Industrial Environmental Chemistry

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Strategies for the Protection of the Environment

   1. Introduction: Strategies for the Protection of the Environment

      • Donald T. Sawyer, Arthur E. Martell

      Pages 1-2

3. Waste Minimization

   1. Practical Techniques for Reducing Waste

      • Kenneth E. Nelson

      Pages 3-17

   2. Warr — Implementing a Waste and Release Reduction Strategy

      • James A. Conner

      Pages 19-24

   3. Waste Minimization by Process Modification

      • J. R. Hopper, C. L. Yaws, T. C. Ho, M. Vichailak, A. Muninnimit

      Pages 25-43

   4. Kinetic Models to Predict and Control Minor Constituents in Process Reactions

      • Selim Senkam

      Pages 45-64

   5. Kinetic Control of by-Product Reactions with In Situ Distillation in a Continuous Flow Device

      • Robert P. Shirtum

      Pages 65-70

   6. Waste Minimization and Remediation in the Metal Finishing Industries

      • Clifford W. Walton, Kevin S. Briggs, Kevin J. Loos

      Pages 71-87

   7. The Role of Catalysis in Industrial Waste Reduction

      • David Allen

      Pages 89-98

   8. Catalysis, the Atom Utilization Concept and Waste Minimization

      • R. A. Sheldon

      Pages 99-119

   9. Industrial Scale Membrane Processes

      • James R. Fair

      Pages 121-133

   10. Novel Microporous Membrane-Based Separation Processes for Pollution Control and Waste Minimization

       • Chang H. Yun, Asim K. Guha, Ravi Prasad, Kamalesh K. Sirkar

       Pages 135-146

   11. Ion Exchange for Glyphosate Recovery

       • Lowell R. Smith, Jane L. Barclay

       Pages 147-152

4. Remediation of Hazardous Wastes

   1. Supercritical Extraction in Environmental Remediation and Restoration

      • Aydin Akgerman

      Pages 153-169

   2. Ozone for Waste Remediation and Waste Water Treatment

      • Henry J. Ledon

      Pages 171-180

   3. Nucleophilic and Reductive Remediation Strategies for Hazardous Halogenated Hydrocarbons (PCBs, HCB, PCP, TCE, CCl4, DCBP, EDB, DDT, AND DDE)

      • Donald T. Sawyer, Paul K. S. Tsang, Seungwon Jeon, Marjorie Nicholson

      Pages 181-212

   4. Process Technology for Hazardous Waste Remediation — (KPEGsm and Reductive Technologies)

      • Robert Hoch

      Pages 213-227

   5. A New Membrane Process for Recovering Organics from Aqueous Wastes

      • S. V. Ho

      Pages 229-245

   6. Application of Immobilized Cell Technology for Biotreatment of Industrial Waste Streams

      • Daniel E. Edwards, Michael A. Heitkamp

      Pages 247-259

   7. Membrane-Bound Microorganisms for Removing Organisms and Metals

      • S. S. Sofer

      Pages 261-272

This monograph consists of manuscripts submitted by invited speakers who participated in the symposium "Industrial Environmental Chemistry: Waste Minimization in Industrial Processes and Remediation of Hazardous Waste," held March 24-26, 1992, at Texas A&M University. This meeting was the tenth annual international symposium sponsored by the Texas A&M Industry-University Cooperative Chemistry Program (IUCCP). The program was developed by an academic-industrial steering committee consisting of the co-chairmen, Professors Donald T. Sawyer and Arthur E. Martell of the Texas A&M University Chemistry Department, and members appointed by the sponsoring companies: Bernie A. Allen, Jr., Dow Chemical USA; Kirk W. Brown, Texas A&M University; Abraham Clearfield, Texas A&M University; Greg Leyes, Monsanto Company; Jay Warner, Hoechst-Celanese Corporation; Paul M. Zakriski, BF Goodrich Company; and Emile A. Schweikert, Texas A&M University (IUCCP Coordinator). The subject of this conference reflects the interest that has developed in academic institutions and industry for technological solutions to environmental contamination by industrial wastes. Progress is most likely with strategies that minimize waste production from industrial processes. Clearly the key to the protection and preservation of the environment will be through R&D that optimizes chemical processes to minimize or eliminate waste streams. Eleven of the papers are directed to waste minimization. An additional ten papers discuss chemical and biological remediation strategies for hazardous wastes that contaminate soils, sludges, and water.

• chemistry
• environment
• environmental chemistry
• environmental contamination
• hazardous waste
• hydrocarbons
• ecotoxicology

• Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

  Donald T. Sawyer, Arthur E. Martell

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