Animal Products

Animal Products: Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment offers a rigorous, practically relevant exploration connecting fundamental science with applied engineering, highlighting mechanistic degradation pathways of proteins, fats, and oils, persistent pathogens, and antimicrobial resistance factors. By analyzing how effluent composition affects advanced treatment performance, the book links chemistry to process design and efficiency. It blends detailed analysis with case studies to illuminate environmental risks and technological opportunities inherent in these streams. Going beyond conventional methods, it showcases hybrid and integrated systems, advanced oxidation, electrochemical and membrane technologies, and emerging digital approaches such as data-driven modeling and AI for optimization.

Animal Products: Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment links scientific advances to industrial practice, demonstrating contributions to environmental sustainability, resource recovery, and the circular economy. It situates the discussion within regulatory frameworks, presenting strategies to meet stricter standards, reduce ecological footprints, and valorize wastewater for energy and products across animal-product industries worldwide.

• Analyses characteristics and contaminants in wastewater from animal-product industries, including slaughterhouses, dairies, rendering plants, and tanneries, with emphasis on their environmental and operational challenges
• Covers advanced treatment technologies tailored to effluents, such as membrane bioreactors, anaerobic digestion with energy recovery, electrochemical methods, and hybrid or integrated systems
• Presents case studies and industrial applications, illustrating the application of innovative treatment strategies in animal-product wastewater management
• Explores digital and AI-based approaches, sustainability assessment, resource recovery, and circular-economy strategies for advanced wastewater treatment