Overview
TheI&ECSYMPOSIUMfromwhichthisvolumewasderivedfeatured519presen- tationsat88technicalsessionsduringathree-daymeetingonSeptember17-20, 1996in Birmingham,Alabamawith580registrants. Thefinalselectionsforthechaptersincluded hereinwerebasedonpeerreview,scientificmerit,theeditors'perceptionsoflastingvalue orinnovativefeatures, andthegeneralapplicabilityofeitherthetechnologyitselforthe scientificmethodsandscholarlydetailsprovidedbytheauthors. Thevolume isacontinuationofathemeinitiatedin 1990. Itspredecessors,Emerg- ing Technologies in Hazardous Waste Management, ACS Symposium Series No. 422 (1990), EmergingTechnologiesinHazardous WasteManagementII,ACSSymposiumSe- ries No. 468 (1991), Emerging Technologies in Hazardous WasteManagement III, ACS SymposiumSeriesNo. 518(1993), EmergingTechnologiesinHazardous WasteManage- mentIV, ACSSymposium Series No. 554 (1994),Emerging Technologies in Hazardous WasteManagement V. ACSSymposiumSeriesNo. 607(1995), andEmergingTechnolo- gies in Hazardous Waste Management VI, American AcademyofEnvironmental Engi- neersPublication (1996), arerelatedcontributionsonhazardouswastemanagement,but eachvolumeisessentiallydifferent. Byinspection,thereadermayquicklyrecognizethis diversity,andalsoconcludethatnosinglevolumecandojusticetothebreadthanddepth oftechnologiesbeingdevelopedandappliedinpractice. Thecontributionspresented in thisvolumearedivided intofourseparatebutcom- plementary sections, including: (1) Chemical and Thermal Treatment; (2) Biochemical Treatment;(3)SeparationTechnologies;and(4)RadioactiveWasteTreatment. D. WilliamTedder FrederickG. Pohland GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology UniversityofPittsburgh Atlanta, Georgia30332-0100 Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania15261-2294 v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Industrial & Engineering Chemistry (I&EC) Division ofACS organized and sponsored the symposium. ACS Corporate Associates was a majorfinancial cosponsor; theAmericanInstituteofChemicalEngineers(AIChE)EnvironmentalSciencesDivision, theAIChECenterforWasteReductionTechnologies,theAmericanAcademyofEnviron- mental Engineers,andtheJointAssociationfor theAdvancementsofSupercriticalFluid Technologywerenominalcosponsors;andEnviroExpocositedanexhibition. Thisgener- osity was essential to the overall successofthe symposium and is gratefully acknow- ledged. vii CONTENTS I. EmergingTechnologiesinHazardousWasteManagementVII:AnOverview...FrederickG. PohlandandD. WilliamTedder ChemicalandThermalMethods 2. GranularIronOxideasaCatalystinChemicalOxidationofOrganic Contaminants...9 MiratD. Gurol,Shu-SungLin,andNileshBhat 3. AnElectronBeamGeneratedPlasmaReactorforDecompositionof HalogenatedVOCs 23 S. A. Vitale, K. Hadidi,D. R. Cohn, L. Bromberg,andP. Falkos 4. IncinerationandThermalTreatmentofChemicalAgentsandChemicalWeapons 33 F. C. GouldinandE. M. Fisher 5. PredictingStabilityConstantsofVariousChelatingAgentsUsingQSAR Technology 49 R. W. Okey,S. Lin,andP. K. A. Hong 6. MineralizationofHazardousChemicalsbyHemeReaction ...69 GuyoungKang,JimoJung,KapsongPark,andDavidK. Stevens BiochemicalTreatment 7. AnaerobicTransformationsofCarbonTetrachloride:CombinedBacterialand AbioticProcesses 81 FlynnW. Picardal,SanggooKim,AnnaRadue,andDeberaBackhus 8. BiorecoveryofMetalsfromAcidMineDrainage...91 RakeshGovind,UmaKumar,RamaPuligadda,JimmyAntia,and HenryTabak ix x Contents 9. BiotreatmentofMinewater-ContainingCyanidesbyUsingImmobilizedCell Technology 103 Onguri K. Vijaya,G. R. V. Babu,JackAdams,JamesH. Wolfram,and KiritD. Chapatwala 10. Augmentationofin-SituSubsoilRemediationUsingColloidalGasDispersions 113 P. G. Chaphalkar,K. T. Valsaraj,D. Roy, W. D. Constant,andP. Lee 11. EffectofSorptionontheMicrobialReductiveDechlorinationofSoil-Bound Chloroalkenes 127 SpyrosG. PavlostathisandPingZhuang SeparationTechnologies 12. TheRemovalofVOCsfromExhaustAirandVapourCondensatesby MembraneProcesses ...
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Author: D. William Tedder ,
Frederick G. Pohland
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition: 1998 ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 1.150kg
ISBN: 9780306457739
ISBN 10: 0306457733
Pages: 227
Publication Date: 28 February 1998
Audience:
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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