Pollution Prevention and Control: Part I Human Health and Environmental Quality
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788740305265
Table of contents: title: Innhold; title: Preface; title: The Strategy of Pollution Control Engineering; title: Our Round River; title: A Preview of This Book; title: The Fallacy of Zero Emissions; title: The Integration of Pollution Control; title: An Integrated Approach to Design; title: The Integrated Approach to Learning Pollution Control Engineering; title: The Engineering Design Process; title: Defining the Design Problem; title: Identifying the Alternatives; title: Voluntary Pollution Prevention by Industry; title: Designing for Pollution Prevention; title: Green Chemistry; title: Savings from Pollution Prevention; title: Selecting the Best Design; title: Conclusion; title: The Environmental System; title: Environmental Cycles and Environmental Stability; title: The Water Cycle; title: The Natural Carbon Cycle; title: The Industrial Carbon Cycle; title: Essential Nutrients; title: The Nitrogen Cycle; title: The Phosphorus Cycle; title: The Sulfur Cycle; title: Conclusion; title: Toxicity and Aquatic Water Quality Criteria; title: Toxicity; title: Toxic Chemicals and Effects; title: Aquatic Bioassays; title: Water Quality Criteria for Toxic Chemicals; title: Site-Specific Water Quality Criteria; title: Adjusting for Water Hardness; title: Ammonia Toxicity; title: Conclusion; title: Risk Assessment; title: Risk Assessment Models and Philosophy; title: Semi-Quantitative Risk Assessment; title: Hazards and Risks; title: Toxic Chemicals – The Regulator’s Dilemma; title: Tests for Genotoxicity; title: The Reference Dose (RfD) for Non-Carcinogenic Chemicals; title: The Dose Response Curve and the Slope Factor (SF); title: The Added Risk Concept; title: Risk-based Standards for Drinking Water; title: Risk Assessment of the Land Application of Sludge; title: Conclusion; title: Waterborne Microbial Diseases; title: Promoting Public Health and Happiness; title: An Important Public Health Event; title: Risk Assessment for Pathogenic Organisms; title: The DALY Metric for Evaluating Public Health Risk; title: Drinking Water Treatment and Disinfection; title: Animal Waste Management; title: Natural Die-Off of Microorganisms; title: Management of Sludge Applications to Land; title: Monitoring the Microbial Quality of Drinking Water; title: Conclusion; title: The Fate of Pollutants in Air; title: Introduction; title: Natural and Engineered Systems; title: Global Dispersion of Pollutants; title: A Worst-Case Model for Pollutant Dispersion; title: The Gaussan Model for Air Pollutant Dispersion; title: Advanced Air Quality Models; title: Case Study: Detroit Multi-Pollutant Pilot Project; title: Conclusion; title: The Fate of Pollutants in Water; title: Introduction; title: Fate of Pollutants in Rivers; title: Segmented River Models; title: Partitioning of Pollutants between Water, Air and Solids; title: Case Study: PCBs in the Fox River, Wisconsin; title: Fate of Pollutants in Lakes; title: Advanced Lake Models; title: Fate of Pollutants in Estuaries; title: Case Study – The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Model; title: Fate of Pollutants in the Sea; title: Conclusion; title: The Fate of Pollutants in Soil and Groundwater; title: Groundwater Contamination; title: The Movement of Groundwater; title: Redirecting Groundwater Flow by Pumping; title: Case Study: Tucson International Airport Area (TIAA) Superfund Site; title: Conclusion; title: Guidelines for Environmental Protection; title: Introduction; title: International Environmental Agreements; title: World Health Organization Guidelines; title: European Union (EU Directives); title: India and China; title: The United States; title: ISO 14000 Standards for Environmental Quality Management; title: Conclusion; title: References & Recommended Reading; title: Appendix 1 – Drinking Water Criteria (Safe Drinking Water Act); title: Appendix 2 – Clean Water Act – Human Health Water Quality Criteria; title: Appendix 3 – USEPA Aquatic Life Criteria for Freshwater and Saltwater; title: Appendix 4 – Creation of U.S. Federal Law; title: Appendix 5 – Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); title: Appendix 6 – Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA); title: Index