Toxic industrial agents effects

The treatment of wood to reduce or eliminate the effects of weathering could potentially open up new market opportunities for wood as a material and research has therefore targeted chemical pretreatments that might provide such benefits. Chromium-based pretreatments are particularly effective in this regard but, presumably for environmental reasons, such systems have generally not been adopted by industry and the search continues for effective, low-toxicity photostabilizing agents for wood. 

Toxins, new-generation nerve agents, and toxic industrial chemicals have chemical properties different from those of traditional chemical agents. Fielded decontamination materials may not be effective against some of these threats. 

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. 

The most effective way to decontaminate contaminated surfaces is the degradation of CW agents and toxic industrial chemicals by reactive compounds. To do so, reactive chemicals and ideally extractively acting solvents have to be part of the decontamination media used. 

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