Description
Book SynopsisThe four volumes of the book series Engineering Tools for Environmental Risk Management deal with environmental management, assessment & monitoring tools, environmental toxicology and risk reduction technologies. This last volume focuses on engineering solutions usually needed for industrial contaminated sites, where natureâs self-remediation is inefficient or too slow. The success of remediation depends on the selection of an increasing number of conventional and innovative methods. This volume classifies the remedial technologies and describes the reactor approach to understand and manage in situ technologies similarly to reactor-based technologies. Technology types include physicochemical, biological or ecological solutions, where near-natural, sustainable remediation has priority.
A special chapter is devoted to natural attenuation, where natural changes can help achieve clean-up objectives. Natural attenuation and biological and ecological remediation establish a serial range of technologies from monitoring only to fully controlled interventions, using â justâ the natural ecosystem or sophisticated artificial living systems. Passive artificial ecosystems and biodegradation-based remediation â in addition to natural attenuation â demonstrate the use of these âgreenâ technologies and how engineering intervention should be kept at a minimum to limit damage to the environment and create a harmonious ecosystem.
Remediation of sites contaminated with organic substances is analyzed in detail including biological and physicochemical methods.
Comprehensive management of pollution by inorganic contaminants from the mining industry, leaching and bioleaching and acid mine drainage is studied in general and specifically in the case of an abandoned mine in Hungary where the innovative technology of combined chemical and phytostabilization has been applied.
The series of technologies is completed by electrochemical remediation and nanotechnologies.
Monitoring, verification and sustainability analysis of remediation provide a comprehensive overview of the management aspect of environmental risk reduction by remediation.
This book series focuses on the state of knowledge about the environment and its conscious and structured application in environmental engineering, management and decision making.
Table of Contents1. Contaminated site remediation, role and classification of technologies
2. In situ soil remediation – the reactor approach
3. Natural attenuation in contaminated soil remediation
4. Ecoengineering tools – passive artificial ecosystems
5. Biodegradation-based remediation – overview and case studies
6. Traditional and innovative methods for physical and chemical remediation of soil contaminated by organic matter
7. Leaching, bioleaching and acid mine drainage: case study
8. Remediation technologies for metal-contaminated soil and sediment – an overview and a case study of combined chemical and phytostabilization
9. Electrochemical remediation for contaminated soil, sediments and groundwater
10. Elemental iron and other nanotechnologies for soil remediation
11. Planning, monitoring, verification and sustainability of soil remediation
