"Heavy Metals Environmental Impact and Remediation" ed. by Hosam M. Saleh, Amal I. Hassan

This book provides a comprehensive overview of heavy metals, their impacts on water, soil, food crops, and cosmetics, and techniques for their remediation.

Heavy metals are a group of metals and metalloids that includes transition metals, lanthanides, and actinides. When released into water, these elements have toxic effects on water quality and surface sediments, affecting environmental parameters such as pH and temperature. Therefore, metals that are harmful to aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems pose a significant threat to plants, animals, and human health. As such, there is increased interest in mitigating the harmful environmental impacts of heavy metals.
The book organized into three sections: “Heavy Metals and Their Effects on the Environment,” “Evaluation of Heavy Metals and Their Risks to Irrigation Water,” and “Remediation of Heavy Metals.”

Contents
1. Heavy Metal’s Environmental Impact
2. Toxicity of Heavy Metals
3. Influence of Heavy Metals on Quality of Raw Materials, Animal Products, and Human and Animal Health Status
4. Heavy Metal Contamination of Food Crops: Transportation via Food Chain, Human Consumption, Toxicity and Management Strategies
5. Soil-Skeleton and Soil-Water Heavy Metal Contamination by Finite Element Modelling with Freundlich Isotherm Adsorption Parameters
6. Microwave Vitrification of Hazardous Sludge by Şırnak Asphaltite Slime, Shale and Sewage Sludge – Landfill Management by Vitrified Char Sand
7. Heavy Metals in Cosmetics
8. Concentration Levels of Heavy Metals and Selected Ions in the Irrigation Water: The Case of Little Akaki River, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
9. Toxicants in Water: Hydrochemical Appraisal of Toxic Metals Concentration and Seasonal Variation in Drinking Water Quality in Oil and Gas Field Area of Rivers State, Nigeria
10. Effect of Mining on Heavy Metals Toxicity and Health Risk in Selected Rivers of Ghana
11. Distribution of Potentially Toxic Elements in Water, Sediment and Soils in the Riparian Zones around a Kraft Pulp and Paper Mill in Western Kenya
12. Quantification of Heavy Metal Levels in Sediments of the “Palizada” River in a Protected Natural Area of Southeastern Mexico
13. Leaching Technology for Precious Heavy Metal Recapture through (HCI + HNO3) and (HCI + H2SO4) from E-Waste
14. Phytoextraction of Zn(II) and Cu(II) by Canna indica: Related Physiological Effects


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