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Hazardous waste management

Provides a useful introduction to hazardous waste management, with information on methods of treatment, disposal, and site remediation. This book discusses the changes in the field, such as changes in emphasis from site assessments to site remediation, from new facility siting to pollution preventio...

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Main Authors: LaGrega, Michael D. (Author), Buckingham, Phillip L. (Author), Evans, Jeffrey C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston McGraw-Hill 2001
Edition:Second edition, international edition
Series:McGraw-Hill series in water resources and environmental engineering
Subjects:
Hazardous wastes > Management
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Table of Contents:
  • pt.I. Fundamentals
  • Hazardous Waste
  • The Legal Framework
  • Process Fundamentals
  • Fate and Transport of Contaminants
  • Toxicology
  • pt.II. Current Management Practices
  • Environmental Audits
  • Pollution Prevention
  • Facility Development and Operations
  • pt.III. Treatment and Disposal Methods
  • Physicochemical Processes
  • Biological Methods
  • Stabilization and Solidification
  • Thermal Methods
  • Land Disposal
  • pt.IV. Site Remediation
  • Quantitative Risk Assessment
  • Site and Subsurface Characterization
  • Remedial Technologies
  • Evaluation and Selection of Remedial Actions and Corretive Measures

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