Soil and Sediment Remediation
Soil and Sediment Remediation

Author: Piet Lens

Publisher: IWA Publishing

Published: 2005-09-30

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1843391007

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Soil and Sediment Remediation discusses in detail a whole set of remediative technologies currently available to minimise their impact. Technologies for the treatment of soils and sediments in-situ (landfarming, bioscreens, bioventing, nutrient injection, phytoremediation) and ex-situ (landfarming, bio-heap treatment, soil suspension reactor) will be discussed. The microbiological, process technological and socio-economical aspects of these technologies will be addressed. Special attention will be given to novel biotechnological processes that utilise sulfur cycle conversions, e.g. sulfur and heavy metal removal from soils. Also the potential of phytoremediation will be highlighted. In addition, treatment schemes for the clean-up of polluted megasites, e.g. harbours and Manufactured Gaswork Plants (MGP), will be elaborated. The aim of Soil and Sediment Remediation is to introduce the reader in: the biogeochemical characteristics of soil and sediments- new techniques to study soil/sediment processes (molecular probes, microelectrodes, NMR) clean up technologies for soils polluted with organic (PAH, NAPL, solvents) or inorganic (heavy metals) pollutants- preventative and remediative strategies and technologies available in environmental engineering novel process applications and bioreactor designs for bioremediation the impact of soil pollution on society and its economic importance.

Entrepreneurial Selves
Entrepreneurial Selves

Author: Carla Freeman

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2015-02-15

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0822376008

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Entrepreneurial Selves is an ethnography of neoliberalism. Bridging political economy and affect studies, Carla Freeman turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism. Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent entrepreneurial middle class of Barbados, she finds dramatic reworkings of selfhood, intimacy, labor, and life amid the rumbling effects of political-economic restructuring. She shows us that the déjà vu of neoliberalism, the global hailing of entrepreneurial flexibility and its concomitant project of self-making, can only be grasped through the thickness of cultural specificity where its costs and pleasures are unevenly felt. Freeman theorizes postcolonial neoliberalism by reimagining the Caribbean cultural model of 'reputation-respectability.' This remarkable book will allow readers to see how the material social practices formerly associated with resistance to capitalism (reputation) are being mobilized in ways that sustain neoliberal precepts and, in so doing, re-map class, race, and gender through a new emotional economy.

Sustainable Energy Technologies
Sustainable Energy Technologies

Author: Eduardo Rincón-Mejía

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1351980688

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This book examines the key aspects that will define future sustainable energy systems: energy supply, energy storage, security and limited environmental impacts. It clearly explains the need for an integrated engineering approach to sustainable energies, based on mathematical, biogeophysical, and engineering arguments. Resilient and efficient alternatives are compared to non-sustainable options. This book results from the collaboration of 50 international contributors.

Environmental Nanotechnology
Environmental Nanotechnology

Author: M. H. Fulekar

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-10-30

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1498726259

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Environmental nanotechnology is considered to play a key role in shaping of current environmental engineering and science practices. This book titled "Environmental Nanotechnology" covers the advanced materials, devices, and system development for use in the environmental protection. The development of nano-based materials, understanding their chemistry and characterization using techniques like X- Ray diffraction, FT-IR, EDX, scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM), high resolution-TEM, etc is included. It also highlights the scope for their applications in environmental protection, environmental remediation and environmental biosensors for detection, monitoring and assessment. Key Features: Covers basic to advanced Nano-based materials, their synthesis, development, characterization and applications and all the updated information related to environmental nanotechnology. Discusses implications of nanomaterials on the environment and applications of nanotechnology to protect the environment. Illustrates specific topics such as ethics of nanotechnology development, Nano-biotechnology, and application in wastewater technology. Includes applications of nanomaterials for combating global climate change and carbon sequestration. Gives examples of field applications of environmental nanotechnology. This book covers advanced materials, devices, and system developments for use in environmental protection. The development of nano-based materials, understanding its chemistry and characterization by the use of X-Ray diffraction, FT-IR, EDX, scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM), and high resolution-TEM give the scope for their application in environmental protection, environmental remediation, and environmental biosensors for detection, monitoring, and assessment. The green chemistry based on nano-based materials prevents pollution and controls environmental contaminants.

Treatment of Contaminated Soil
Treatment of Contaminated Soil

Author: Rainer Stegmann

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2001-05-22

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 9783540417361

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The treatment of contaminated soil is a permanently relevant subject for ensuirng the quality of the environment. A wide variety of soils contaminated witht a broad range of harmful chemical compounds all around the the world, call for many different treatment strategies. Research activities focus on affordable methods offering the greatest possible effect, whilst limiting the potential side effects. This book sums up the research activities of Research Centre 188 which has cooperated with the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, the University of Hamburg and GKSS in Geesthacht over the last 12 years, thus greatly advancing our knowledge in this field.

Encounters with Popular Pasts
Encounters with Popular Pasts

Author: Mike Robinson

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9783319131849

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This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage, whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic realities, as well as re-make "tradition". The papers in this volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries or just in reproducing new ones? How do societies manage a heritage that is fluid, immediate and that straddles extremes of serious conflict and hedonistic frivolity? When and under what circumstances is the creation and expression of new cultural forms - popular culture - capable of being transformed into heritage?

Factibilidad Económica y Medio Ambiental del Reciclaje del PET
Factibilidad Económica y Medio Ambiental del Reciclaje del PET

Author: Reneyro Terc

Publisher: Ewe Editorial Acad MIA Espa Ola

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9783659054044

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El reciclaje como proceso de reutilizacion de materiales se ha convertido en las ultimas decadas como una solucion economicamente factible para empresas e industrias alrededor del mundo. Como via de reutilizacion de recursos y como via de reduccion de costos de produccion el reciclaje es el metodo idoneo para industrias y empresas cuya materia prima son derivadas de plasticos, papeles, vidrios, metales y cualquier otro material reutilizable, tal y como puede ser comprobado a continuacion, es un proceso autosostenible que ayuda por sobremanera a la conservacion del medio ambiente y a la concientizacion de los industriales y duenos de empresas para la reutilizacion de los desperdicios. La conservacion del medio ambiente que es vital para la subsistencia de la humanidad y los ecosistemas anadidos a los altos costos de produccion que enfrentan las empresas hacen del reciclaje la opcion ideal."