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Industrial Waste Treatment
Taking the reader through the history of industrial waste treatment and directing them toward a new path of best practice, Industrial Waste Treatment 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. * 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
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Environmental Solutions
In our changing world, society demands more comprehensive and thoughtful solutions from environmental engineers, environmental consultants and scientists dealing with the degradation of our environment. Lead by Nelson Nemerow and Franklin Agardy, experts in business, academia, government and practice have been brought together in Environmental Solutions to provide guidance for these environmental professionals. The reader is presented with a variety of solutions to common and not so common environmental problems which lay the groundwork for environmental advocates to decide which solutions will work best for their particular circumstances. This book discusses chemical, biological, physical, forensic, medical, international, economic, political, industrial-collaborative solutions and solutions for rural and developing countries giving readers the freedom to evaluate a variety of options and make informed decisions. End of chapter questions and additional resources are included making this an invaluable teaching tool and ideal reference for those currently involved in improving and preserving our environment. * Contributions by international experts in government, industry, and academia. * Editors are recognized as the editors of Environmental Engineering, the best selling title published by John Wiley. * The first action-oriented book for environmental engineers.
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Industrial waste treatment: contemporary practice and vision for the future
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.
* 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
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Environmental solutions: environmental problems and the all-inclusive global, scientific, political, legal, economic, medical, and engineering bases to solve them
In our changing world, society demands more comprehensive and thoughtful solutions from environmental engineers, environmental consultants and scientists dealing with the degradation of our environment. Lead by Nelson Nemerow and Franklin Agardy, experts in business, academia, government and practice have been brought together in this book to provide guidance for these environmental professionals. The reader is presented with a variety of solutions to common and not so common environmental problems which lay the groundwork for environmental advocates to decide which solutions will work best for their particular circumstances. This book discusses chemical, biological, physical, forensic, medical, international, economic, political, industrial-collaborative solutions and solutions for rural and developing countries giving readers the freedom to evaluate a variety of options and make informed decisions. End of chapter questions and additional resources are included making this an invaluable teaching tool and ideal reference for those currently involved in improving and preserving our environment.
* Contributions by international experts in government, industry, and academia.* Editors are recognized as the editors of Environmental Engineering, the best selling title published by John Wiley* The first action-oriented book for environmental engineers.
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Introduction to industrial waste treatment
Serious treatment of industrial wastes did not really begin in the United States until the 1930s. The extent of treatment grew during the next 70 years of the twentieth century. It broadened during this period to include many types of industries. The complexity of treatment also increased as environmental restrictions became greater. The goal of effective industrial waste treatment is directed toward the removal of all contaminants that adversely impact the water as well as air and land environments. One should keep this goal in mind at all times regardless of the presence or absence of governmental or economic constraints.
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Industrial environmental history
Industrial liquid effluents can be traced as far back as the nineteenth century. Basic industries such as coal, power production, dairy, textile, cannery, tannery, and paper, which produce goods necessary for the sustenance of life, were the first to face the pollution problem. Chemical industries, mainly inorganic, such as salt and salt degradation products including chlorine, lye, and soda ash, were next chronologically and in importance. Basic organic chemical plants, such as sugar, starch, and cellulosic wastes, followed these. Radioactivity, petrochemical, and synthetic organic chemicals were largely developed and surfaced in the environment in the 1940s and 1950s. During this period, major environmental problems surfaced with rapid and serious consequences. It was not until the 1930s that the nation acknowledged that solving its pollution problems would require time, study, and most of all, money. Many of the early answers to these problems were stopgap measures intended to prevent overloading the environment. Eventually company managers began to realize that recovering and reusing or selling their wastes was more practical and economical than treating and disposing of them. One of the more promising recent innovations is the creation of emissions and effluent trading programs in which a company spends money to treat or eliminate waste and receives “credits” from an environmental control agency.
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