Industrial Environmental Chemistry : Waste Minimization in Industrial Processes and Remediation of Hazardous Waste

This monograph consists of manuscripts submitted by invited speakers who participated in the symposium "Industrial Environmental Chemistry: Waste Minimization in Industrial Processes and Remediation of Hazardous Waste," held March 24-26, 1992, at Texas A & M University. This meeting was the tenth annual international symposium sponsored by the Texas A & M Industry-University Cooperative Chemistry Program (IUCCP). The program was developed by an academic-industrial steering committee consisting of the co-chairmen, Professors Donald T. Sawyer and Arthur E. Martell of the Texas A & M University Chemistry Department, and members appointed by the sponsoring companies: Bernie A. Allen, Jr., Dow Chemical USA; Kirk W. Brown, Texas A & M University; Abraham Clearfield, Texas A & M University; Greg Leyes, Monsanto Company; Jay Warner, Hoechst-Celanese Corporation; Paul M. Zakriski, BF Goodrich Company; and Emile A. Schweikert, Texas A & M University (IUCCP Coordinator). The subject of this conference reflects the interest that has developed in academic institutions and industry for technological solutions to environmental contamination by industrial wastes. Progress is most likely with strategies that minimize waste production from industrial processes. Clearly the key to the protection and preservation of the environment will be through R & D that optimizes chemical processes to minimize or eliminate waste streams. Eleven of the papers are directed to waste minimization. An additional ten papers discuss chemical and biological remediation strategies for hazardous wastes that contaminate soils, sludges, and water Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction: Strategies for the Protection of the Environment....Pages 1-2 Practical Techniques for Reducing Waste....Pages 3-17 Warr — Implementing a Waste and Release Reduction Strategy....Pages 19-24 Waste Minimization by Process Modification....Pages 25-43 Kinetic Models to Predict and Control Minor Constituents in Process Reactions....Pages 45-64 Kinetic Control of by-Product Reactions with In Situ Distillation in a Continuous Flow Device....Pages 65-70 Waste Minimization and Remediation in the Metal Finishing Industries....Pages 71-87 The Role of Catalysis in Industrial Waste Reduction....Pages 89-98 Catalysis, the Atom Utilization Concept and Waste Minimization....Pages 99-119 Industrial Scale Membrane Processes....Pages 121-133 Novel Microporous Membrane-Based Separation Processes for Pollution Control and Waste Minimization....Pages 135-146 Ion Exchange for Glyphosate Recovery....Pages 147-152 Supercritical Extraction in Environmental Remediation and Restoration....Pages 153-169 Ozone for Waste Remediation and Waste Water Treatment....Pages 171-180 Nucleophilic and Reductive Remediation Strategies for Hazardous Halogenated Hydrocarbons (PCBs, HCB, PCP, TCE, CCl 4 , DCBP, EDB, DDT, AND DDE)....Pages 181-212 Process Technology for Hazardous Waste Remediation — (KPEG sm and Reductive Technologies)....Pages 213-227 A New Membrane Process for Recovering Organics from Aqueous Wastes....Pages 229-245 Application of Immobilized Cell Technology for Biotreatment of Industrial Waste Streams....Pages 247-259 Membrane-Bound Microorganisms for Removing Organisms and Metals....Pages 261-272 Biofiltration: An Air Pollution Control Technology for Hydrogen Sulfide Emissions....Pages 273-287 Inorganic Ion Exchange Materials for Nuclear Waste Effluent Treatment....Pages 289-299 Back Matter....Pages 301-312 Proceedings of the Texas A&M University, IUCCP Tenth Annual Symposium on Industrial Environmental Chemistry held in College Station, Texas, March 24-26, 1992. Proceedings of the Texas A & M University, IUCCP Tenth Annual Symposium on Industrial Environmental Chemistry held in College Station, Texas, March 24-26, 1992