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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Nemerow, Nelson L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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.