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 wi...
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann,
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- PART A---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; PART B---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.
- Prologue
- Industrial environmental history
- Introduction to industrial waste treatment
- pt. A: Twentieth century. Theories and practices
- Contaminant concentration reduction
- Neutralization
- Equalization and proportioning
- Removal of suspended solids
- Removal of colloidal solids
- Removal of inorganic dissolved solids
- Removal of organic dissolved solids
- Treatment and disposal of sludge solids
- Joint treatment of raw industrial waste with domestic sewage
- Hazardous wastes
- Removal of industrial air contaminants
- pt. B: Twenty-first century. Foreword to the twenty-first century
- Preface to the twenty-first century
- Prologue to the twenty-first century
- Rationale of environmentally balanced industrial complexes
- Procedure for industry in attaining zero pollution
- Economic justification for industrial complexes
- Realistic industrial complexes
- Potential industrial complexes
- Potential municipal-industrial complexes
- Naturally evolving industrial complexes
- Benefit-related expenditures for industrial waste treatment
- Summary.