Plant location environmental management

Before any concentrate management scheme can be implemented, local regulations must be met and any necessary permits acquired. Due to the environmental impacts of the constituents in the concentrate, regulations are often based on the concentration of solution to be disposed rather than the volume (Ahmed et al. 2000). Disposal regulations and permits are defined by various governing bodies, which differ according to the location of the plant and the desired site of disposal. 

Landfills, sewage treatment plants, and factories can be planned and managed with high environmental standards. The location decisions of such undertakings have to ensure the safety of the groundwater. For this reason, the following surveys and studies are essential ... 

As basic information in plant science increases additional markers will be identified for which immunoassays can be developed. Rapid determination of the nutrient status of the growing crop will allow crop managers to select fertilization that produces maximum return based on the specific needs of the crop as it grows in a specific location (29). Similarly, detection of water stress markers will permit irrigation scheduling based on crop water status rather than on soil moisture levels or other environmental measures. 

The application of mass-integration tools to the watersheds estabhshes tradeoffs between several objectives such as cost of managing water versus environmental impact [52]. For instance, in the case study given by Lira-Barragan et al. [52] for the Balsas watershed system located in Mexico, a new chemical plant is to be installed. There are 20 candidate sites as shown by Fig. 4.23. Mass integration coupled with MFA can be used to evolve water-management strategies and to aid in the site selection for the chemical... 

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