneficial reuse of waste products / Azza El-Maghraby ... [et al.] -- 7. Reuse of foundry sand as construction materials / An Deng and Yung-Tse Hung -- 8. Stabilization of brown coal fly ash using geopolymers / Linda Zou, Piotr Bankowski, and Yung-Tse Hung -- 9. Municipal solid waste recovery and recycling / Puangrat Kajitvichyanukul and Yung-Tse Hung -- 10. Use of selective recycled materials in civil engineering construction / Mahfooz Soomro and Yung-Tse Hung -- 11. Use of solid wastes as construction materials / Yee-Loon Lee ... [et al.] -- 12. The use of biological methods for toxicity evaluation of wastes and waste-amended soils / Svetlana Yu. Selivanovskaya, Polina Yu. Galitskaya, and Yung-Tse Hung -- 13. Groundwater contamination at landfill site / Hamidi Abdul Aziz ... [et al.] -- 14. Remediation of contaminated groundwater / Teik-Thye Lim, Joo-Hwa Tay, and Yung-Tse Hung -- 15. Environmental monitoring of nearshore dredged material ocean disposal sites / Kok-Leng Tay ... [et al.] -- 16. Radioactive pollution and control / Rehab O. Abdel Rahman, Matthew W. Kozak, and Yung-Tse Hung -- 17. Plastics waste management in India: an integrated solid waste management approach / Tirthankar Banerjee, Rajeev Kumar Srivastava, and Yung-Tse Hung -- 18. Waste sludge management in water utilities / Lawrence K. Wang ... [et al.].