Remediation of Heavy Metals Sustainable Technologies and Recent Advances

Meet the challenge of contaminated soil with a range of sustainable tools

The remediation of soils which have been polluted by trace metals is an increasingly significant environmental challenge in an industrialized global economy. The ongoing revolution in green technologies, however, has seen a range of sustainable methods emerge for remediating soils, water, and other aspects of the environment polluted by trace metals. By putting them into practice, environmental researchers and industrial professionals will be able to improve soil and groundwater quality and public health globally.

Remediation of Heavy Metals offers a clear, accessible reference on these methods and their applications. It offers an overview of the major effects of heavy metal contamination and works through each of the methods or protocols available to remediate soil and minimize pollution at the source.

Remediation of Heavy Metals readers will also find:

• Comparison of different absorption materials for heavy metal removal
• Detailed discussion of physical, chemical, and biological remediation methods
• Case studies demonstrating proper remediation

Remediation of Heavy Metals provides key knowledge for environmental scientists, environmental toxicologists, and other researchers or industrial professionals working in soil remediation, as well as advanced graduate students in these areas.

Rangabhashiyam Selvasembian, PhD, is a faculty member in the School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, India.

Binota Thokchom, PhD, is a DST-Inspire faculty member at the Centre of Nanotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India.

Pardeep Singh, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, PGDAV College University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.

Ali H. Jawad, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

Willis Gwenzi, PhD, is Associate Professor in Biosystems and Environmental Engineering, University of Zimbabwe, South Africa.

1. Release, Detection, and Toxicology of Heavy Metals: a Review of the Main Techniques and Their Limitations in Environmental Remediation

2. Heavy Metals Contamination in the Environment

3. A Brief Study of the Effects of Heavy Metals and Metalloids on Food Crops

4. Impact of Heavy Metals on Human Health

5. Different Approaches for Detecting Heavy Metal Ions

6. Chemical Approaches to Remediate Heavy Metals

7. Carbon-based Absorption Materials for Heavy Metal Removal

8. Industrial Waste-derived Materials for Adsorption of Heavy Metals from Polluted Water

9. Biological Remediation of Heavy Metals from Acid Mine Drainage

10. Phytoremediation and Microbe-assisted Removal of Heavy Metals

11. Recycling and Disposal of Spent Metal(loid)-laden Adsorbents

12. Remediation of Heavy Metals in Environmental Resources Using Physical Methods

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