Resource Recovery in Drinking Water Treatment

This 3-volume set stresses the importance of contaminated waters remediation, including surface waters, municipal or industrial wastewaters, and treats these waters as a new source of nutrients, minerals, and energy. It introduces polluted waters as new and sustainable sources, rather than seeing wastewaters only a source of hazardous organic and inorganic matters. The volumes discuss wastewater treatment and wastewater recovery and contribute to generate a sustainable approach of wastewater by providing the main advantages and disadvantages of both wastewater/polluted water treatment and recovery. Resource Recovery in Drinking Water Treatment concentrates on techniques and methods for water purification. It develops a new approach, resource recovery, toward drinking water. In here, the role of methods (adsorption, membrane, ion – exchange, biosorption, coagulation, etc.) and nanocomposites (such as biochar, sludge-based composites, chitosan, polymer, magnetic particles, etc.) in water resource recovery is investigated. The volume provides an in-depth overview on emerging water treatment techniques and the resource recovery of materials during treatment process. Presents novel approaches to recover materials from water during treatment Discusses fundamentals and principals of water treatment to figure out the current status and the need of development Includes application of various composites and particles in water treatment and water recovery