Wastewater Resource Recovery And Biological Methods

So, through this book, we try to produce the content and information to give the audience an understanding of the waste water as one of the environmental and health issues and mitigation strategies. Very little is being done to manage the liquid part of the waste or what we call the wastewater. In the present scenario, energy crisis is also one of the issues that we are facing particularly in context with the thermal power plants which are environmentally highly polluting. Waste menace is one of the most voiced and unsolved problems in the entire world. Given the international scenario, the chapters of this book are designed to include both anaerobic and aerobic methods of resource recovery from the industrial wastewater. The book is a step toward design with nature and the concept of green chemistry. The whole world is facing the threat of water pollution, soil pollution/ land pollution, odour pollution from the growing waste. The uniqueness also lies in exploring the concepts of converting waste into resources in the form of bioenergy, biofertilizers through various biological methods. The book gives a sufficient understanding of how waste can be turned into a resource. The book is unique in highlighting the issue of wastewater as one of the important environmental issues. The biological treatment methods like sludge treatment gives the farmers the source of biofertilizers and organic manure for the plants. Through various techniques like microbial fuel cells or biohydrogen, we get a source of cleaner energy. Though we find many missions and programs at international, national, and regional level to solve the waste associated issues, this is mostly in context with the solid fraction of the waste. The conversion of wastewater has the potential to be converted to energy in the form bioenergy, bio-fertilizers, electricity, nutrient recovery, etc. The use of sludge as biofertilizers solves the problem of sludge management on the one hand and production of organic crops on the other.

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Wastewater Resource Recovery And Biological Methods