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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Speight has more than fifty years of experience in areas associated with the properties and processing of conventional and synthetic fuels. He has participated in, as well as led, significant research in defining the use of chemistry of tar sand bitumen, heavy oil, conventional petroleum, natural gas, coal, oil shale, and biomass as well as work related to corrosion and corrosion prevention. He has founded and/or edited several international journals, most recently the Proceedings of the Oil Gas Scientific Research Project Institute, Azerbaijan, and Petroleum Science and Technology (Taylor & Francis, until 2020). Dr. Speight is an author/editor of several databases and encyclopedic works. He has also authored more than 95 books as well as more than 400 publications, reports, and presentations detailing these research activities, and has taught more than eighty related courses. Written for Environmental Engineers, Civil Engineers and researchers, Environmental Organic Chemistry for Engineers clearly defines the principles of environmental organic chemistry and the role they play in forming remediation strategies. In this reference, the author explores parameter estimation methods, the thermodynamics, and kinetic needed to predict the fate, transports, and reactivity of organic compounds in air, water, and soils. Environmental Organic Chemistry for Engineers four part treatment starts with the classification of organic molecules and physical properties of natural organic matter, halocarbons, phenols, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, organophosphates, and surfactants. An overview of remediation technologies is also provided. This is followed by a discussion of the interactions that lead to physical properties that affect chemical distribution in the environment. As well as the important reaction classes of organic molecules including substituent effects and structure and activity relationships found in Parts two and three. Part four is devoted to the different remediation technologies strength and weakness and when they should be employed. ...
List of contents
Chapter 1: Chemicals and the Environment
Chapter 2: Organic Chemistry
Chapter 3: Industrial Organic Chemistry
Chapter 4: Sources and Types of Organic Pollutants
Chapter 5: Properties of Organic Compounds
Chapter 6: Introduction Into the Environment
Chapter 7: Chemical Transformations in the Environment
Chapter 8: Environmental Regulations
Chapter 9: Removal of Organic Compounds From the Environment
