Industries Affected

The chemical industry affects virtually all aspects of our lives. Were it to disappear suddenly, we would find ourselves living again in the early nineteenth century without cars, airplanes, television, electric fights, most of our colorful clothing, most perishable food, most drugs and medicine, plastics, and all the rest of the modern conveniences that most of us take for granted. 

Even a single HAB episode can be extremely costly. In Maryland in 1997, reported eases of human disease associated with exposure to water containing Pfiesteria piscicida cost the seafood industry alone an estimated 46 million in lost revenue (Anderson et al., 2000). Lewis (1986) found that CFP in the South Paeifie depressed both the local and export fishing industries, affected tourism, and indirectly affected human health (because people avoided eating fresh fish). 

Operating scale (laboratory vs. industrial) affects the behavior of chemical reaction systems. It is critical that we develop hydrodynamic models for those systems that are scale sensitive. This will require a collaboration between academic and industrial groups to collect data necessary for commercial-scale equipment. Once the hydrodynamic models have been developed and validated, kinetic models can be integrated with them. 

As stated in Chapter 1, the chemical structure of the top surface layers of a solid determines its surface properties. If these top layers consist of the same chemical groups, then the surface is called chemically homogeneous, and if they consist of different chemical groups it is called chemically heterogeneous. The presence of two or more chemically different solid substances in a surface layer enormously multiplies the possibilities for variety in the types of surface, such as copolymer surfaces and catalysts having many different atoms at the surface. The chemical heterogeneity of a surface is an important property in industry affecting catalysis, adhesion, adsorption, wettability, biocompatibility, printability and lubrication behavior of a surface, and it must be determined analytically when required. 

Erlenkeuser, H., Suess, E., and Willkomm, H. (1974). Industrialization affects heavy metal and carbon isotope concentrations in recent Baltic Sea sediments. Geochim. Cosmo-chim. Acta 38, 823-842. 

The term industry affecting commerce means any industry or activity in commerce or in which a labor dispute would burden or obstruct commerce or tend to burden or obstruct commerce or the free flow of commerce. 

The industries affected by these regulations are those dealing with petrol vapour recovery, incineration of waste, mercury emissions from crematoria, animal rendering, non-ferrous foundry processes, surface treating of metals and plastic materials by powder coating, galvanizing of metals and the manufacture of certain specified composite wood-based boards. 

All human activity, including that of the chemical industry, affects the environment. CEFIC believes that the protection of the environment is an integral part of good business practice and that the industry has a duty to satisfy itself that its products are manufactured, handled, transported, used and disposed of safely and without unacceptable risks for the environment. This requires that companies not only comply with the law, but also take independent and responsible actions. 

The information sessions must be carefully planned and organized. After eonsultation with the local administration (town councils of the affeeted munieipaUties), the soeial groups at which the sessions are to be aimed must be identified. This ineludes the administration s technical staff, neighborhood associations, teachers, cultural and sports associations, as well as the workers in the industries affected. 

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