Pollution Prevention and Control Part I

PollutionPreventionandControl:
PartI
HumanHealthandEnvironmentalQuality
PaulMacBerthouex;LinfieldC.Brown

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Pollution Prevention and Control: Part I
Human Health and Environmental Quality

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Pollution Prevention and Control: Part I
Human Health and Environmental Quality
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© 2013 Paul Mac Berthouex & Linield C. Brown & bookboon.com
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Pollution Prevention and Control: Part I
Human Health and Environmental Quality

Contents

Contents
Preface

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1

he Strategy of Pollution Control Engineering

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1.1

Our Round River

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1.2

A Preview of his Book

14

1.3

he Fallacy of Zero Emissions

14

1.4

he Integration of Pollution Control

17

1.5

An Integrated Approach to Design

21

1.6

he Integrated Approach to Learning Pollution Control Engineering

23

2

he Engineering Design Process

24

2.1

Deining the Design Problem

24

2.2

Identifying the Alternatives

28

2.3

Voluntary Pollution Prevention by Industry

29

2.4

Designing for Pollution Prevention

30

2.5

Green Chemistry

31

2.6

Savings from Pollution Prevention

32

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Pollution Prevention and Control: Part I
Human Health and Environmental Quality

Contents

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Selecting the Best Design

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2.8

Conclusion

34

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he Environmental System

35

3.1

Environmental Cycles and Environmental Stability

35

3.2

he Water Cycle

36

3.3

he Natural Carbon Cycle

40

3.4

he Industrial Carbon Cycle

42

3.5

Essential Nutrients

43

3.6

he Nitrogen Cycle

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3.7

he Phosphorus Cycle

46

3.8

he Sulfur Cycle

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3.9

Conclusion

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Toxicity and Aquatic Water Quality Criteria

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4.1

Toxicity

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4.2

Toxic Chemicals and Efects

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4.3

Aquatic Bioassays

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4.4

Water Quality Criteria for Toxic Chemicals

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4.5

Site-Speciic Water Quality Criteria

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