Vapor-phase Organic Pollutants
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Publisher : National Academies
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Science
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Author :
Publisher : National Academies
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Science
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0309144019
Recent advances in air pollution monitoring and modeling capabilities have made it possible to show that air pollution can be transported long distances and that adverse impacts of emitted pollutants cannot be confined to one country or even one continent. Pollutants from traffic, cooking stoves, and factories emitted half a world away can make the air we inhale today more hazardous for our health. The relative importance of this "imported" pollution is likely to increase, as emissions in developing countries grow, and air quality standards in industrial countries are tightened. Global Sources of Local Pollution examines the impact of the long-range transport of four key air pollutants (ozone, particulate matter, mercury, and persistent organic pollutants) on air quality and pollutant deposition in the United States. It also explores the environmental impacts of U.S. emissions on other parts of the world. The book recommends that the United States work with the international community to develop an integrated system for determining pollution sources and impacts and to design effective response strategies. This book will be useful to international, federal, state, and local policy makers responsible for understanding and managing air pollution and its impacts on human health and well-being.
Author : Howard William Reeves
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1993
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 1975-12
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Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Development
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Environmental engineering
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Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Page : 1378 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
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Category : Medicine
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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Author : Tarek A. Kassim
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2001-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540416500
Growth in the numbers of organic chemicals during recent decades has been extraordinary. Most are complex compounds that are released directly and/or indirectly to the surrounding environment. A view is emerging in relation to environmental protection and hazardous substance management that (1) some organic chemicals and/or organic leachates from solid waste materials and contaminated sediment/soil sites are of such extreme environmental concern that all use should be highly controlled including isolation for disposal; and (2) most hazardous substances are of sufficient social value that their continual use, production and disposal are justified. For these chemicals their types, sources, fate, behavior, effects and remediation at solid- aqueous phase interfaces must be fully assessed and understood. This assessment and understanding are essential for society to accept risks of adverse ecological or human health effects.
Author : Tomasz Puzyn
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9533079177
Ten years after coming into force of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), a wide range of organic chemicals (industrial formulations, plant protection products, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, etc.) still poses the highest priority environmental hazard. The broadening of knowledge of organic pollutants (OPs) environmental fate and effects, as well as the decontamination techniques, is accompanied by an increase in significance of certain pollution sources (e.g. sewage sludge and dredged sediments application, textile industry), associated with a potential generation of new dangers for humans and natural ecosystems. The present book addresses these aspects, especially in the light of Organic Pollutants risk assessment as well as the practical application of novel analytical methods and techniques for removing OPs from the environment. Providing analytical and environmental update, this contribution can be particularly valuable for engineers and environmental scientists.
Author : James R. Boydston
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Chemical industry
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Author : Donald Mackay
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2006-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781566706872
Transport and transformation processes are key for determining how humans and other organisms are exposed to chemicals. These processes are largely controlled by the chemicals’ physical-chemical properties. This new edition of the Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Chemicals is a comprehensive series in four volumes that serves as a reference source for environmentally relevant physical-chemical property data of numerous groups of chemical substances. The handbook contains physical-chemical property data from peer-reviewed journals and other valuable sources on over 1200 chemicals of environmental concern. The handbook contains new data on the temperature dependence of selected physical-chemical properties, which allows scientists and engineers to perform better chemical assessments for climatic conditions outside the 20–25-degree range for which property values are generally reported. This second edition of the Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Chemicals is an essential reference for university libraries, regulatory agencies, consultants, and industry professionals, particularly those concerned with chemical synthesis, emissions, fate, persistence, long-range transport, bioaccumulation, exposure, and biological effects of chemicals in the environment. This resource is also available on CD-ROM