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.