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Environmental engineers are primarily responsible for restoring hazardous waste sites to a condition where they will not cause adverse effect to human health and the environment and for creating a waste-handling architecture that prevents future industrial wastes from causing any damage. This book presents a roadmap for hazardous waste management. Beginning with the legal framework that defines what a hazardous waste is and when a waste becomes hazardous, a practicing engineer needs to have a general idea of environmental audits, toxicology, site characterization, treatment processes, and site-monitoring protocol. In addition, the toxic compounds of concern may partition into the soil, groundwater, and air. Thus, any attempt to deal with such a situation requires integration of law, science, technology, and social policy. This book guides the reader with the help of numerous solved examples with a clear goal of showing how these topics are integrated in practice.

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Sukalyan Sengupta is professor of environmental engineering in the civil and environmental engineering department at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. A registered professional engineer in Massachusetts, he has more than 22 years of academic and research experience in environmental engineering treatment processes. He is the editor of Remediation of Polluted Waters, Volume 3 of the Elsevier Series on Comprehensive Water Quality and Purification, 1st edition, released in October 2013. He is currently the section editor (Water Pollution) of Current Pollution Reports, a wide-ranging review journal published by Springer that covers significant developments in the field of environmental pollution.

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