Industrial Waste Treatment

Contemporary Practice and Vision for the Future

Nelson Leonard Nemerow

568 pages, parution le 25/11/2006

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Résumé

Taking the reader through the history of industrial waste treatment and directing them toward a new path of best practice, this book illustrates how current treatment techniques are affected by regulatory and economic constraints, scientific knowledge and tolerances. This book provides the reader with the basis for a more effective method of waste treatment which is sustainable and supportive of industrial improvements. Overall, it provides valuable information for planners, industrial, civil and environmental engineers and government officials for a better understanding of current practices and regulatory history and how these factors relate to the ability to complete environmental solutions to industrial waste problems.

Features & Benefits

Provides environmental history from a professional/technical point-of-view as a basis for total solutions engineering
Includes sustainable practice necessary for the 21st Century
Thoroughly explores industry and environmental regulations over the past 150 years

Sommaire

20th Century
- Introduction to Industrial Waste Treatment
- History of Environmental Industrial Wastes
- Theories and Practices
- Volume Reduction
- Contaminant Concentration Reduction
- Neutralization
- Equalization and Proporationing
- Suspended Solids Removal
- Colloidal Solids Removal
- Inorganic Dissolved Solids Removal
- Organic Solids Removal
- Treatment and disposal of Sludge Solids
- Joint Treatment with Domestic Sewage
- Treatment of Hazardous Wastes
- Air Contaminants Removal
- Major Industrial Wastes
21ST Century
- Rational of Environmental Complexes
- Procedure for Industry in Attaining Zero Pollution
- Economics of Environmental Complexes
- Realistic Industrial Complexes
- Potential Industrial Complexes
- Potential Municipal-Industrial Complexes
- Naturally-Evolving Industrial Complexes
- Benefit-related Expenditures for Industrial Waste Treatment
- Summary
- Critique of Environmental Complexes

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Éditeur(s)	Butterworth-Heinemann
Auteur(s)	Nelson Leonard Nemerow
Parution	25/11/2006
Nb. de pages	568
Format	16 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	890g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780123724939
ISBN13	978-0-12-372493-9