Waste management
Subtitle: research advances to convert waste to wealth
By: A.K. Haghi, editor
Series: Waste and waste management; Waste and waste management series
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781621001799
Subjects: Waste disposal sites; Recycling (Waste, etc.); Refuse as fuel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Converting waste to energy via thermal, biological and mechanical processing in developing Western settings: an analysis based on cases from England, Greece and the United States / Avraam Karagiannidis ... [et al.]; title: Municipal solid waste: character and composition / Libuše Benešová ... [et al.]; title: Waste biomass supply chains for energy production: a hierarchical decision-making framework / E. Iakov, D. Vlachos and A. Toka; title: Waste picking at landfills: a source of livelihood or interference with waste disposal processes? / Benjamin Bolaane; title: Simultaneous solution for solid waste management and waste water treatment: Cr(VI) removal as a case study / Suresh Gupta and B.V. Babu; title: Can waste-to-energy of as-received or pre-processed (RDF/SRF) municipal solid wastes support the electricity generation sector? EU experience and a case study with two different scenarios for Greece / C.S. Psomopoulos; title: The use of industrial waste for the production of new blended cement / M.C. Bignozzi; title: Olive mill wastewater: treatments and valorisation / Manuela Taccari and Maurizio Ciani; title: Methodological approaches for assessing human health risks of waste management plants. Experiences from Catalonia (Spain) / Martí Nadal and José L. Domingo.