ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING - BROWNFIELDS pot

... nonprofit Environmental Coalition of South Seattle (ECOSS), which pro-vides direct, door-to-door assistance to manufac-turing and industrial businesses in environmental cleanup and pollution-prevention ... University of Cincinnati provides training and environmental- justice support and broadens community affiliations. COMMON AND LEGAL DEFINITIONS The EPA and other environmental- and health-protection ... the potential or confirmed existence of chemical(s) of concern.” The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Web page states, Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and...

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING - PLANNING pot

... legislation pro-vides a model for similar environmental scrutiny at the state and local level, thus providing a network of environmental planning at all levels of government. In terms of land use ... consultants and commerce and industry to under-stand and plan for communities with regard to population, transportation, housing, the economy and employment and a host of demographic and industrial ... federal government and conveyed to local govern-ments. State governments serve to administer federal pro-grams and assume responsibility for enforcement of some key planning and environmental responsibilities...

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING - AIR POLLUTANT EFFECTS pot

... competition.(HbCO)(HbO)210PCOPO22(HbCO) and (HbO2) are the concentrations of carboxyhemo-globin and oxyhemoglobin, and PCO and PO2 are the partial pressures of carbon monoxide and oxygen. Inspiration of air containing ... presence of different con-centrations of ambient carbon monoxide and the effect of various levels of activity on the rate of uptake are presented in Figure 2 and Figure 3.The level of HbCO ... daily and short-term patterns of the ambient concentrations, identification of the emitting sources, and design and implementation of strategies for their control. A detailed inventory of the...

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING - CHEMICAL EFFECTS: see EFFECTS OF CHEMICALS; AIR POLLUTANT EFFECTS; POLLUTION EFFECTS ON FISH CHEMICAL TREATMENT: see PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL TREATMENT OF WASTEWATERS potx

... rules and regula-tions under Section 3001 of the 1976 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act RCRA, must be conducted to determine the nature of the solid waste generated by the gasifica-tion of ... Overcoming both process engineering and environmental problems will be crucial factors in the development of coal liquefaction and gasification plants. Depending upon proj-ect size and complexity, ... nitrogen to ammonia and oxygen to water). According to Quig and Granger (1983), a coal conver-sion facility impacts the environment through the handling of large amounts of coal, and discharges...

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING - COMMUNITY HEALTHGENERAL pot

... elected board. The future of this once important resource of a city or county medical system is in jeopardy, threatened by growth of vol-untary, not-for-profit, and profit-making hospitals. Funding ... are simi-lar to those of industry and vary in size and complexity with the jurisdiction served. Pre-employment examinations and on-the-job injury care follow customary standards, and worker’s ... and services that give a community an iden-tity and allow it to serve the needs of its citizens. A cata-log of core services would include both governmental and non-governmental agencies and...

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING - ECOLOGY OF PRIMARY TERRESTRIAL CONSUMERS potx

... terms of number of individuals, biomass, and energy equivalence, of the quantity of herbivorous ani-mals present or produced over a period of time, the ener-getic cost of producing and maintaining ... are long-lived, slow-growing and have low rates of population increase, and by herbivores that are smaller, more numerous and faster-growing than their food plants. In con-trast, open-water ... the limited length of food-chains and in part by the unidirectional flow of energy in these chains. Food-webs are made up of two principal types of food-chains: grazing food-chains, which involve...

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING - ECOSYSTEM THEORY potx

... sim-plication of complex ecosystems provides the best hope for solutions of man’s environmental problems that can no longer be trusted to trial -and- error, or one-problem one- solution pro-cedures ... For example, detection and control of air, and water pollution, adequate quantity and nutritional quality of food, what to do with accumulated toxic wastes and gar-bage, and the social problems ... operational classifica-tions (B1–6) do not make a sharp distinction between biotic and abiotic. Elements and com-pounds are in a constant state of flux between living and non-living states. There...

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING - EPIDEMIOLOGY ORIGINS AND DEFINITIONS potx

... ciency of treat-ment methods summarize the result of practice and observa-tion. Many of the developments of modern medicine, both in methods of diagnosis and treatment, depend upon epidemio-logical ... interests of epidemiol-ogy, and has hampered much of its development. In many of the countries of Europe a residue of the Code of Napoleon has made the link between the cause of death and the ... authority of any of the range of diseases has often been a requirement of general practitioners, in order to obtain early warning of an impending epidemic, and to mon-itor the occurrence of those...

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING - FOSSIL FUEL CLEANING PROCESSES potx

... solids in the feed and the forma-tion of tar-like coke deposits on the catalyst tended to cause a gradual build-up of pressure drop over they catalyst bed and 3) because of the relatively ... REFORMATEGENERAL FLOWSHEET - CRUDEOIL PROCESSINGLEGENDA - CRUDE DISTILLATIONB - CATALYTIC REFORMERC - BTX EXTRACTIOND - GASOLINE POOLE - PYROLYSISFGHI - HYDRODEALKYLATIONHYDROTREATERTARALKYL ... highly waxy nature of these parafﬁ nic materi-als makes handling difﬁ cult and costly. Therefore, the blend becomes a more palatable course of action. Blends of natural low-sulfur fuels oils...

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING - MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES potx

... that many of the tanks boil, making the provi-sion of elaborate off-gas cleaning systems necessary. Some high level waste tanks have ruptured, but since they are constructed on a cup -and- saucer ... conducted at all, and to demand a certain level of confinement or restriction of wastes implies an acceptance of the cost of the waste management system as a necessary part of the cost of the process. ... Flocculation and Precipitation The cheapest and sim-plest process for treatment of radioactive liquids is removal of the activity on some kind of precipitate, either as an integral part of the precipitated...

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