Environmental Organic Chemistry for Engineers

ISBN-13: 9780128044926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 538 str.

James G. Speight

Opis

Environmental Organic Chemistry for Engineers clearly defines the principles of environmental organic chemistry and the role they play in forming remediation strategies. In this reference, the author explores parameter estimation methods, the thermodynamics, and kinetics needed to predict the fate, transports, and reactivity of organic compounds in air, water, and soils. The book's four part treatment starts with the classification of organic molecules and physical properties of natural organic matter, halocarbons, phenols, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, organophosphates, and surfactants. An overview of remediation technologies and a discussion of the interactions that lead to physical properties that affect chemical distribution in the environment is also detailed, as are the important reaction classes of organic molecules, including substituent effects and structure and activity relationships found in Part Two and Three. Part four is devoted to the strengths and weaknesses of different remediation technologies and when they should be employed.

• Clearly defines the principles of environmental organic chemistry and the role they play in forming remediation strategies
• Includes the tools and methods for classifying environmental contaminants found in air, water, and soil
• Presents a wide-range of remediation technologies and when they should be deployed for maximum effect

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Chemicals and the Environment

Chapter 2: Organic Chemistry

Chapter 3: Industrial Organic Chemistry

Chapter 4: Sources and Types of Organic Pollutants

Chapter 5: Properties of Organic Compounds

Chapter 6: Introduction Into the Environment

Chapter 7: Chemical Transformations in the Environment

Chapter 8: Environmental Regulations

Chapter 9: Removal of Organic Compounds From the Environment

O autorze

Dr. Speight has more than fifty years of experience in areas associated with the properties and processing of conventional and synthetic fuels. He has participated in, as well as led, significant research in defining the use of chemistry of tar sand bitumen, heavy oil, conventional petroleum, natural gas, coal, oil shale, and biomass as well as work related to corrosion and corrosion prevention. He has founded and/or edited several international journals, most recently the Proceedings of the Oil Gas Scientific Research Project Institute, Azerbaijan, and Petroleum Science and Technology (Taylor & Francis, until 2020).
Dr. Speight is an author/editor of several databases and encyclopedic works. He has also authored more than 95 books as well as more than 400 publications, reports, and presentations detailing these research activities, and has taught more than eighty related courses.