This book covers major areas and recent developments in advanced technologies for treating industrial effluents contaminated with heavy metals. It also includes selected in-situ sustainability studies involving advanced computational techniques and artificial intelligence (AI), highlighting the sustainability aspects of the investigated technologies and processes. It enables the readers to choose a suitable treatment strategy for specific scenarios and familiarizes them with emerging computational as well as AI-based approaches.

Features:

• Discusses potential of emerging technologies for heavy metal recovery/removal from wastewater
• Includes recent developments in various wastewater treatment technologies and their implications on industrial ecosystem
• Explores potential applications of smart material and geo-polymeric substances for metals removal from aqueous environment
• Reviews climate change and sustainability aspects of metal removal technologies
• Examines computational and AI models based approaches for heavy metal monitoring and prediction

This book is intended for researchers and graduate students in the field of environmental engineering, chemical engineering, and wastewater treatment.