Tang W.Z. Physicochemical Treatment of Hazardous Wastes

CRC Press, 2004. — 582 p. — ISBN: 1-56676-927-2.A host of questions confront environmental professionals dealing with treatment of hazardous wastes. For example, what is the nature of the pollutants? What is the contaminated media? What is the concentration of each pollutant? While all these issues are important, it is essential to assess the treatability of each pollutant before a process can be properly selected and designed. To meet this need, Physicochemical Treatment of Hazardous Wastes systematically examines the treatability of hazardous wastes by different physicochemical treatment processes according to the Quantitative Structure and Activity Relationship (QSAR) between kinetic rate constants and molecular descriptors. The author explains the degradation kinetics and mechanisms of organic pollutants in terms of elementary reactions.