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Environmental problems are becoming an important aspect of our lives as industries grow apace with populations throughout the world. Thermodynamics, Solubility and Environmental Issues highlights some of the problems and shows how chemistry can help to reduce these them. The unifying theme is Solubility – the most basic and important of thermodynamic properties. This informative book looks at the importance and applications of solubility and thermodynamics, in understanding and in reducing chemical pollution in the environment. Written by experts in their respective fields and representing the latest findings in this very important and broad area. A collection of twenty-five chapters cover a wide range of topics including; mining, polymer manufacture and applications, radioactive wastes, industries in general, agro-chemicals, soil pollution and biology, together with the basic theory and recent developments in the modelling of environmental pollutants.
For consultants, industrial/local authority scientists, researchers and graduate and post-graduate students
Basic Theory and
Modelling
Chapter 1: An introduction to
modelling of pollutants in the
environment
(T.M. Letcher).
Chapter 2: Modelling the
solubility in water of environmentally
important
organic compounds (E. Estrada
et al.).
Chapter 3: Modeling of
contaminant leaching (M. Diaz, D. Apul).
Industry and
Mining
Chapter 4: Supercritical
fluids and reductions in environmental
pollution
(K. Yamanaka, H. Ohtaki).
Chapter 5: Phase equilibrium
studies on ionic liquid systems for
industrial
separation processes of
complex organic mixtures (P. Reddy, T.M.
Letcher).
Chapter 6: Environmental and
solubility issues related to novel
corrosion
control (W.J. van Ooij, P.
Puomi).
Chapter 7: The behaviour of
iron and aluminum in acid mine drainage:
speciation, mineralogy, and
environmental significance (J.S.
España).
Radioactive
Wastes
Chapter 8: An evaluation of
solubility limits on maximum uranium
concentrations
in groundwater (T. Iwatsuki,
R.C. Arthur).
Chapter 9 : Leaching from
cementitious materials used in
radioactive
waste disposal sites (K.
Yokozeki).
Air, Water, Soil
and Remediation
Chapter 10: Solubility of
carbon dioxide in natural systems (J.
Salminen
et al.).
Chapter 11: Estimation of the
volatilization of organic chemicals from
soil (E. Voutsas).
Chapter 12: Solubility and the
phytoextraction of arsenic from soils
by two different fern species
(V. Campos).
Chapter 13: Environmental
issues of gasoline additives –
aqueous
solubility and spills (J.
Bergendahl).
Chapter 14: Ecotoxicity of
ionic liquids in an aquatic environment
(D.
Pieraccini et al.).
Chapter 15: Rhamnolipid
biosurfactants: solubility and
environmental
issues (C.N. Mulligan).
Chapter 16: Sorption,
lipophilicity and partitioning phenomena
of ionic
liquids in environmental
systems (P. Stepnowski).
Chapter 17: The solubility of
hydroxyaluminosilicates and the
biological
availability of aluminium (C.
Exley).
Chapter 18: Apatite group
minerals: solubility and environmental
remediation
(M.C.F. Magalhães, P.A.
Williams).
Polymer Related
Issues
Chapter 19: Solubility of
gases and vapors in polylactide polymers
(R.A.
Auras).
Chapter 20: Biodegradable
material obtained from renewable
resource:plasticized
sodium caseinate films (J-L.
Audic et al.).
Chapter 21: Supercritical
carbon dioxide as a green solvent for
polymer
synthesis (C.D. Wood et al.).
Chapter 22: Solubility of
plasticizers, polymers and environmental
pollution
(E. Bia?ecka Florjan'czyk, Z.
Florjan'czyk).
Pesticides and
Pollution Exposure in
Humans
Chapter 23: Solubility issues
in environmental pollution (A. Arce, A.
Soto).
Chapter 24: Hazard
identification and human exposure to
pesticides (A.
Garrido Frenich et al.).
Chapter 25: Solubility and
body fluids (E. Königsberger, LC
Königsberger).
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