In dustrial and Hazardous Waste Treatment covers the latest trentment technologies available for the management and disposal of industrial and hazardous wastes generated by a wide range of industries. The most comprehensive book of its kind, this expert reference and teaching source.
- analyzes all types of industrial wastes, using detailed case studies and examples
- examines the mathematical and computer models available for the estimation of waste loads
- discussesall current methods for the treatment and elimination of wastes
- presents and defines the various types of wastes now being genetated
- explains how to write industrial environmental impact statements
- proposes new schemes for obtaining zero pollution from industry
The first part of the book contains basic facts about industrial and hazardous wastes, including information on the effects of wastes on the surrounding environment, and ways to guard against further pollution.
Readers will learn how to calculate the final treatment required before disposal of wastes into a receiving stream, how to sample the stream to ascertain the waste treatment required or the efficiency of existing treatment, and how decisions about pollution-abatement problems are inffluenced by the economics of waste treatment.
In the second part of Industrial and Hazardous Waste Treatment, the authors explore the theories and design of waste treatment, and discuss how wastes can be reduced by proper operation of manufacturing plants.
Detailed, step-by-step examples of problems and their solutions are given in the third part. The basic question underlying the case studies presented here is whether to treat industrial wastes separately or in conjunction with municipal sewage.
Individual sections on the major liquid industrial wastes are provided in the fourth and final part of the book. The authors classify all industries into six categories: apparel, food processing, materials, chemicals, energy, and non-point practices; they then evaluate the nature of wastes in each category, analyzing their origins, characteristics, and acceptable treatments. The volume also features appendices with provisions of the Amended Federal Water Pollution Control Act, covering National Standards of Performance, and the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System(NPDES).
Anthoritative and completely up-to-date, Industrial and Hazardous Waste Treatment will be of great interest to engineers, chemists, biologists, and environmentalists involved with pollution abatement programs industry, as well as to public officials and environmental engineering consultants concerned with waste treatment.
Nelson Leonard Nemerow is an internationally known consulting engineer with broad knowledge of water pollution and induatrial waste treatment. He is also Research Professor at the University of Miami and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Engineering at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. He is the author of 170 technical articles, as well as nine books, including Theories and Practices of Industrial Waste Treatment (1963), Liquid Wastes of Industry:Theories, Practice & Treatment (1971), Scientific Stream Pollution Analysis (1974), Industry Solid Waste(1983), and Stream, (1983), and Stream, Lake, Estuary, and Ocean Pollution (1985).
Chapter 1 Effect of Wastes on Streams and Waste-Water
Treatment Plants
Chapter 2 Stream protection Measures
Chapter 3 Computation of Organic waste
Chapter 4 Stream Sampling
Chapter 5 Economics of Waste Treatment
Chapter 6 Volume Reduction of wastes
Chapter 7 Strength Reduction
Chapter 8 neutralization
Chapter 9 Equalization and Proportioning
Chapter 10 Removal of Suspended Solids
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