Industrial solid wastes / A.D. Patwardhan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patwardhan, A. D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Factory and trade waste--India.

Factory and trade waste.

Waste products--India.

Waste products.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India : The Energy and Resources Institute, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Industrial solid wastes, unlike liquid effluents and gaseous emissions, receive relatively less attention in terms of treatment, reuse, recycle, and recovery of useful by-products. These solid wastes have great potential for recovery and reuse. _x000D__x000D_Predominantly organic wastes can be effectively treated by biological means to yield useful end products like methane gas as fuel and digested slurry as soil conditioner._x000D__x000D_Inert materials like plastics are effectively blended with other building materials, thereby improving the quality of the finished product and at least partially solving the problem of disposal of plastics. Inorganic wastes are excellent candidates for recovery of reusable building materials like sand and fine aggregate. Recycling of useful components from e-wastes goes a long way in reducing environmental pollution by toxic and hazardous wastes._x000D__x000D_This book places before the reader different ways and means used by scientists and engineers to minimize pollution of our natural resources and their overexploitation.

Contents:

section 1. Organic industrial solids

section 2. Inorganic industrial solids

section 3. Treatment plant sludges.

Notes:

Includes statistical tables.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4619-4001-X