Waste Treatment in the Process Industries (Advances in Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 084937233X ISBN 13: 9780849372339

Publisher: CRC Press, 2005

Synopsis

Increasing demand on industrial capacity has, as an unintended consequence, produced an accompanying increase in harmful and hazardous wastes. Derived from the second edition of the popular Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment, Waste Treatment in the Process Industries outlines the fundamentals and latest developments in waste treatment in various process industries, such as pharmaceuticals, textiles, petroleum, soap, detergent, phosphate, paper, pulp, pesticides, rubber, and power. Comprehensive in scope, it provides information that is directly applicable to daily waste management problems throughout the industry. The book contains in-depth discussions of environmental pollution sources, waste characteristics, control technologies, management strategies, facility innovations, process alternatives, costs, case histories, effluent standards, and future trends for the process industry. It includes extensive bibliographies for each type of industrial process waste treatment or practice, invaluable information to anyone who needs to trace, follow, duplicate, or improve on a specific process waste treatment practice. A quick scan of the chapters and contributors reveals the depth and breadth of the book's coverage. It provides technical and economical information on how to develop the most feasible total environmental control program that can benefit both process industry and local municipalities.

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About the Author

Lawrence K. Wang, Yung-Tse Hung, Howard H. Lo, Constantine Yapijakis

From the Back Cover

Derived from the second edition of the popular Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment, Waste Treatment in the Process Industries outlines the fundamentals and of waste treatment in various process industries, such as pharmaceuticals, textiles, petroleum, soap, detergent, phosphate, paper, pulp, pesticides, rubber, and power. The editors provide information that is directly applicable to daily waste management problems throughout the industry. They include extensive bibliographies for each type of industrial process waste treatment or practice, invaluable information to anyone who needs to trace, follow, duplicate, or improve on a specific process waste treatment practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 084937233X
• ISBN 13: 9780849372339
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 648
• Editor: Wang Lawrence K., Hung Yung-Tse, Lo Howard H., Yapijakis Constantine