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Numerous technologies have been developed with varying degrees of success to maximize the various benefits of controlled release. Heightened attention to environmental concerns has prompted increased activities worldwide in the development and commercialization of controlled release fertilizers. 

In Exhibit 2-8 the need for new, or modified, control programs or elements could arise either because you have introduced a new process or facility, or modified an existing one. These changes may introduce new process hazards, new occupational safety or industrial hygiene issues or new environmental concerns. Any new hazards need to be assessed so that the company can decide whether they are tolerable or require new controls to... 

The cat cracker plays a key role in the overall profitability of the refinery. It must operate reliably and efficiently. It must also operate safely and comply with federal, state, and local environmental requirements. A typical FCC unit circulates tons of catalyst per minute, processes various types of feedstock and uses hundreds of control loops, any of which can make operation difficult. Proper troubleshooting will ensure that the unit operates at maximum reliability and efficiency while complying with environmental concerns. 

Environmental benefits of Emission Controls. Information in Figure 5 illustrate that the emission of sulphur in eastern North America has declined over the past decade. This decline allows for a possible verification of the dose-response relationships on which the environmental concerns for emissions have been based. A decline in sulphate deposition in Nova Scotia has apparently resulted in a decrease in acidity of eleven rivers over the period 1971-73 to 1981-82 (47), In the Sudbury, Ontario area where emissions have dechned by over 50% between 1974-76 and 1981-83, a resurvey of 209 lakes shows that most lakes have now become less acidic. Twenty-one lakes that had a pH < 5.5 in 1974-76 showed an average decline in acidity of 0.3 pH units over the period (48), Surveys of 54 lakes in the Algoma region of Ontario have shown a rapid response to a decline in sulphate deposition. Two lakes without fish in 1979 have recovered populations as pH of the water moved above 5.5 (49). Evidence is accumulating to support the hypothesis of benefits that were projected as a consequence of emission controls. This provides increased confidence in the projections. 

Chloroacetanilides are soil-applied herbicides used for pre- and early post-emergence control of annual grasses and broadleaf weeds in crops. Representative chloroacetanilide compounds, alachlor, acetochlor, and metolachlor, are extensively used worldwide. Other chloroacetanilides with limited usages include propachlor, bu-tachlor, metazachlor, pretilachlor, and thenylchlor. Public environmental concerns and government regulatory requirements continue to prompt the need for reliable methods to determine residues of these herbicides. There now exist a variety of analytical methods to determine residues of these compounds in crops, animal products, soil, and water. The chemical structures and major crops in which these compounds are used are summarized in Table 1. 

Silver occurs naturally in several oxidation states, the most common being elemental silver (Ag°) and the monovalent ion (Ag+). Soluble silver salts are, in general, more toxic than insoluble salts. In natural waters, the soluble monovalent species is the form of environmental concern. Sorption is the dominant process that controls silver partitioning in water and its movements in soils and sediments. As discussed later, silver enters the animal body through inhalation, ingestion, mucous membranes, and broken skin. The interspecies differences in the ability of animals to accumulate, retain, and eliminate silver are large. Almost all of the total silver intake is usually... 

The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) was signed into law in late 1976. It was a bitterly-debated piece of legislation it arose at the height of the combined environmental concern and "cancerphobia" fears distinctive of that time. In order to understand how corporations have responded to TSCA, it is important to recall the situation at that time in the knowledge of carcinogenesis, in the environmental movement, in the political scene and, finally, in the corporations themselves. 

Syed, T., 1989, An Overview of the Underground Injection Control Regulations for Class II (Oil and Gas Associated) Injection Wells — Past, Present and Future In Environmental Concerns in the Petroleum Industry (edited by S. M. Testa), Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists Symposium Volume, pp. 199-207. 

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a family of compounds, manufactured in the United States from 1930-1975, which were used in a number of discard applications and extensively as an electrical insulating fluid (see Chap. 1). Environmental concerns have led to strict controls on the use of PCBs and standards for cleanup of PCB discharges. One of the purposes of this section is to present information on the chemical and physical characteristics of these compounds. Based on this, the mechanisms of their movement in the surface/subsurface environment can be explained. 

Although chromate is the best aqueous corrosion inhibitor available, its use has been severely curtailed due to toxicity and environmental concerns ( ). One of the more successful non-chromate treatments involves the use of phosphate/phosphonate combinations. This treatment employs high levels of orthophosphate to promote passivation of the metal surfaces. Therefore, it is important to control calcium phosphate crystallization so that high levels of orthophosphate may be maintained in the system without fouling or impeding heat-transfer functions. 

It is obvious that such an assessment is formidable, technically difficult, and extremely expensive. Since an environmental source assessment study is required to characterize the total pollution potential of all waste streams, the sampling program must be more extensive than those conducted for the acquisition of process or control engineering data. Assessment sampling is more complete in that all waste streams are sampled and no attempt is made to limit sampling to a preselected number of process streams. The sampling is also more comprehensive in that all substances of potential environmental concern must be detectable above some minimum level of concern. These requiements of completeness and comprehensiveness call for a strategy of approach in which the philosophy and structure ensure maximum utilization of available resources. 

In response to recent federal and local environmental concerns (e.g., industrial emission controls and lead phase-out) and to the growing interest of refiners in cracking residual fuels, researchers have generated new families of cracking catalysts. There is now a need to review the merits of these newly developed materials. This volume contains contributions from researchers involved in the preparation and characterization of cracking catalysts. Other important aspects of fluid catalytic cracking, such as feedstocks and process hardware effects in refining, have been intentionally omitted because of time limitations and should be treated separately in future volumes. 

Abstract There is a growing demand for hydrolyzable surfactants, i.e., sirnfactants that break down in a controlled way by changing the pH. Environmental concern is the main driving force behind current interest in these sirnfactants, but they are also of interest in applications where sirnfactants are needed in one stage but later undesirable at another stage of a process. This chapter summarizes the field of hydrolyzable sirnfactants with an emphasis on their more recent development. Surfactants that break down either on the acid or on the alkaline side are described. It is shown that the susceptibility to hydrolysis for many surfactants depends on whether or not the surfactant is in the form of micelles or as free unimers in solution. It is shown that whereas nonionic ester sirnfactants are more stable above the CMC (micellar retardation), cationic ester surfactants break down more readily when aggregated than when present as unimers (micellar catalysis). 

Polymers from renewable sources have received great attention over many years, predominantly due to the environmental concerns. Potato starch is a promising biopol5mier for various food, pharmaceutical, and biomedical applications because of its higher water solubility that raises its degradability and speed of degradation non-toxicity, easy availability, and abundancy. The role of starch for tissue engineering of bone, bone fixation, carrier for the controlled release... 

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