Waste management:research advances to convert waste to wealth

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Haghi A. K.
Published: Nova Science Publishers,
Publisher Address: New York ,N.Y.:
Publication Dates: c2011.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Waste and waste management
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Carrier Form: vi, 244 p.: ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 9781621001799 (pbk.)
1621001792
Index Number: X705
CLC: X705
Call Number: X705/W323-4
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Converting waste to energy via thermal, biological and mechanical processing in developing Western settings: an analysis based on cases from England, Greece and the United States / Avraam Karagiannidis ... [et al.] -- Municipal solid waste: character and composition / Libuse Benesova ... [et al.] -- Waste biomass supply chains for energy production: a hierarchical decision-making framework / E. Iakov, D. Vlachos and A. Toka -- Waste picking at landfills: a source of livelihood or interference with waste disposal processes? / Benjamin Bolaane -- Simultaneous solution for solid waste management and waste water treatment: Cr(VI) removal as a case study / Suresh Gupta and B.V. Babu -- Can waste-to-energy of as-received or pre-processed (RDF/SRF) municipal solid wastes support the electricity generation sector? EU experience and a case study with two different scenarios for Greece / C.S. Psomopoulos -- The use of industrial waste for the production of new blended cement / M.C. Bignozzi -- Olive mill wastewater: treatments and valorisation / Manuela Taccari and Maurizio Ciani -- Methodological approaches for assessing human health risks of waste management plants. Experiences from Catalonia (Spain) / Marti Nadal and Jose L. Domingo.