The use of synthetic chemicals has created a numerous problems in the
modern society. This book is a unique approach for the prospect of using
natural additives for both water treatment process and petroleum
operations. Heavy metal compounds and synthetic alkali are targeted in
this book in order to remove and/or replace them with natural additives.
For the removal of heavy metals (copper, cadmium and lead) from waste
water, the potential of using maple wood sawdust as an adsorbent is
successfully investigated. The Langmuir and the Freundlich adsorption
isotherms model have been discussed thoroughly for different
environmental parameters (i.e. temperature, pH, reaction time, each
metal concentrate, adsorbent dose) to check the technical feasibility of
maple wood sawdust as an noble adsorbent. On the other hand, maple wood
ash is proposed for producing natural alkali that can offset the need of
very high amount of synthetic alkali during enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
operations. Eventually, the contents of the book discussed a series of
experiments using environmental friendly natural additives on
sustainable waste water treatment process and EOR operations in
petroleum industry.