With its focus on new developments in innovative and alternative environmental technology, design criteria, effluent standards, managerial decision methodology, and regional and global environmental conservation, this book provides the widest possible coverage drawn from the full spectrum of experts in the field. It covers environmental pollution sources, waste characteristics, control technologies, management strategies, facility innovations, process alternatives, costs, case histories, and effluent standards in industry. Reflecting the depth and breadth of the field, this handbook provides authoritative information on chemical and environmental engineering for industrial hazardous waste treatment.

Characteristics of Industrial Hazardous Wastes. Legislation and Regulations of Industrial Hazardous Wastes.Soil Remediation. Recycling and Disposal of Electrical and Electronic Wastes. Remediation of MTBE and Other Fuel Oxygenates. Remediation of Sites Contaminated by Hazardous Wastes. Enzymatic Treatment of Pentachlorophenol Containing Wastes. Treatment of Landfill Wastes. Alternative ET Landfill Cover. Combined Landfill Leachate Treatment and Bioremediation. Remediation of Sites Contaminated by Underground Storage Tank Releases. Selection and Applications of Phytoremediation. Hazardous Waste Deep-Well Injection. Treatment of Hospital Wastes (optional).

Lawrence K. Wang, Nazih K. Shammas, Yung-Tse Hung