Industrial waste : management, assessment and environmental issues / editor, Stanley N. Barton.

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Preface; Chapter 1; Converting Dilute Acrylic Acid to Ester in Reactive Distillation Column: A New Method to Treat Wastewater Containing Acrylic Acid in Petrochemical Industries; Abstract; Introduction; Methods; Materials; Catalyst Preparations; Catalyst Characterization and Regeneration; Esterification Reaction Study; Kinetic Modeling; Simulation of RDC; Results and Discussion; Catalyst Characterizations; Catalyst Regeneration; Parametric Study of the Esterification Reaction in a Batch Reactor; Effect of Mass Transfer; Effect of Initial Molar Ratio; Effect of Catalyst Loading.

Effect of TemperatureEffect of Initial Water Content; Chemical Equilibrium and Kinetic Study; Simulation Study of RDC; Effect of AA Concentration on TAC of a Single RDC; Determination of the Best Con guration for the Recovery of AA from Dilute AA through Esterification; Conclusion; References; Biographical Sketch; Chapter 2; Nutrient Cycling in Wastewater Treatment Plants by Microalgae-Based Processes; 1Department of Food Science and Technology, ; Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), ; Santa Maria, RS, Brazil; 2School of Chemistry and Food, ; Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG),

Rio Grande, RS, BrazilAbstract; Introduction; Nutrient Cycling; Characteristics of Agroindustrial Pollution; Industrially Consolidated Processes for Wastewater Treatment; Process Intensification Applied to Waste Treatment; Emerging Processes for Industrial Wastewater Treatment; Utilization and Waste Recovery -- Industrial Biorefineries; References; Chapter 3; Shredder Residue: From Waste to Raw Material for Ceramics; Abstract; Introduction; Experimental; Results and Discussion; Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; Chapter 4.

Waste from Orange Juice Industrialization as Potential Biosorbent for Wastewater TreatmentAbstract; 1. Introduction; 2. Materials and Methods; 3. Results and Discussion; 3.1. Physicochemical Characterization of the Washed and Ethanol Treated Orange Peels; 3.2. Textural Characterization of the Washed and Ethanol Treated Orange Peels; 3.3. Morphological Characterization of the Washed and Ethanol Treated Orange Peels; 3.4. Biosorption of the Dyes onto the Ethanol Treated Orange Peels; 3.4.1. Influence of the Solution's pH; 3.4.2. Effect of the Dose of Biosorbent.

3.4.3. Kinetics and Equilibrium Isotherms of Dyes BiosorptionConclusion; Acknowledgment; References; Bibliography; Related Nova Publications; Industrial Waste: Environmental Impact, Disposal and Treatment; Construction Materials Based on Industrial Waste Products; Innovative Sequencing Batch Reactors for Industrial Wastewater Treatment*; Adsorption of Organic and Inorganic Pollutants on Low-Cost Activated Carbon Prepared from Agricultural and Industrial Wastes*

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