Eric Lichtfouse Livres

Using renewable fuels and materials, drinking clean water and food, and breathing safe air are major issues for a sustainable world. This book reviews biodiesel production from microalgae, a promising energy source that does not compete with food production. Several advanced techniques to clean polluted waters, such as electrochemistry, ferrites photocatalysis and low-cost filtration are presented. Chapters also show various living organisms used as bioindicators of toxic metals. Decreasing ecotoxicity of pesticides using suitable surfactants is reviewed. The last chapter evidences new pollutants in urban soils, halogenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.​

This book describes advances in this new, fast developing science, which seeks to decipher fundamental mechanisms ruling the behaviour in water, soils, atmosphere, food and living organisms of toxic metals, fossil fuels, pesticides and other organic pollutants. Sections on eco-toxicology, green chemistry, and analytical chemistry round out this thorough survey of conditions and analytical techniques in an emerging specialty.

This volume emphasizes the importance of water for sustainable development and addresses pollution caused by population growth and industrialization. It explores various nanocomposites for water treatment, detailing technologies and materials like polymer hybrids and zeolites for decontamination. Recent advancements are discussed, making it a valuable resource for researchers and professionals.

This second volume on "Inorganic-Organic Composites for Water and Wastewater Treatment" reviews advanced materials and methods for purification, focusing on emerging pollutants. It discusses metal-organic frameworks, their synthesis, properties, and hybrid systems, along with carbon quantum dots, ion-exchange resins, composite aerogels, and titania composites for treatment processes.

This book details first the chemistry of hydrogen production from biomass. Solutions to the CO 2 issue are given in three chapters, which describe CO 2 photo catalytic reduction, CO 2 sequestration in terrestrial biomass, and plants as renewable fuels. Further chapters review the selenium cycle in ecosystems, advanced processes to treat water and ecological ways to dye textiles.  Society growth during the last century has almost entirely relied on the carbon economy, which is the use of fossil fuels for energy and materials. The carbon economy has provided and will still provide many benefits. However, the increasing use of fossil fuels is partly responsible for the increase of atmospheric CO 2 concentrations and in turn, global warming. There is therefore an urgent need for cleaner fuels such as hydrogen, as well as a need for a carbon neutral economy where each emitted CO 2 molecule is fast sequestered in plants, algae, soils, sub soils and sediments.

This book addresses the rapidly growing field focused on sustainable food and energy production for current and future generations. It tackles pressing issues like climate change, rising food and fuel prices, starvation in poorer nations, obesity in wealthier ones, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion. The text proposes innovative, environmentally-friendly solutions by integrating knowledge from various disciplines, including agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economics, and social sciences. Sustainable agriculture examines processes from the molecular level to global systems, considering time scales from seconds to centuries. Scientists employ a systems approach, studying the interactions within whole systems rather than applying narrow, classical methods that only address symptoms. By focusing on the root causes of intertwined societal issues, sustainable agriculture offers pathways to a safer world. This series compiles review articles that analyze contemporary agricultural challenges and propose alternative solutions, serving as a resource for scientists, decision-makers, educators, farmers, and politicians dedicated to creating a sustainable food and energy system for future generations.