Managing Hazardous Air Pollutants: State of the Art

ISBN-13: 9780873718660 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 608 str.

Winston Chow;Katherine Connor

Opis

Managing Hazardous Air Pollutants presents a detailed examination of the state-of-the-art in the management of air pollutants ("air toxics"). This important new volume focuses on the latest research, regulatory perspectives, modeling, environmental and human risk assessments, new control strategies, monitoring programs, risk communication, and risk management. Key chapters in the book are devoted to these timely subjects:

Spis treści

General Session: Conference on Managing Hazardous Air Pollutants: Keynote Address (S. Peck). National Trends in Air Toxics Policy (M. Shapiro). The California Experience in Toxic Air Pollutant Control (J.S. Lagarias, C.B. Suer, P.D. Venturini, and D.J. Ames). Implications of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments for the Utility Industry (L.B. Zeugin). Control of Hazardous Air Pollutants in OECD Countries: Comparative Policy Analysis (P. Wiederkehr). The Impact of Recent Legislation on the U.K. Generation Industry (H.E. Evans and W.S. Kyte). Air Toxics: The Research Challenge of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (F.T. Princiotta and D.G. McKinney). Emissions Sources: An Overview of CARB-Adopted Source Test Methods for Toxic Compounds and Results of Testing Natural Gas-Fired Utility Boilers (D.F. Todd and W.V. Loscutoff). Trace Element of Commercial Coals (E.L. Obermiller, V.B. Conrad, and J. Lengyel). Assessment of Air Pollutants from Coal Utilization Plant (P. Sage and R.J. Gemmill). Low Level Emission of Hazardous Organic Pollutants from Coal-Fired Power Plants-Fact or Artifact? (K.E. Curtis, N. Krishnamurthy, and S.J. Thorndyke). Comprehensive Assessment of Toxic Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants (T.D. Brown, C.E. Schmidt, and A. Radziwon). Determination of the Level of Hazardous Air Pollutants and Other Trace Constituents in the Syngas from the Shell Coal Gasification Process (D.C. Baker, W.V. Bush, and K.R. Loos). Air Toxics Monitoring Issues (R.M. Mann, A.G. Eklund, C.M. Thompson, W. Chow, and B. Nott). Mercury Speciation in Flue Gases: Overcoming the Analytical Difficulties (N.S. Bloom). Atmospheric Chemistry, Measurements, and Models: Ambient Air Monitoring for Mercury around an Industrial Complex (R.R. Turner and M.A. Bogle). Sources and Chemistry of Chlorides in the Troposphere: A Review (P. Saxena, P.K. Mueller, and L.M. Hildemann). Ambient Air Toxics Data from California's Toxic Air Contaminant Monitoring Program (W.V. Loscutoff and M.W. Poore). Compari

O autorze

Chow\, Winston; Connor\, Katherine