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Environmental Contaminants
Assessment and Control
- 1st Edition - August 5, 2010
- Author: Daniel A. Vallero
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 7 0 3 5 - 1
Environmental Contaminants serves as a tool for environmental professionals to produce technically sound and reproducible scientific evidence. It identifies ways to clean up enviro… Read more
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Request a sales quoteEnvironmental Contaminants serves as a tool for environmental professionals to produce technically sound and reproducible scientific evidence. It identifies ways to clean up environmental problems in air, water, soil, sediment and living systems. Ethical issues, environmental management, and professionalism, and environmental economic problems are illustrated to assist the reader in understanding and applying quantitative analysis of environmental problems.
- Real life solutions for practicing environmental professionals.
- Example problems, sidebars, and case studies to illustrate ethical issues, environmental economic problems, and environmental management.
- Explanation of scientific principles and concepts needed for risk assessment, waste management, contaminant transport, environmental hydrogeology, and environmental engineering & chemistry.
- A fully supportive glossary, appendices and tables throughout the text contain physical, chemical and biological resources necessary for all environmental practitioners.
Environmental Professionals, Risk Assessment Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Environmental Toxicology Engineers, Soils Scientists, Ecologist, Geoscientists, Hydrologists
PrefacePrologue: The ChallengeAcknowledgmentsAuthor’s Note on Discussion Boxes, Equations, and Concentration UnitsPart I: An Environmental Policy Primer1. Scientific and Engineering Perspectives of Environmental Contaminantsa. The Evolution and Progress of Environmental Science and Engineeringb. What is a Contaminant?c. Understanding Policy by Understanding Scienced. Connections and Interrelationships of Environmental Sciencee. Environmental Assessment and Interventionf. Introduction to Environmental Policyg. Urban Air Pollutionh. Acid Depositioni. Protection the Ozone Layerj. Water Quality Legislationk. Solid and Hazardous Wastes Lawsl. Environmental Product and Consumer Protection LawsPart II: Fundamentals of Environmental Science and Engineering Introduction to Part II2. Fundamentals of Environmental Physicsa. Principles and Concepts of Energy and Matter Important to the Environmentb. Mass and Workc. Environmental Mechanics3. Applied Contaminant Physics: Fluid Propertiesa. Physical Properties of Environmental Fluidsb. Velocityc. Discharge and Flowd. Pressuree. Accelerationf. Displacement, Velocity, and Accelerationg. Densityh. Specific Gravity4. Environmental Equilibrium, Partitioning, and Balancesa. Fundamentals of Environmental Equilibriab. Solubility as Physical and Chemical Phenomenonc. Intramolecular Bonds, Intermolecular Forces, and Molecular Dipole Momentsd. Fluid Solubility/Density Relationshipse. Environmental Thermodynamicsf. The Environmental Mass Balance Reaction Term5. Movement of Contaminants in the Environmenta. Environmental Chemodynamics Modelsb. Selecting Units of Mass and Concentrations in Chemdynamicsc. Fugacity, Z Values, and Henry’s Lawd. How Contaminants Move in the Environmente. Overall Effect of the Fluxes, Sinks, and Sourcesf. Combining Transport and Degradation Processes Using Half-Lives and Rate Constants6. Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistrya. Basic Concepts of Environmental Chemistryb. Organic Chemistry7. Chemical Reactions in the Environmenta. Environmental Ionic Reactionsb. Environmental Acid and Base Chemistryc. Precipitation Reactions in Environmental Engineeringd. Oxidation-Reduction Reactionse. Biological Redox Reactionsf. Environmental Metal Chemistry8. Biological Principles of Environmental Contaminationa. The Cellb. The “Bio” Termsc. Biomarkers of Contaminants d. Accelerated Biodegradation: Bioremediatione. Biocriteria: A New Way to Determine Environmental QualityPart III: Contaminant Risk9. Contaminant Hazardsa. Environmental Toxicologyb. Toxicity Testingc. Hazardous Waste Characterisiticsd. Bio-Effective Dosee. Toxicokinetics and Toxicodynamicsf. Environmental Epidemiologyg. Contaminant Groupingsh. Carcinogensi. Chronic Noncancer Health Endpointsj. Environmental Endocrine Disruptorsk. Neurotoxinsl. Immunotoxinsm. Ecological Toxicity10. Contaminant Exposure and Risk Calculationsa. Exposure Assessmentb. Calculating Riskc. Applying Cancer Risk Calculations to Cleanup Levelsd. Non-Cancer Hazard and Risk Calculationse. Comprehensive Risk CommunicationPart IV: Interventions to Address Environmental Contamination11. Contaminant Sampling and Analysisa. Environmental Monitoringb. Laboratory Analysisc. Sources of Uncertaintyd. Chemiluminescence and Fluorescent In-Situ Hybridizatione. Integration of Monitoring Techniques: Chmiluminescence12. Intervention: Manging the Risks of Environmental Contaminationa. A Template for Cleaning Up Contaminantsb. Characterizing Contaminants in the Environmentc. Estimating Contaminant Migrationd. Treatability Testse. Contaminant Treatment and Control Approachesf. Thermal Processing: The Science, Engineering and Technology of Contaminant Destructiong. Microbiological Processing: The Science, Engineering, and Technology of Contaminant Biotreatmenth. Hazardous Waste Storage Landfills: Examples of the Science, Engineering, and Technology of Long-Term Storage of Contaminated Mediai. Sitingj. Ex Situ and In Situ Treatment13. Environmental Decisions and Professionalisma. Communicating Scientific Informationb. Environmental Information Management14. Epilogue: Benzene Metabolism Revisiteda. The Sensitivity Analysis: An Important Step Beyond Stoichiometryb. Interdependence between a Contaminant and a SubstrateGlossary of Environmental Sciences and Engineering TerminologyAppendix 1. Appendix 2. Appendix 3. Appendix 4.Appendix 5.Appendix 6. Appendix 7. Appendix 8. Appendix 9. Index
- No. of pages: 832
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 5, 2010
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080470351
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Daniel A. Vallero
Professor Daniel A. Vallero is an internationally recognized author and expert in environmental science and engineering. He has devoted decades to conducting research, teaching, and mentoring future scientists and engineers. He is currently developing tools and models to predict potential exposures to chemicals in consumer products. He is a full adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. He has authored 20 environmental textbooks, with the most recent addressing the importance of physical principles in environmental science and engineering. His books have addressed all environmental compartments and media within the earth’s atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.
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Full Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, NC, USARead Environmental Contaminants on ScienceDirect