Soil pollution, polymer industry

The book highlights environmental issues in areas such as mining, polymer manufacture and applications, radioactive wastes, industries in general, agro-chemicals, soil pollution and biology, together with the basic theory and recent developments in the modelling of environmental... 

Among organic chemicals are included the majority of important industrial compounds, synthetic polymers, agricultural chemicals, biological materials, and most substances that are of concern because of their toxicities and other hazards. Pollution of the water, air, and soil environments by organic chemicals is an area of significant concern. 

Environmental risk assessment has to address all compartments of the environment like air, water, sediment and soil. The partition of a substance between the various compartments is controlled by the physico-chemical parameters of a substance. Water-soluble or dispersible surfactants and emulsifiers will predominantly affect the water and sediments. As surfactants are widely used not only in manifold industrial applications but also in consumer products the pollution is widely dispersed. The contribution of surfactants used in polymer production is comparably rather small but has nevertheless to be controlled and monitored. 

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