Table of Contents
1 Cover
4 Preface
5 1 Introduction 1.1 Opening Remarks 1.2 Climate-Water-Food Nexus 1.3 Background 1.4 Insufficiency in Water Purification Processes 1.5 Introduction to Zero Waste Engineering 1.6 Scope of the Book 1.7 Organization and Introduction of the Chapters
6 2 Water Science 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Unique Features of Water 2.3 Natural State of Matter 2.4 Source of Water and Its Role in Sustaining Life
7 3 Sustainability of Current Water Purification Technologies 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Sustainability Criteria 3.3 Sustainability in the Information Age and Environmental Insult 3.4 Biological Processes 3.5 Chemical Precipitation 3.6 Membrane Separation 3.7 Ion Exchange 3.8 Ozonation 3.9 UV Radiation 3.10 Adsorption
8 4 Sustainable Drinking Water Purification Techniques 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Natural Lifestyle 4.3 Natural Minerals 4.4 Solar UV Treatment 4.5 Natural Ozonation
9 5 Sustainable Purification Techniques for Agricultural Waters 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Organic vs. Chemical Agricultural Practices 5.3 Removal of Heavy Metals 5.4 Removal of Heavy Metals Using Fish Scale 5.5 Solar UV Treatment 5.6 Bioremediation for Sustainable Purification of Water
10 6 Sustainable Purification Techniques for Industrial Wastes 6.1 Removal of Radionuclides 6.2 Removal of Heavy Metals Precious Metals 6.3 Industry Lifestyle Change 6.4 The Energy/Water Crisis 6.5 Certain Sustainable Technologies
11 7 Summary and Conclusions 7.1 Summary 7.2 Conclusions
12 References and Bibliography
13 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 1Table 1.1 The tangible and intangible nature of yin and yang (From Islam, 201...Table 1.2 Synergies between water and sustainable growth (modified from UN Wa...
2 Chapter 2Table 2.1 H2O is more cohesive than H2S, despite their similar structures, be...Table 2.2 Unique properties of water.Table 2.3 Thermal properties of ice (Website 1).Table 2.4 Vapour pressure ice.Table 2.5 Typical features of natural processes as compared to the claims of ...Table 2.6 True difference between sustainable and unsustainable processes.Table 2.7 Features of external entity (from Islam, 2014).Table 2.8 Inorganic contaminants found in groundwater.Table 2.9 Organic contaminants found in groundwater.Table 2.10 List of infectious agents potentially present in drinking water co...Table 2.11 Some major threats to groundwater*.
3 Chapter 3Table 3.1 Classification of source water, according to quantity of dissolved ...Table 3.2 List of spurious assumptions behind major UN findings.Table 3.3 Common ionic constituents contained in water (Nicholas P.C., 2002).Table 3.4 Select physical properties of ozone are listed.
4 Chapter 4Table 4.1 Complete description of the 5-element theory as applied in human ph...Table 4.2 Various leading causes of death to vital organs that govern the rel...
5 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Land use for various income growth.Table 5.2 Land use for various country classifications.Table 5.3 Transitions from natural to processed.Table 5.4 Sugar consumption for various regions/countries (from Islamet al., ...Table 5.5 The Langmuir adsorption isotherm parameters and equation for adsorp...Table 5.6 Use of separation parameter,RL in getting information about the nat...Table 5.7 The Freundlich adsorption isotherm parameters and equation for adso...
6 Chapter 6Table 6.1 Sources of metals and heavy metals.Table 6.2 Classification of the procedures use by Al-Razi in book of secrets.Table 6.3 Mercury contents after cinnabar and HgCl2 administration for 10 day...Table 6.4 Mercury contents after cinnabar and HgS administration for 10 days ...Table 6.5 Abundance number for various elements present in the universe (from...Table 6.6 Per capita energy consumption (in TOE) for certain countries (From ...Table 6.7 Chemical composition of orange peel adsorbent by X-ray fluorescence...Table 6.8 Chemical and physical properties of banana peel used in the experim...Table 6.9 Physico-chemical characteristics of JPC. (From Bhatnagaret al., 201...Table 6.10 The percentages of main