Electrochemistry: Energy and Environmental Applications - Softcover

Roque-Malherbe, Rolando

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659952915 ISBN 13: 9783659952913

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

The development of new methodologies is a basic objective of the research in Electrochemistry; this interest is demanded by the progress in all several field of industry, and technology; thereafter, Electrochemical methods have been applied during the last years for the treatment and monitoring of wastes, as for example: the elimination of organic or metal contaminants from industrial wastes for example by direct or indirect electrochemical oxidation of pollutants, metal recycling, sensing of pollutant and reagent levels in liquid and gaseous industrial wastes with the help of electrochemical sensors and biosensors, the creation of fuel cells, the removal of metal ions by electro-deposition and the electrochemical regeneration of spent soil washing, between others. In a general sense the aim of the methods for the electrochemical treatment of wastes is the application of electron transfer processes in order to transform contaminants into less hazardous chemicals. The general methodology to make the treatment is by using two electrodes immersed (normally) in an aqueous phase, to produce oxidation or reduction reactions producing, in general, wanted reaction products.

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About the Author

Born in 1948, Güines, Havana, Cuba. In 1970 finished a BSc in Physics, Havana University, Magna Cum Laude, in 1972 a MSc in Surface Physics in the National Center for Scientific Research, Cuba–Dresden University of Technology, Germany, Summa Cum Laude and a PhD in Solid State Physics in the National University for Science and Technology, Moscow.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659952915
• ISBN 13: 9783659952913
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216