Books in the Environmental Science & Pollution series

Examines potential means of exposure to water contaminants. This book discusses toxicology, and explains techniques for evaluating human health risk. It also develops a methodology for assessing the cumulative absorbed dose of contaminants through various routes of exposure, including ingestion, inhalation and dermal.

Offers information on the theory of major drinking water treatment processes and contains real-life practical examples. This work aims to create guidelines for the design of unit processes that operate within an overall framework for water treatment plants.

Presents approaches and methodologies for implementing pollution prevention (P2) and waste minimization programmes to reduce manufacturing operational costs significantly. This book focuses on reducing manufacturing and environmental compliance costs by instituting feedstock substitution, improved operational schemes, and recycling.

Introduces various techniques for soil remediation, including chemical fixation/stabilization, soil vapor extraction, thermally enhanced vapor stripping, biodegradation, and air sparging. This title describes the ex shu technique of thermal desorption of soil contaminants - a low-cost alternative to incineration for the removal of organics.

Offers a discussion of the separation processes used for waste minimization, showing how the processes work on a day-to-day basis. This title provides troubleshooting tips for equipment that doesn't function according to design specifications. It describes the fundamentals of over 30 processes, types of equipment available, and vendors.

Details the economic, regulatory and environmental protection issues related to biosolids management and use. This work evaluates treatment technologies and management strategies for the beneficial utilization of municipal wastewater residuals. It presents cost information regarding the relative economic merits of reuse and disposal methods.

Presents an integrated chemical behavior of selected toxic metals: arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, mercury and lead. This work discusses the various processes that may affect their marine chemistry. It performs thermodynamic calculations to propose the probable route of chemical behavior.

Addresses various aspects of pollution control for the mining, production, transportation, and distribution of chemical fertilizers covering technologies for various segments of the industry, including raw materials production, end products, and by-products.

Offers information on the toxicological properties of, and safe handling practices for, pesticides. This work provides an overview of the registration process, registration procedures and supplemental registration. It provides an alphabetic listing of over 800 chemicals, including their applications.

Covers the remediation of soils contaminated by hazardous wastes, including materials, analytical techniques, cleanup design and methodology, characterization of geomedia, monitoring of contaminants in the subsurface, and waste containment. This book also cites specific case studies in hydrocarbon remediation.

Focuses on innovative bioremediation techniques and applications for the cleanup of contaminated media and sites. This book includes quantitative and design methods that elucidate the relationships among various operational parameters, and waste chemistry that defines the cost effectiveness of bioremediation projects.

Offers a treatment of the remediation of soils contaminated by hazardous wastes and the scientific and engineering issues that must be addressed in creating practical solutions for their reclamation.

A guide to environmental health and safety statutes - providing a working knowledge of the major legislations and regulations and demonstrating the steps necessary for compliance. It illustrates health and safety management skills for multimedia facilities.

Offers information on the hazardous properties of several hundred generic and specific polymeric additives used in elastomer and plastics processing operations, detailing the symproms of overexposure as well as resonsible packaging, shipping and emergency-response procedures. This title offers useful safety data.

This reference overflows with an abundance of experimental techniques, simulation strategies, and practical applications useful in the control of pollutants generated by combustion processes in the metals, minerals, chemical, petrochemical, waste, incineration, paper, glass, and food industries. The book assists engineers as they attempt to meet em