Table Of ContentSustainable and Economic
Waste Management
Sustainable and Economic
Waste Management
Resource Recovery Techniques
Edited by
Hossain Md Anawar
Vladimir Strezov
Abhilash
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Contents
Preface .....................................................................................................................................................vii
Editors .......................................................................................................................................................ix
Contributors ..............................................................................................................................................xi
1. Pyrometallurgical Process for Recycling of Valuable Materials and Waste
Management: Valorisation Applications of Blast Furnace Slags ................................................1
Sara Yasipourtehrani, Vladimir Strezov, Tim Evans, and Hossain Md Anawar
2. Recovery of Value-Added Materials from Iron Ore Waste and Steel Processing
Slags with Zero-Waste Approach and Life Cycle Assessment ...................................................13
Hossain Md Anawar and Vladimir Strezov
3. The Reuse and Recycling of Coal Mining Waste with Zero-Waste Approach
by Technological Development and Integrated Management for Sustainable
Growth and Benefits .......................................................................................................................31
Hossain Md Anawar, Vladimir Strezov, and Tanveer M. Adyel
4. Sustainable and Economically Profitable Reuse of Bauxite Mining Waste
with Life Cycle Assessment ...........................................................................................................47
Hossain Md Anawar, Vladimir Strezov, Tanveer M. Adyel, and Golam Ahmed
5. Recycling, Reuse and Treatment Technologies of Mine Water for Environmental
Sustainability and Economic Benefit in Mining Operations .....................................................69
Hossain Md Anawar, Golam Ahmed, Vladimir Strezov, and Ruhul F. Siddique
6. Phosphate Fertilizer Recycling and Recovery from Phosphate Mine
and Mining Waste ..........................................................................................................................85
Hossain Md Anawar, Golam Ahmed, and Vladimir Strezov
7. Recovery of Resources from REE Mine Tailing and Waste, REE Fertilizer
Application and Environmental Effects.......................................................................................99
Hossain Md Anawar
8. Phytomining of Valuable Metals/Metalloids from Mining Wastes,
Tailings and Contaminated Soils ................................................................................................109
Hossain Md Anawar, Md Zabed Hossain, I. Santa-Regina, Vladimir Strezov, and Farjana Akter
9. Revegetation of Energy Crops on Acidic and Alkaline Toxic Metal-Rich Mining Waste
and Soil: Carbon Sequestration, Energy Production and Waste Management ....................127
Md Zabed Hossain, Hossain Md Anawar, I. Santa-Regina, and Farjana Akter
10. Biogeochemical Processes for Carbonation and Neutralization of Alkaline
Mining Waste, Recycling and Waste Management ...................................................................145
Hossain Md Anawar, Md Zabed Hossain, and Vladimir Strezov
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11. Biogeochemical Processes for Pedogenesis and Soil Formation in Mine Tailing
and Waste and Plant Growth for Waste Management ..............................................................161
Hossain Md Anawar, Vladimir Strezov, M. Zabed Hossain, Farjana Akter, and I. Santa-Regina
12. Permanent Landfill and Stabilization for the Remediation of Municipal
and Industrial Wastes ...................................................................................................................177
Hossain Md Anawar, Vladimir Strezov, and Tanveer M. Adyel
13. Microbial Fuel Cells to Produce Renewable Energy from Organic Matter-Rich
Wastewater and Solid Wastes Focusing on Economic Benefits and Sustainability ...............197
Hossain Md Anawar and Vladimir Strezov
14. Nutrient Recovery from Food, Industrial and Processing Waste and Effluent
Disposal Points in River and Estuary .........................................................................................213
Hossain Md Anawar, Md Zabed Hossain, Vladimir Strezov, I. Santa-Regina, and Farjana Akter
15. Sustainability and Resource Recovery of Waste Handling Services
in Commercial Office Environments ..........................................................................................229
Tao Kan, Vladimir Strezov, Suraj Opatokun, James Carlile, and Hossain Md Anawar
16. Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Metallurgical Wastes ...............................................247
Abhilash and Pratima Meshram
17. Characteristics and Processing of Copper Refinery Anode Slime ..........................................263
Navneet Singh Randhawa and Jhumki Hait
18. PGM Recovery from Mine Waste ...............................................................................................289
S. Ndlovu
Index ......................................................................................................................................................303
Preface
This book has summarized the research findings directly related to sustainable and economic waste
management and innovation in resource recovery techniques. The waste materials covered different
mining wastes and municipal, domestic, industrial and agricultural wastes and effluents. On the one
hand, these waste materials are responsible for serious environmental contamination, augmenting land
and water pollution, food chain contamination and threats to water security, ecological biodiversity and
human life. This contamination can be reduced and prevented by innovations in sustainable and eco-
nomic waste management techniques for the betterment of the environment. On the other hand, given
the limited availability of global mineral resources, energy and fertilizers, the recycling and reuse of
these materials is highly recommended by inventing new recovery processes and patents. Chapters 1–6
and 16–18 describe the waste management, life cycle assessment, recycling and recovery of valuable
materials from blast furnace slags, iron ore, coal mining, bauxite mining and phosphate mining waste
with a zero-waste approach. Four chapters are related to the recovery of rare earth elements, platinum
group metals, other valuable metals and resources from REE mine tailing, metallurgical wastes and
copper refinery anode slime. One chapter describes the recycling, reuse and treatment technologies of
mine water for environmental sustainability and economic benefit in mining operations. Two chapters
demonstrate revegetation of hyperaccumulator and energy crops on mining wastes, tailings and con-
taminated soils for phytomining of valuable metals, carbon sequestration, energy production and waste
management. Two chapters review the biogeochemical processes occurring in mining waste and tailing,
leading to carbonation, neutralization, pedogenesis and soil formation in waste and plant growth for
waste management. Finally, four chapters delineate the landfill stabilization, energy (electricity) and
nutrient recovery from domestic, municipal and industrial waste with emphasis on technological prog-
ress and economic sustainability. In conclusion, the main goal of this book is to review and synthesize
the key research findings related to innovation in sustainable and economic resource recovery and waste
management techniques that will not only minimize the amount of waste materials and environmental
contaminants, but also recover valuable resources from these wastes.
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Editors
Hossain Md Anawar h as been recognised for his significant research work on environmental chemistry
and biogeochemistry. His research excellence is recognized in 59 peer-reviewed international SCI jour-
nals, 18 book chapters, many conference publications and compendiums of prominent individuals in the
scientific world such as Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 2003. He has been regularly
invited to referee manuscripts from 15 international leading journals. He has worked in different uni-
versities and research institutes in Japan, Spain, the Czech Republic, Portugal, South Africa, Botswana
and Australia.
Vladimir Strezov i s a Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and
Engineering, Macquarie University, Australia. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering and a Bachelor
of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering. Professor Strezov leads a research group at Macquarie
University working on renewable and sustainable energy, industrial ecology, and control of environ-
mental pollution. He serves as an advisory panel member for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency
(ARENA) and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia. Professor Strezov is author of more
than 200 articles and editor of four books.
Abhilash is Senior Scientist and Assistant Professor (AcSIR) of Secondaries and Resource Utilisation
Group, Metal Extraction & Recycling Division, at CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur,
India. He has published 47 articles in national and international journals, 10 book chapters, 5 edited
books, and nearly 30 conference publications. He is on the Editorial Board of the Mineral Processing and
Extractive Metallurgy Review (Taylor & Francis) and Russian Journal of Nonferrous Metals (Springer).
He has been recognised for his contributions to Biohydrometallurgy, Waste Recycling (urban and pro-
cess), and Rare Earth Extraction.
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