Jar Tests for Water Treatment Optimisation: How to Perform Jar Tests – a handbook
The book is intended as a handbook providing detailed instructions for the correct conducting of jar tests, which are needed for the optimisation of the coagulation/flocculation process. It...
Environmental Technologies to Treat Rare Earth Element Pollution
Rare earth elements (REE) have applications in various modern technologies, e.g., semiconductors, mobile phones, magnets. They are categorized as critical raw materials due to their strategic...
Pathways to Water Sector Decarbonization, Carbon Capture and Utilization
The water sector is in the middle of a paradigm shift from focusing on treatment and meeting discharge permit limits to integrated operation that also enables a circular water economy via water...
Resource Recovery from Water: Principles and Application
Throughout history, the first and foremost role of urban water management has been the protection human health and the local aquatic environment. To this end, the practice of (waste-)water...
Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of water and sanitation services: Overview of emissions and their potential reduction illustrated by the know-how of utilities
The scientific evidence contained in the three volumes of the 6th IPCC report (AR6), published between August 2021 and April 2022, are another reminder of the urgent need to respect the 2015 Paris...
SARS-CoV-2 in Water
This book brings together cutting-edge studies and reviews on the water-related health aspects of SARS-CoV-2, contributed by our research community. The contributions are related to the potential...
Hospital Wastewater Treatment: Global scenario and case studies
The features of hospital wastewater (HWW) are identical to domestic wastewater in general, but a subset of HWW includes toxic/nonbiodegradable/infectious contaminants. The hospital effluents...
CFD Modelling for Wastewater Treatment Processes
This Scientific and Technical Report (STR) provides in-depth fundamentals and guidelines regarding Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of Water Resources Recovery Facilities (WRRFs)...
Pathways to Water Sector Decarbonization, Carbon Capture and Utilization
The water sector is in the middle of a paradigm shift from focusing on treatment and meeting discharge permit limits to integrated operation that also enables a circular water economy via water...
Land Use and Water Quality: The impacts of diffuse pollution
The influence of landscapes – topography, soil, vegetation, geology - on water quality is an inherent part of the global water cycle. Land use has adverse impacts for example when soils are...
Quantification and Modelling of Fugitive Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Urban Water Systems
With increased commitment from the international community to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from all sectors in accordance with the Paris Agreement, the water sector has never felt the...
Water Recycling and Low-Carbon Development
This book deals with various problems and investigates different treatment technologies concerning water reuse. In response to the challenges of severe water shortages and the deterioration of...