Increasing demand on industrial capacity has, as an unintended consequence,
produced an accompanying increase in harmful and hazardous wastes. Derived from
the second edition of the popular Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes
Treatment, Waste Treatment in the Process Industries outlines the fundamentals
and latest developments in waste treatment in various process industries, such
as pharmaceuticals, textiles, petroleum, soap, detergent, phosphate, paper,
pulp, pesticides, rubber, and power. Comprehensive in scope, it provides
information that is directly applicable to daily waste management problems
throughout the industry.
The book contains in-depth discussions of environmental pollution sources, waste
characteristics, control technologies, management strategies, facility
innovations, process alternatives, costs, case histories, effluent standards,
and