Chemical Warfare Agents and Toxic Industrial Chemicals

3 Chemical Warfare Agents and Toxic Industrial Chemicals 

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Ionscan CENTURIAN Detection System This system provides fixed site continuous ambient air monitoring for chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals. 

Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., M.A. Barlaz., D. Knappe, and P. Kjeldsen. 2006. Fate of chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals in landfills. Environmental Science and Technology 40(13) 4219-4225. 

Many factors influence adsorption of chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals by activated carbon. Some of them have already been mentioned in the previous sections. In this section the nature of this influence will be described and explained, where possible. In most cases this can be illustrated by looking at the effect of changing a particular parameter on breakthrough time predictions. Therefore, where possible, the Wheeler-Jonas equation (Eq.36) vrill be used to explain the effect of changing a given parameter. 

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS AND TOXIC INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS... 

Great efforts have been made in order to replace established but harmful, corrosive, and therefore, obsolete decontamination media for chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals. Chapter 14 by Hellweg and coworkers discusses the considerable advantages of microemulsion-based decontamination systems with respect to practical boundary conditions and fundamental principles of microemulsion formation. Additionally, the authors illustrate the further development to versatile, environmentally compatible and nonharmful systems containing nanoparticles and enzymes as active components. 

Aposhian, H.V., Zakharyan, R.A., Avram, M.D., et al, 2003. Oxidation and detoxification of trivalent arsenic species. Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 193,1-8. Apostoli, P, Alessio, L., Romeo, L., et al., 1997. Metabolism of arsenic after acute occupational arsine intoxication. J. Toxicol. Environ. Health 52, 331-342. ATSDR, 2000. Toxicological Profile for Arsenic (Update). US Department of Health and Human Services, US Government Printing Office, USA. Bartelt-Hunt, S.L., Barlaz, M.A., Knappe, D.R.U., et al., 2006. Fate of chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals in landfills. Environ. Sd. Technol. 40, 4219-4225. 

Stevens, A. E. Ehret, A. Stuhl, L. S. Chemical warfare agent and toxic industrial chemical detection by degradation combined with acid-base indicator dyes deployed as coatings. PCX Int. Appl. WO 2008018853, 2008 Chem. Abstr. 2008, 148, 207994. 

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