Hazardous Waste Management, Volume I

By Sukalyan Sengupta

Environmental engineers are primarily responsible for restoring hazardous waste sites to a condition where they will not cause adverse effect to human health and the environment and for creating a waste-handling architecture that prevents future industrial wastes from causing any damage. This book presents a roadmap for hazardous waste management. Beginning with the legal framework that defines what a hazardous waste is and when a waste becomes hazardous, a practicing engineer needs to have a general idea of environmental audits, toxicology, site characterization, treatment processes, and site-monitoring protocol. In addition, the toxic compounds of concern may partition into the soil, groundwater, and air. Thus, any attempt to deal with such a situation requires integration of law, science, technology, and social policy. This book guides the reader with the help of numerous solved examples with a clear goal of showing how these topics are integrated in practice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1945612886
• ISBN13: 9781945612886
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Momentum Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"