Environmental Separation of Heavy Metals

A comprehensive methods book, this text explains advanced and emerging technologies for removing heavy metals from wastestreams and contaminated sites. After explaining the chemistry of heavy metals and their transport in various media, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of strategies for separating metals from groundwater, wastewater, contaminated soils, and industrial sludges. Both the basics and the applications of techniques such as ion-exchange, specialized sorbents, novel membranes, advanced precipitates, and electrokinetic processes are presented with a view to current use and potential for future applications such as resource reuse.