High-Risk Pollutants in Wastewater

High-Risk Pollutants in Wastewater presents the basic knowledge regarding the diversity, concentrations, and health and environmental impacts of HRPs in municipal wastewater. The book summarizes information on the types (e.g. heavy metals, toxic organics and pathogens) and toxicities of HRPs in wastewater. In addition, it describes ecological and health hazards arising from the living things’ direct/indirect contacts with the HRPs during their full lifecycles (generation, disposal, discharge and reuse) in wastewater or water environments. Sections cover the concepts of appropriate technology for HRP hazard/risk assessment and wastewater treatment/reuse and the issues of strategy and policy for increasing risk control coverage.

Finally, the book focuses on the resolution of water quality monitoring, wastewater treatment and disposal problems in both developed and developing countries.

• Presents information on HRPs and their risk assessment and control technologies
• Provides basic knowledge regarding the diversity, concentrations, and health and environmental impacts of HRPs in municipal wastewater
• Summarizes information on the types (e.g. heavy metals, toxic organics and pathogens) and toxicities of HRPs in wastewater

Dr. Xuxiang Zhang serves as a Professor of School of Environment at Nanjing University, China, and the Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, China. Dr. Zhang’s general research interests are in the areas of environmental microbiology, environmental toxicology and water/wastewater treatment technologies. In particular, his current research focuses on the assessment and control of ecological and health risk arising from chemical and biological contamination in water environments. Until now, he has got 107 peer-reviewed papers published in international journals and eight China patents authorized, and won National Awards (class II) for Natural Sciences of China (as the first winner).

Prof. Hongqiang Ren is a Professor and the Dean of the School of Environment at Nanjing University, China. He is also the Director of Yixing Environmental Research Institute of Nanjing University. His research and teaching interest mainly lies in environmental science and engineering. Prof. Ren has been in charge of over 30 national key research projects and published more than 200 research papers in top environmental journals. In addition, he holds more than 100 national and international patents in environmental technology. Prof. Ren is a member of the China Academy of Engineering and has also received numerous other awards, such as Class II of the National Technological Invention Award (4 times), Class II of the National Natural Science Award, Class I of Provincial or Ministerial Technology Awards (6 times), the Scientific and Technology Innovation Award of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation, and the Changjiang Distinguished Professorship.