Green Materials for Energy, Products and Depollution

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lichtfouse, Eric. (Editor), Schwarzbauer, Jan. (Editor), Robert, Didier. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World, 3
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Computer engineering.; Renewable energy sources.; Climatic changes.; Environmental chemistry.; Environmental pollution.; Environment.; Environmental Chemistry.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.; Climate Change.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Electrical Engineering.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6836-9
• Physical Description: XII, 476 p. 110 illus., 23 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9789400768369
• ISSN: 2213-7114

Using renewable fuels and materials, drinking clean water and food, and breathing safe air are major issues for a sustainable world. This book reviews biodiesel production from microalgae, a promising energy source that does not compete with food production. Several advanced techniques to clean polluted waters, such as electrochemistry, ferrites photocatalysis and low-cost filtration are presented. Chapters also show various living organisms used as bioindicators of toxic metals. Decreasing ecotoxicity of pesticides using suitable surfactants is reviewed. The last chapter evidences new pollutants in urban soils, halogenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.