Environmental Chemistry - Principles and Practices

This compact textbook book on environmental chemistry written for chemists and engineers covers the most important aspects of the topic: sustainability of processes, proper waste disposal, ethical decision making and green chemistry. Along these lines, the authors discuss issues of earth, water, air, fossil and alternative energy, and environmental toxicity.

List of contents

Advanced Chemistry Needed for Environmental Chemistry
- Analytical Chemistry, Instrumental Methods
- Statistical Analysis
- Organic Chemistry Overview for Environmental Applications
- Equilibrium and Redox
- Green Chemistry
Earth
- Natural Pollutants
- Land Reclamation
- Brownfields
- Hydrophobic Materials, and Sorption
- Organic Materials
- PAHs
- Plastics and Plasticizers
- CFCs
- PCBs
- Pesticides
- Metals 
Water
- Basics
- Desalination
- Reclamation and Remediation 
- Chelation
- Ocean Acidification
Air
- Air Components
- Greenhouse Effect
- Ozone Layer, Ozone Holes
- Smog (NOx, SOx)
- Particulate Matter
- Carbon Sequestration
Energy
- Fossil
- Coal
- Oil
- Fracking
- Wood
- Nuclear
- Renewables
- Solar
- Wind
- Geothermal
- Hydro
- Batteries  
- Climate Change
Toxicity
- Natural Pollutants
- Anthropogenic Pollutants
- Persistence
- Bioaccumulation/ Bio-augmentation
- Measurements

About the author

A. Rihana-Abdallah, M. Benvenuto, E. Roberts-Kirchhoff, K. Lanigan, K. Evans, University of Detroit Mercy, MI, USA.

Summary

This compact textbook book on environmental chemistry written for chemists and engineers covers the most important aspects of the topic: sustainability of processes, proper waste disposal, ethical decision making and green chemistry. Along these lines, the authors discuss issues of earth, water, air, fossil and alternative energy, and environmental toxicity.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Anthon Benvenuto, Mark Anthony Benvenuto, Kendra R. Evans, Katherine Lanigan, R, Alexa Rihana-Abdallah, Alexa N Rihana-Abdallah, Alexa N. Rihana-Abdallah, Elizabeth S. Roberts-Kirchhoff
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.04.2030
• EAN: 9783110443301
• ISBN: 978-3-11-044330-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Illustrations: 100 b/w and 150 col. ill., 50 b/w tbl.
• Series: De Gruyter Textbook; De Gruyter Graduate; De Gruyter STEM; De Gruyter Textbook; De Gruyter STEM
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; Chemie, Englisch, Umwelttechnik, Sustainability, Umweltwissenschaft, biotechnology, The environment, Chemical Engineering, Analytical Chemistry, Heat transfer processes, TEC009010 Technology & Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical, SCI010000 SCIENCE / Biotechnology, SCI013010 SCIENCE / Chemistry / Analytic, Ökologische Chemie