Solid Waste Treatment and Resource Recovery

Author: Li Guoxue
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This book is completed based on the author's many years of experience in teaching, research, and practice of solid waste. It provides a detailed elaboration on the sources, types, properties, and measurement methods of solid waste emitted by industries, agriculture, animal husbandry, municipal services, and other sectors. It introduces the characteristics and hazards of hazardous waste. It systematically describes pretreatment methods such as collection, transportation, and compaction of solid waste; crushing and sorting; concentration and dehydration of high-moisture materials; solidification and construction material conversion of solid waste. It also covers treatment technologies for organic solid waste, including pyrolysis, incineration, microbial feed production, composting, ethanol fermentation, and biogas fermentation. Additionally, it elaborates on final disposal technologies for solid waste and conducts an in-depth discussion on the benefit analysis and economic evaluation of solid waste treatment projects. This book is a highly informative, systematic, and practical undergraduate textbook and reference book for research. It can serve as a textbook for undergraduate students in environmental science and environmental engineering programs in higher (agricultural) institutions and is also suitable for professionals engaged in environmental protection, environmental sanitation, and engineering design to read and reference.