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This award-winning, four-volume set examines the impact of energy production technologies on the environment. In 235 articles, the A-to-Z work covers such topics as acid rain, air pollution, aircraft fuel, building systems coal combustion, computer applications for energy efficient systems, risk assessment, solar heating, waste management planning, water power, and more. This first in the Wiley Encyclopedia Series in Environmental Science, this valuable resource features extensive illustration, photographs, tables, and a list of environmental and conversion organizations.

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ATTILIO BISIO is a principal in ATRO ASSOCIATES, a consulting firm specializing in the development and evaluation of petroleum refining and petrochemical processes. In recent years, he has focused on the development of fuel and petrochemical products that will meet anticipated regulatory requirements. Mr. Bisio was an engineering advisor and program manager at Exxon’s Corporate Research Laboratory.  There he was responsible for the initial commercialization of the FLEXSORB gas treating and the MARCH isomer separating processes.  Previously, he was an engineering manager with EXXON and FMC, and technical superintendent at SOCABU (France), a butyl rubber manufacturing plant. In 1992-93, Mr. Bisio was a Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia at the Standards & Industrial Research Institute (SIRIM). He holds an MS in chemical engineering from Columbia University, did graduate study in economics at the New York University Graduate School of Business, and attended the Executive Development Program at the Cornell University Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Bisio has written a score of articles, three books and was the editor of CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PROGRESS. He edited the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENERGY TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, published by John Wiley in 1995.

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