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Management of contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) in environment /

"Management of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC) in Environment provides information about new concepts and latest developments in origin, reaction pathways, transportation, transformation products, identification, and adverse effects of CEC, as well as recent remediation technologies and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Singh, Pardeep (Environmental engineer)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Hussain, Chaudhery Mustansar, Rajkhowa, Sanchayita
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2021.
Subjects:
Pollution > Management.
Pollutants > Environmental aspects.
Pollution > Gestion.
Polluants > Aspect de l'environnement.
Pollutants > Environmental aspects
Pollution > Management
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1
  • Occurrence, Distribution, and Fate of Emerging Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Environment
  • 1
  • Introduction
  • 2
  • Emerging contaminants and contaminants of emerging concern
  • 2.1
  • Emerging persistent organic pollutants
  • 2.2
  • Screening criteria of chemicals in international chemical conventions
  • 2.3
  • SC POPs screening criteria
  • 2.4
  • POPs screening criteria and ePOPs/PBT chemicals
  • 3
  • Cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes
  • 3.1
  • Production, use, and properties
  • 3.2
  • Ambient air
  • 3.3
  • Indoor air and house dust
  • 3.4
  • Waste water and sewage sludge
  • 3.5
  • Soil and sediment
  • 3.6
  • Screening criteria of POPs and cVMS
  • 4
  • Emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances
  • 4.1
  • Production, use, and properties
  • 4.1.1
  • Classification and sub-groups of PFAS
  • 4.1.2
  • Production and applications of PFAS
  • 4.2
  • Emerging PFAS and SC screening criteria
  • 4.2.1
  • Emerging PFAS and its PBT properties
  • 4.3
  • Environmental occurrence and fate
  • 4.3.1
  • Air
  • 4.3.2
  • Water and wastewater
  • 4.3.3
  • Ground water and drinking water
  • 4.3.4
  • Wastewater and municipal sewage sludge
  • 4.3.5
  • Soil and sediments
  • 4.3.5.1
  • Soil contamination due to AFFF use
  • 4.3.5.2
  • Soil contamination due to emissions from fluoropolymer industries
  • 4.3.5.3
  • Sediment PFAS levels
  • 5
  • Flame retardants
  • 5.1
  • Novel flame retardants
  • 5.1.1
  • Production, use, and properties
  • 5.1.2
  • Organophosphorus flame retardants
  • 5.2
  • Environmental occurrence
  • 5.2.1
  • Physicochemical properties and partitioning behavior of OPFRS
  • 5.2.2
  • Levels of OPFRS in air
  • 5.2.3
  • OPFRs in urban and hot spot areas
  • 5.3
  • Water and wastewater
  • 5.3.1
  • OPFRs in drinking water
  • 5.3.2
  • OPFRs in marine and estuarine waters
  • 5.3.3
  • OPFRs in freshwater bodies
  • 5.3.4
  • OPFRs in waste water
  • 5.4
  • Soil and sediment
  • 5.4.1
  • Physicochemical properties and partitioning behavior
  • 5.4.2
  • Soil OPFRs levels
  • 5.4.3
  • OPFRs in sediment
  • 5.4.3.1
  • OPFRs in sediment core samples
  • 5.4.4
  • OPFRs as candidate pops
  • 6
  • Tetrabromobisphenol-A
  • 6.1
  • Production, use, and properties
  • 6.2
  • Environmental occurrence of tetrabromobisphenol-A
  • 6.3
  • POPs screening criteria and TBBP-A
  • 7
  • Hexabromocyclododecane
  • 7.1
  • Production, use, and properties
  • 7.2
  • Environmental fate
  • 7.3
  • Environmental distribution
  • 7.3.1
  • Air
  • 7.3.2
  • Soil
  • 7.3.3
  • Water, wastewater, and sludge
  • 8
  • Concluding remarks and future perspectives
  • References
  • Chapter 2
  • Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Environment and its Health Impact
  • 1
  • Introduction
  • 2
  • Characteristics of POPs
  • 3
  • Sources of POPs
  • 4
  • Type of persistent organic pollutants
  • 5
  • Health impacts of POPs
  • 5.1
  • Cardiovascular problems
  • 5.2
  • Reproductive problems
  • 5.3
  • Endocrine disruption
  • 5.4
  • Cancer
  • 5.5
  • Obesity
  • 5.6
  • Diabetes