Electronic Waste Management and Treatment Technology

Electronic Waste Management and Treatment Technology applies the latest research for designing waste treatment and disposal strategies. Written for researchers who are exploring this emerging topic, the book begins with a short, but rigorous, discussion of electric waste management that outlines common hazardous materials. such as mercury, lead, silver and flame-retardants. The book also discusses the fate of metals contained in waste electrical and electronic equipment in municipal waste treatment. Materials and methods for the remediation, recycling and treatment of plastic waste collected from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are also covered.

Finally, the book covers the depollution benchmarks for capacitors, batteries and printed circuit boards from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and the recovery of waste printed circuit boards through pyrometallurgy.

Autorentext
Dr. Prasad is Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad (India). He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of bioremediation, bioresources, biomass energy sources, bioeconomy, and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology, all of which are his main areas of expertise. Dr. Prasad has served the Government of India's Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change as a member of various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist for several international universities. Dr. Meththika Vithanage ****is a Professor in the Department of Geochemistry at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark. Her work centers on quantifying concentrations and reaction kinetics of key and emerging pollutants, including microplastics, and Persistent, Mobile and Toxic contaminants. She advances understanding of their environmental fate and transport and develops remediation strategies using innovative geo-, bio-, and nanomaterials.

Inhalt

1. Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE): Flows, quantities and management, a global scenario
2. Inventorisation of E-Waste and Emerging trends in E-waste disposal with bench marks for depollution - global scenario
3. An overview of methods used for estimating e-waste amount
4. Network design for e-waste management
5. Environmental management of e-waste
6. Biorecovery of precious metal nanoparticles from electronic waste
7. Bioleaching of electronic waste using extreme acidophiles
8. Resource recovery from E-waste for environmental sustainability
9. Biotechnological initiatives in E-waste Management: Recycling and business opportunities
10. Hydrometallurgical Recovery of Metals from E-waste
11. Recovery of waste printed circuit boards through pyrometallurgy
12. E-waste Management in Australia: Current Status
13. Environmental management of E-waste in China
14. Chemical hazards associated with treatment of waste electrical and electronic equipment
15. Environmental contamination and health effects due to e-waste recycling