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Reaction Mechanisms in Environmental Engineering: Analysis and Prediction describes the principles that govern chemical reactivity and demonstrates how these principles are used to yield more accurate predictions. The book will help users increase accuracy in analyzing and predicting the speed of pollutant conversion in engineered systems, such as water and wastewater treatment plants, or in natural systems, such as lakes and aquifers receiving industrial pollution. Using examples from air, water and soil, the book begins with a clear exposition of the properties of environmental and inorganic organic chemicals that is followed by partitioning and sorption processes and sorption and transformation processes.
Kinetic principles are used to calculate or estimate the pollutants' half-lives, while physical-chemical properties of organic pollutants are used to estimate transformation mechanisms and rates. The book emphasizes how to develop an understanding of how physico-chemical and structural properties relate to transformations of organic pollutants.
List of contents
Part 1: Introduction1. Introduction2. Environmental Organic Chemicals
Part 2: Partitioning and Sorption Processes3. Molecular Interactions, Partitioning, and Thermodynamics4. Vapor Pressure5. Aqueous Solubility and Activity Coefficients6. Air Water and Air Organic Solvent Partitioning7. Organic Water Partitioning8. Organic Acids and Bases
Part 1: Sorption and Transformation Processes9. Sorption Processes10. Thermodynamic and Kinetics of Transformation Reactions11. Hydrolysis and Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions12. Redox Transformations13. Photochemical and Photocatalytic Transformations14. Biological Transformations
