Environmental Technologies and Trends : International and Policy Perspectives

This text covers environmental issues related to such subjects as: drinking water; air polution; waste water; hazardous waste; and groundwater, and it focuses on current research activities, emerging technologies and future trends.

1 Introduction.- 2 Drinking Water.- 2.1 Drinking Water Production: Processes and Emerging Technologies.- 2.2 Adsorption of Organic Micropollutants onto Activated Carbon Fibers: Cloth and Felt.- 2.3 Removal of Micropollutants in Some Ozone Contactors: Efficiency and Simulation.- 2.4 Pervaporation and Membrane Stripping: Potentialities on Micropollutants Removal from Water.- 3 Air Pollution.- 3.1 Industrial Air Pollution: Removal of Dilute Gaseous Vapors.- 3.2 Development of Trickle-Bed Air Biofilter.- 3.3 Deodorization in Wastewater Treatment Plants by Wet-Scrubbing on Packed Column and Chlorine Oxidation.- 3.4 Regeneration by Induction Heating of Granular Activated Carbon Loaded with Volatile Organic Compounds.- 4 Wastewater Treatment.- A Biological Treatment.- 4.1 Effect of the Grease Solubilization and the Optimal Process Monitoring on the Grease Aerobic Digestion.- 4.2 Membrane Gas Liquid Contactors in Water and Wastewater Treatment.- 4.3 The Biological Treatment of High Effluent Flowrates: A Review of the Hydrodynamic Conditions and Possibilities.- 4.4 Multiphase Reactors for Biological Treatment of Urban Wastewaters.- B Physical-Chemical Treatment.- 4.5 Physical Chemical Treatments for Wastewater.- 4.6 Hydrocyclone Based Treatment Methods for Oily Wastewaters.- 4.7 Application of Membrane Separation Processes to Oily Wastewater Treatment: Cutting Oil Emulsions.- 4.8 Electrochemical Degradation of Organic Pollutants for Wastewater Treatment: Oxidation of Phenol on PbO2 Anodes.- 4.9 Treatment of Aqueous Organic Wastes by Molecular Oxygen at High Temperature and Pressure: Wet Air Oxidation Process.- 5 Hazardous Waste Management.- 5.1 Hazardous Wastes Treatments.- 5.2 Advanced Method for the Treatment of Organic Aqueous Wastes: Wet Peroxide Oxidation - WPO®, Laboratory Studies and Industrial Development.- 5.3 Heavy Metals Recovery by Electrolyzing Technique: The 3.P.E. Technology.- 5.4 An Overview of Plasma Arc Technology Applied Research Projects for the Vitrification of Hazardous Wastes.- 5.5 Permeable Barriers to Remove Cd and Cr from Groundwater.- 6 Soil and Groundwater Contamination.- 6.1 How Technology is Improving Decision Marking for Environmental Restoration.- 6.2 Soil Decontamination Using Electrokinetics, with Application to Urban Residual Sludges.- 6.3 A Systematic Approach to Groundwater Management.- 7 Environmental Trends and Policy Perspectives.- 7.1 Technology Transfer and Utilization.- 7.2 Environmental Technologies and Regulations.- 7.3 Holistic Approach to Environmental Problems.- 7.4 Environmental Forecasting and Technology Trends.- 7.5 Privatization of the Environmental Infrastructure.- 7.6 Increased Use of Economic Instruments in Environmental Policy.- 7.7 Industry Trends.- 7.8 Industrial Ecology - Going Beyond Pollution Prevention.- 7.9 Summary.