Industrial and Municipal Sludge

Emerging Concerns and Scope for Resource Recovery

Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad, Paulo Jorge de Campos Favas, Meththika Vithanage, S.Venkata Mohan
Elsevier
856 pages
ISBN: 9780128159071
April 2019

Industrial and Municipal Sludge: Emerging Concerns and Scope for Resource Recovery begins with a characterization of the types of sludge and their sources and management strategies. This section is followed by specific chapters that cover Emerging contaminants in sludge (Endocrine disruptors, Pesticides and Pharmaceutical residues, including illicit drugs/controlled substances), Bioleaching of sludge [with an enriched sulfur-oxidizing bacterial community, Recovery of valuable metals (Bioleaching and use of sulfur-oxidizing bacterial community, and Biogas production by continuous thermal hydrolysis and thermophilic anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge.