Chlorine and the Environment An Overview of the Chlorine Industry

Chlorine and the Environment An Overview of the Chlorine Industry / by Ruth Stringer, Paul Johnston.

This is the first book to examine comprehensively the chlorine industry and its effects on the environment. It covers not only the history of chlorine production, but also looks at its products, their effects on the global environment, and the international legislation which controls their use, rele...

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Main Authors: Stringer, Ruth (Author), Johnston, Paul (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
Edition:1st ed. 2001.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Air pollution.
Physical chemistry.
Environmental engineering.
Biotechnology.
Ecotoxicology.
Environmental management.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Industrial Chlorine Manufacture
  • 2 Chlorine End USE Processes
  • 3 Water Disinfection and Metallurgy
  • 4 PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride)
  • 5 Pulp and Paper Production
  • 6 Environmental Releases of Organic Chlorine Compounds
  • 7 Environmental Behaviour of Chlorinated Compounds
  • 8 Effects of Chlorinated Compounds
  • 9 Ozone Depletion
  • 10 Chlorinated Pesticides
  • 11 PCBs (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
  • 12 Polychlorinated Dibenzo-P-Dioxins, Dibenzofurans and Related Compounds
  • 13 Selected Persistent Oganochlorines
  • 14 International Legal Instruments
  • 15 The Future for the Chlorine Industry
  • Appendix 1 Nomenclature of Organohalogens
  • A1.1 Aliphatic hydrocarbons
  • A1.1.1 Substituted Aliphatic Compounds
  • A1.1.2 Functional Groups
  • A1.2 Aromatic hydrocarbons
  • A1.3 Isomers, stereoisomers and congeners
  • A1.4 Trivial and unsystematic names
  • A1.5 More complex structures
  • Appendix 2 Relative Properties of the Halogens
  • Appendix 3 SI Units and Conversion Factors
  • A3.1 SI concentration units
  • A3.2 Conversion factors
  • Abbreviations.

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