Short description:

The book presents latest research in methods for limiting the environmental and economic costs of the processes involved in using non-traditional sources of water, to increase the efficiency of treatment processes and optimize water recovery and reuse, research has focused on recovery of resources from their associated waste streams.

Long description:

Water Treatment: Resource Recovery and Sustainability provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research in increasing the sustainability of water treatment processes. The use of non-traditional water sources, such as desalination of sea water and reuse of treated wastewater, is increasingly important given the paucity of freshwater resources globally. Only a very small fraction of the Earth?s water is fresh surface water easily available for use, whilst 40% of the global population are classed as living in high water stress areas. As such, increasing effort is being made to tap into non-traditional water sources, such as desalination of sea water and reuse of treated waste water, to make up this shortfall.

This volume presents the latest research in methods for limiting the environmental and economic costs of the processes involved in using non-traditional sources of water. To increase the efficiency of treatment processes and optimize water recovery and reuse, research has focused on recovery of resources from their associated waste streams, including recovery of: heat, pressure and generation of electricity from salinity gradients; nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphates: recovery of valuable minerals including metals concentrated in desalination brine as well as optimization of water recovery and reuse from wastewater sources. This comprehensive volume is aimed at graduate students, researchers and academics working in or teaching within this subject area and will be of interest to water industry professionals.

Table of Contents:

About the editors List of contributors Preface Section 1 ? Resource Recovery from Desalination and Wastewater Streams Chapter 1: Metals Recovery from RO Brine Muayad al-Shaeli, Raed A. Al-Juboori, Basheer Hashem Hlihl, Ahmed Faiq Al-Alawy, Bradley Ladewig, and Nidal Hilal Chapter 2: Use of Salts from RO Brine in Construction Materials Rotana Hay, Inderjeet Singh, Padmaja Krishnan, Xiangyu Wang, Farah Shahbaz, and Kemal Celik Chapter 3: Nutrient recovery from wastewater using membrane-based technologies Irene Gonzalez Salgado, Raed A. Al-Juboori, and Nidal Hilal  Chapter 4: Recycling of RO Membrane Modules Javier Rioyo, Raed A. Al-Juboori, and Nidal Hilal Chapter 5: Adsorption Techniques for Dye Removal/Recovery from Industrial Wastewater Muzamil Khatri, Raed A. Al-Juboori, Mujahid Mehdi, Noman Khalid Khanzada, and Nidal Hilal Section 2 ? Water Recovery from Desalination and WW Chapter 6: Membrane Distillation Crystallization for Implementing Zero Liquid Discharge in Desalination Xiaolu Li, Ying Bi, Muhammad Usman Farid, Noman Khalid Khanzada, Nidal Hilal, and Alicia K.J.AN Chapter 7: Water Recovery Via Osmotic Assistance: Principles, Applications, Advancements, and Challenges Paula Jungwan Choi, Noman Khalid Khanzada, Muzamil Khatri, and Nidal Hilal Chapter 8: Optimizing Water Recovery from Reverse Osmosis Desalination Noman Khalid Khanzada, Muhammad Saboor Siddique, Shazia Rehman, Duu-Jong Lee, and Nidal Hilal Chapter 9: Water Recycling and Reuse Yingying Xiang, Noman Khalid Khanzada, Shane Allen Snyder, and Nidal Hilal Section 3 ? Energy Recovery Chapter 10: Energy Recovery from Desalination Processes Wafa Ali Suwaileh, Saima Farooq, Farah Ahmed, and Nidal Hilal Chapter 11: Harnessing Energy from Osmotic Gradients of RO Brine Yazan Ibrahim, Haya Nassrullah, and Nidal Hilal Chapter 12: Energy Recovery from Wastewater Treatment Processes Yazan Ibrahim, Raed A. Al-Juboori, Haya Nassrullah, and Nidal Hilal Conclusions and Perspectives