Environmental chemistry

Chemical Warfare in NaturePesticides and other industrial chemicals are at the root of many pollution problems.

This book examines the underlying physical and chemical mechanisms driving climate imbalance through a rigorous quantitative analysis.

This book presents an overview of the techniques available today to remove arsenic contamination, pollutants, and species from water.

El presente libro es resultado de una investigacion que expone las consideraciones tecnicas y cientificas para el diseno de un nuevo reactor aerobico modificado a flujo piston y un sedimentador de flujo helicoidal para la remocion de contaminantes presentes en las aguas residuales.

La obtención del concreto con sus materias primas, el estudio de las estructuras resistentes y sus patologías, las instalaciones hidráulicas para conducir de una forma segura el agua, el estudio del suelo o la movilidad de las comunidades asociado a las vías y su construcción de forma segura, son algunos ejemplos en donde la química puede aportar al campo de conocimiento de la Ingeniería Civil.

Dieser praktische Ratgeber bietet eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Orientierung im komplexen Bereich der Nahrungsergänzungsmittel und Supplemente.

Este manual ofrece métodos sencillos y efectivos para preparar biocidas naturales que protegen los libros y materiales de biblioteca de las plagas sin dañar el ambiente o la salud de los bibliotecarios.

El tratamiento de aguas residuales por medio de los humedales artificiales se ha empleado por mas de 20 anos a nivel mundial.

Una de las características para definir los suelos ándicos es su origen volcánico, juventud y fragilidad.

Key Concepts in Environmental Chemistry provides a modern and concise introduction to environmental chemistry principles and the dynamic nature of environmental systems.

Imagina que bajo la alfombra de tu living escondes toda la basura que se generó en tu hogar durante un año.

Advanced Oxidation Processes for Micropollutant Remediation covers current state-of-the-art in advanced oxidation processes (AOP) for removal of micropollutants from industrial and pharmaceutical wastewater.

Advanced Oxidation Processes for Micropollutant Remediation covers current state-of-the-art in advanced oxidation processes (AOP) for removal of micropollutants from industrial and pharmaceutical wastewater.

Este libro presenta a estudiantes universitarios una visión moderna de la contaminación atmosférica, incluyendo aspectos básicos de ciencias de la Ingenierí­a y aplicados.

Dieses fundierte Lehrbuch führt systematisch in die faszinierende Chemie des Lebens ein und vermittelt die essentiellen Grundlagen der Biochemie und organischen Chemie für Medizinstudierende und interessierte Leser.

Los procesos químicos asociados al medio terrestre se describen aquí tratando de forma conjunta los fenómenos que ocurren en el suelo y en la hidrosfera.

Es claro que la sostenibilidad del planeta se debe lograr si la especie humana quiere sobrevivir con los estándares de vida actuales.

Dieser fundierte medizinische Ratgeber bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die vielfältigen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von Jod in der modernen Medizin.

Dieses umfangreiche Chemie Buch bietet eine strukturierte Einführung in die wichtigsten Bereiche der Chemie und eignet sich sowohl für Studienanfänger als auch fortgeschrittene Lernende.

Esta celebrada Química ambiental de Colin Baird y Michael Cann proporciona a los estudiantes los fundamentos necesarios para analizar las propiedades químicas y los procesos subyacentes de todas aquellas cuestiones ambientales que se tratan a diario en los medios de comunicación: cambio climático, contaminación, biocombustibles, sostenibilidad, y muchos más.

Land and Stream Salinity is a compilation of papers that review the state and knowledge of processes involved in land and stream salinity, and that consider its application in different environments.

Fundamental Aspects of Pollution Control and Environmental Science 1: Trace-Element Contamination of the Environment investigates the global biological consequences of dispersal of trace elements that are mined from localized limited deposits in the environment.

This volume examines the oxidation chemistry of carbon-based materials in more detail with emphasis on the technological phenomena that result from the attack of oxygen and the practical procedures developed to prevent them.

Inorganic Species, Part 1 separately considers the various inorganic and organic components that occur in water.

A cutting-edge science book in the style of 'Fermat's Last Theorem' and 'Chaos' from an exciting and accessible voice in popular science writing.

Environmental science is an integrated, interdisciplinary field that combines the study of ecology, physics, chemistry, biology, soil science, geology, atmospheric science, and geography.

Nanomaterials' unique properties offer revolutionary means to optimize a variety of products, including electronics, textiles, paintings and coatings, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products.

Soil and Water Contamination, Second Edition gives a structured overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contaminants.

The increasing awareness of the effects of pollutants in the eco-system and on the development of suitable methods of analysis has stimulated a lot of research recently.

Pollution of water sources with emerging contaminants (micropollutants) is a fact known worldwide.

The discussion on arsenic in the environment is complex and must grasp the importance of very many, mostly unrelated works on individual aspects.

Basic Concepts of Environmental Chemistry, Second Edition provides a theoretical basis for the behavior and biological effects of natural chemical entities and contaminants in natural systems, concluding with a practical focus on risk assessment and the environmental management of chemicals.

The second installment of the multivolume Handbook of Detergents deals with the potential environmental impact of detergents as a result of their production, formulation, usage, consumption, and disposal.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'If only chemistry had been like this at school' Matt Ridley, Prospect ________________Elements.

Key Concepts in Environmental Chemistry provides a modern and concise introduction to environmental chemistry principles and the dynamic nature of environmental systems.

Accidents involving reactive chemicals can often be prevented, or their effects alleviated, if those handling them have a sound knowledge both of their hazardous properties and of appropriate handling methods.

To achieve successful solutions to the problems resulting from local, distant and global radioactive fallout after nuclear explosions and accidents and to achieve successful retrospective analyses of the radiation conditions from recent observations, certain information is needed: the distribution of the exposure dose rate in the atmosphere and in a country; the distribution of radionuclides in natural environments and the nuclide composition of the radioactive fallout; the features of formation of the aerosol particle-carriers of the radioactivity and of the nuclide distribution of the particles of different sizes formed under different conditions; the processes involved in the migration of radioactive products in different zones and environments; the external and internal effects of nuclear radiation on human beings.

Over the last century and a half, groundwaters have become contaminated by a growing number of organic and inorganic substances ranging from petroleum-derived hydrocarbons to radioactive compounds, to cancer-causing hexavalent chromium.

Interest in marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) is very high because it plays an important role in oceanic and global carbon cycling, which in turn impacts weather.

Environmental Soil Chemistry illustrates fundamental principles of soil chemistry with respect to environmental reactions between soils and other natural materials and heavy metals, pesticides, industrial contaminants, acid rain, and salts.

This book is a must for individuals and companies that have an interest in developing sustainable technology and systems in the complex 'Web of Metals' on a first principles, technological and economic basis, with a focus to the minerals, metals and product manufacturing industries.