Waste Treatment in the Process Industries

Increasing demand on industrial capacity has, as an unintended consequence, an accompanying increase in harmful and hazardous wastes. Recognizing the need for a comprehensive reference on the technologies and strategies available for waste treatment in specific industries, four esteemed editors gathered to produce the highly popular Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment. Derived from the second edition of this handbook, Waste Treatment in the Process Industries outlines the fundamentals and latest developments in waste treatment in various process industries, such as pharmaceuticals, textiles, rubber, and power. It also includes management, disposal, and bioassay issues for a complete treatment.

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 future trends for the process industry. It includes extensive bibliographies for each type of industrial process waste treatment or practice, invaluable information to anyone who needs to trace, follow, duplicate, or improve on a specific process waste treatment practice. A quick scan of the chapters and contributors reveals the depth and breadth of the book's coverage. It provides technical and economical information on how to develop the most feasible total environmental control program that can benefit both process industry and local municipalities.

IMPLEMENTATION OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY FOR INDUSTRIAL HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT, L.K. Wang and Donald B. AulenbachIntroductionDefinitions of Industrial EcologyGoal, Role, and ObjectivesApproach and ApplicationsTasks, Steps, and Framework for ImplementationQualifications of Industrial EcologistsSustainable Agriculture, Industry, and EnvironmentZero Emission, Zero Discharge, Cleaner Production, Waste Minimization, Pollution Prevention, Design for Environment, Material Substitution, Dematerialization, and Process SubstitutionCase Histories of Successful Hazardous Waste Management Through Industrial Ecology ImplementationBIOASSAY OF INDUSTRIAL AND HAZARDOUS WASTE POLLUTANTS, S.Y. Selivanovskaya, V.Z. Latypova, N.Y. Stepanova, and Y.-T. HungIntroductionGeneral ConsiderationsMicrobial TestsTests with Fauna SpeciesAlgae TestsPlant TestsCommercial Standard Bioassays: Toxkit TestsApplication of the Bioassays for Assessment of Toxicity of Solid WasteApplication of the Bioassays for Regulatory Requirements of EffluentsConclusionsIN-PLANT MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL OF INDUSTRIAL HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES, L.K. WangIntroductionManagement of Environmental Hazards at Industrial SitesManagement of Air Quality at Industrial SitesManagement of Water Quality at Industrial SitesManagement of Hazardous Solid Wastes at Industrial SitesDisposal of Hazardous AsbestosMonitoring and Analysis of Air, Water, and Contaminated MaterialsHazardous Waste Generator Status and Regulatory RequiementsStorage Tank Inspection and Leak DetectionEmergency Preparation and ResponseManagement of an Industrial Site Classified as a Very Small Quantity GeneratorManagement of an Industrial Classified as a Large Quantity Generator or a Small Quantity GeneratorManagement of Hazardous Industrial Waste from Medical Offices: An ExampleManagement of Hazardous Industrial Wastes from Graphic Arts, Printer, And Photographers: An ExampleRecycling of Hazardous Industrial Wastes as Waste-Derived FuelsAPPLICATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT, J.-H. Tay, S.T.-L. Tay, V. Ivanov, and Y.-T. HungBiotreatability of Industrial Hazardous WastesAerobic, Anaerobic, and Combined Anaerobic Aerobic Biotechnological TreatmentEnhanced Biotechnological Treatment of Industrial Hazardous WastesTREATMENT OF PHARMACEUTICAL WASTES, S.K. Gupta, S.K. Gupta, and Y.-T. HungIntroductionCategorization of the Pharmaceutical IndustryProcess Description and Waste CharacteristicsSignificant Parameters in Pharmaceutical Wastewater TreatmentWaste Recovery and ControlTreatment of Pharmaceutical WastewaterOperational Problems and Remedial MeasuresEnvironmental Protection Agency Effluent Limitations for the Pharmaceutical IndustrySummary and ConclusionsTREATMENT OF OILFIELD AND REFINERY WASTES, J.M. Wong and Y.-T. HungOil ProductionOil RefiningWaste Sources and CharacteristicsEnvironmental RegulationsControl and Treatment Techniques for Oilfield WastesIn-Plant Control and Treatment Techniques for Refinery WastesPollution Prevention and Hazardous Waste MinimizationTREATMENT OF SOAP AND DETERGENT INDUSTRY WASTES, C. Yapijakis and L.K. WangIntroductionImpacts of Detergent Production and UseCurrent Perspective and Future OutlookIndustrial Operation and WastewaterU.S. Code of Federal RegulationsWastewater Control and TreatmentCase Studies of Treatment FacilitiesTREATMENT OF TEXTILE WASTES, T. Bechtold and Y.T. HungIdentification and Classification of Textile WastesFiber-Specific ProcessesEnd-of-Pipe Treatment TechnologiesTREATMENT OF PHOSPHATE INDUSTRY WASTES, C. Yapijakis and L.K. WangIntroductionIndustrial Operations and WastewatersImpacts of Phosphate Industry PollutionU.S. Code of Federal RegulationsWastewater Control and TreatmentCase Studies of Treatment FacilitiesTREATMENT OF PULP AND PAPER MILL WASTES, S. Sumathi and Y.-T. HungPollution Problems of Pulp and Paper IndustriesNature and Composition of Raw Materials Used by Pulp and Paper IndustriesPulping ProcessesComposition of Spent Pulping LiquorsToxicity of Pulping LiquorsPulp Bleaching ProcessesToxicity of Spent Bleach LiquorsStrategies for Pollution Control in Pulp and Paper IndustriesPollution Reduction Through Plant Process ModificationsTreatment of Pulp and Paper WastewatersTreatment of Waste Gas Emissions From Pulp and Paper IndustriesTREATMENT OF PESTICIDE INDUSTRY WASTES, J.M. WongIntroductionThe Pesticide IndustryWaste CharacteristicsEnvironmental RegulationsControl and Treatment for Pesticide Manufacturing WastesControl and Treatment for Pesticide Formulating WastesTREATMENT OF RUBBER INDUSTRY WASTES, J.R. Taricska, L.K. Wang, Y.-T. Hung, J.-H. Tay, and K.H. LiIndustry DescriptionPlant-Specific DescriptionPollutant RemovabilityTreatment MethodsTreatment Technology CostsTREATMENT OF POWER INDUSTRY WASTES, L.K. WangIntroductionIndustry and SubdivisionsWastewaterWaste TreatmentTreatment Technology CostsPlant-Specific Examples

Lawrence K. Wang, Yung-Tse Hung, Howard H. Lo, Constantine Yapijakis