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Greener and sustainable remediation using iron nanomaterials
Citation:
Virkutyte, J. AND R. Varma. Greener and sustainable remediation using iron nanomaterials. Chapter 1, Green Catalysts for Energy Transformation and Emission Control, ISBN13:9780841230149. ACS Publications, Washington, DC, 1184:1-21, (2015).
Impact/Purpose:
Sent for publication as a chapter in the American Chemical Society (ACS) Book Series, entitled, "Green Catalysts for Energy Transformation and Emission Control"
Description:
The main goal of remediation is to protect humans and the environment. Unfortunately, many remedial actions in the past concentrated more on site-specific environmental risks and conditions completely ignoring external social and economic impacts. Thus, new approach called green sustainable remediation (GSR) has to be adopted throughout industry. One of the significant factors that make remedial actions successful is green and sustainable catalyst that makes remediation process implementation cheaper and effective. Nanoparticles (e.g. Zero Valent Iron, ZVI) has a potential to not only reduce the costs of the cleanup but also significantly reduce remediation time, eliminate or at least significantly minimize the need for treatment and disposal of dredged soil due to applications in situ. This chapter presents information on GSR, provides examples of catalyst preparation and real scale applications with details.
