Handbook of Environment and Waste Management

Volume 2: Land and Groundwater Pollution Control

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology, Engineering, Environmental, Nature, Environment, Natural Resources

• Author: Yung-Tse Hung, Lawrence K Wang, Nazih K Shammas
• ISBN: 9789814449182
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication: December 24, 2013
• Imprint: WSPC
• Language: English

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.

Contents:

• Biosolids Management (Hamidi Abdul Aziz, Nor Habsah Md Sabiani, Miskiah Fadzilah Ghazali, Abu Ahmed Mokammel Haque, and Yung-Tse Hung)
• Sludge Management (Duu-Jong Lee, Joo-Hwa Tay, Yung-Tse Hung, and Ching-Yuan Chang)
• Landfill for Solid Waste Disposal (Hamidi Abdul Aziz, Abu Ahmed Mokammel Haque, Mohd Suffian Yusoff, and Yung-Tse Hung)
• Landfilling of Municipal Solid Waste in Europe (Witold Stepniewski, Malgorzata Pawlowska, Marcin K Widomski, Artur Pawlowski, and Yung-Tse Hung)
• Liners for Waste (Aik Heng Lee, Hamid Nikraz, and Yung-Tse Hung)
• Beneficial Reuse of Waste Products (Azza El-Maghraby, Marwa Farouk Mahmoud El-Kady, Nahla Ahmed Taha, Marwa Awwad Abd El-Hamied, and Yung-Tse Hung)
• Reuse of Foundry Sand as Construction Materials (An Deng and Yung-Tse Hung)
• Stabilisation of Brown Coal Fly Ash Using Geopolymers (Linda Zou, Piotr Bankowski, and Yung-Tse Hung)
• Municipal Solid Waste Recovery and Recycling (Puangrat Kajitvichyanukul and Yung-Tse Hung)
• Use of Selective Recycled Materials in Civil Engineering Construction (Mahfooz Soomro and Yung-Tse Hung)
• Use of Solid Wastes as Construction Materials (Yee-Loon Lee, Heng-Boon Koh, Toong-Hai Sam, David E C Yeoh, Shahabudin bin Mustapa, Che-Fong Pang, and Yung-Tse Hung)
• The Use of Biological Methods for Toxicity Evaluation of Wastes and Waste-Amended Soils (Svetlana Yu Selivanovskaya, Polina Yu Galitskaya, and Yung-Tse Hung)
• Groundwater Contamination at Landfill Site (Hamidi Abdul Aziz, Mohd Shahrir Mohd Zahari, Mohammed J K Bashir, and Yung-Tse Hung)
• Remediation of Contaminated Groundwater (Teik-Thye Lim, Joo-Hwa Tay, and Yung-Tse Hung)
• Environmental Monitoring of Nearshore Dredged Material Ocean Disposal Sites (Kok-Leng Tay, Russell Parrott, Ken Doe, Adrian MacDonald, and Yung-Tse Hung)
• Radioactive Pollution and Control (Rehab O Abdel Rahman, Matthew W Kozak, and Yung-Tse Hung)
• Plastics Waste Management in India: An Integrated Solid Waste Management Approach (Tirthankar Banerjee, Rajeev Kumar Srivastava, and Yung-Tse Hung)
• Waste Sludge Management in Water Utilities (Lawrence K Wang, Mu-Hao S Wang, Nazih K Shammas, and Milos Krofta)

Readership: Students and professionals in solid waste management and groundwater pollution control.
Key Features:

• Comprehensive coverage of solid waste management and groundwater pollution control
• Coverage of basic and advanced principles and applications in the industry
• This book can be used both as a reference or textbook with inclusion of key examples from previous cases