Integrated Natural Resources Research, 1st ed. 2021 Handbook of Environmental Engineering Series, Vol. 22

This book is a sister volume to Volume 20 of the Handbook of Environmental Engineering Series, "Integrated Natural Resources Management", and expands on the themes of that volume by addressing the conservation and protection of natural resources in an environmental engineering context through state-of-the-art research methodologies and technologies. With a focus on water and wastewater treatment, the book takes a multidisciplinary approach to provide readers with an understanding of developments in natural resources technology over the last few decades, and how technology and industry methods will progress to ensure cleaner and sustainable methods of natural resources management. The key topics covered include biological activated carbon treatment for recycling biotreated wastewater, composting for food processing wastes, treatment of wastewater from chemical industries, agricultural waste as a low-cost adsorbent, and the invention, design and constructionof potable water dissolved air flotation and filtration plants. The book will be useful to environmental resources engineers, researchers, water treatment plant managers, chemical engineers,  industrial plant managers, and environmental conservation agencies. 

Chapter1. Fenton oxidation and biological activated carbon treatment for recycling biotreated coking plant wastewater.- Chapter2. Composting for food processing wastes.- Chapter3. Treatment of wastewaters from chemical industries.- Chapter4. Agricultural waste as a low-cost adsorbent.- Chapter5. Waste vegetable oils, fats and cooking oils in biodiesel production.- Chapter6. Wastewater treatment by chemical coagulation, precipitation , sedimentation and flotation.- Chapter7. Water quality control of tidal rivers and estuaries.- Chapter8. First wave of flotation technology evolution: once the world's largest daf-filtration plant and its hydroelectric facility.- Chapter9. Cationic surfactant analysis with good laboratory practice and waste management.- Chapter10. Treatment of laundromat wastewater by physicochemical and flotation processes.- Chapter11. Book review.- Chapter12. Glossary of water quality, treatment and recovery.

Lawrence K. Wang has 30+ years of experience in natural resources, environmental education, process invention, technology transfer, facility design,  and plant construction.  He was a professor/dean/Acting President of the Lenox Institute of Water Technology, USA,  an assistant professor/associate professor/professor of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stevens Institute of Technology, and the University of Illinois, respectively, USA, a visiting professor of National Cheng-Kung University, ROC, Zhejiang University and Tongji University, PRC, and a Senior Advisor of the United Nations Industrial and Development Organization (UNIDO), Vienna, Austria.  Dr. Wang is the author of 700+ papers and 50+ books, and is credited with 24 U.S. patents and 5 foreign patents. He received his BSCE degree from National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, ROC, his two MS degrees from the University of Missouri and the University of Rhode Island, USA,and his PhD degree from Rutgers University, USA. Currently he is the Chief Series Editor of the Advances in Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment series (CRC Press), the Handbook of Environmental Engineering series (Springer), the Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics series (Lenox Institute Press), and the Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics series (Lenox Institute Press).  He is also the Coeditor of the Handbook of Environment and Waste Management series (World Scientific), and the coauthor of the Water and Wastewater Engineering series (John Wiley).  He has been a member of AWWA, WEF, AIChE, ACS, AEESP, CIE, OCEESA, NYWEA, NEWEA, NEWWA, etc.

Mu-Hao Sung Wang has been an engineer, an editor and a professor serving private firms, governments, and universities in the USA and Taiwan forove