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by Jay H. Lehr, Inc. John Wiley & Sons
| | List Price: | $195.00 | | Price: | $161.00 | | You Save: | $34.00 (17%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 1125270 | | Studio: | Wiley-Interscience | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 1288 | | Publication Date: | June 07, 2004 | | Publisher: | Wiley-Interscience |
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Wiley's Remediation Technologies Handbook: Major Contaminant Chemicals and Chemical Groups, extracted from the Enviroglobe database, consists of 368 chemicals and chemical groups. This book lists in alphabetical order these chemical and chemical groups along with the numerous technologies, many of which are patented, or trademarked techniques, to remediate them. A short description of each of these technologies is provided along with appropriate references. Wiley's Remediation Technologies Handbook: Major Contaminant Chemicals and Chemical Groups: - Covers the most important chemical and chemical groups that are found to pollute the environment, and the ways to remediate them.
- Gives succinct abstract describing the numerous technologies used to clean-up a wide range of pollutants.
- Provides the uses and limitations of each technique.
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Wiley's Remediation Technologies Handbook : Major Contaminan 
BOOK: WILEY'S REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES HANDBOOK
Hundreds of interesting remediation technologies for soil and groundwater have been developed over the past two decades. As one who has gone to dozens of hazmat shows, I have file folders full of various specialty vendor brochures and pamphlets for numerous technologies. My bookshelves have numerous United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) reports detailing various technologies and remedial strategies. However, locating the specific technology information in a short period of time is sometimes difficult and available information is frequently incomplete or outdated. For those having a need for a decent reference of remediation technologies indexed to major contaminant chemicals and chemical groups, that can be accessed quickly, the solution is relatively simple. John Wiley and Sons published the Wiley's Remediation Technologies Handbook: Major Contaminant Chemicals and Chemical Groups (ISBN: 0471455997), by Jay H. Lehr. The book is a concise reference for remediation technologies where all the information is in one volume.
Dr. Lehr is the senior scientist at AR Environmental Services Inc. and Science Director at The Heartland Institute. He is the author of twelve books and over 400 articles on groundwater science. Dr. Lehr has worked extensively with the federal government to develop key environmental regulations regarding surface and groundwater. What he has written in the Wiley's Remediation Technologies Handbook is a collection of 901 technology solutions to remediate 368 chemicals and chemical groups. The accompanying CD has the complete database to look up a particular technology by chemical, vendor or site location. The remediation treatments range from the generally accepted and conventional to the experimental and unusual. The various technology listings have the same format, allowing the reader quick access to the information. Each listing provides an abstract, technology costs, and information sources. Typical information sources include as the US EPA technology review reports, VISITT database, EnviroGlobe database, peer-reviewed journals, United Stated Department of Energy (US DOE), national laboratory reports, trade journals, conference proceedings, as well as information from the technology vendor.
As an example, gasoline, under the heading of total petroleum hydrocarbons in the index, has no less than 450+ technologies listed for treatment options of soil, vapor or water treatment. Some of the remediation technologies are for in-situ methods; other technologies are designed for above ground treatment of contaminants. The treatments range from in situ oxygen diffusers to ion exchange resins for above ground treatment of water to vitrification to soil washing to radio frequency heating to low-thermal desorption with heat recovery.
The index that lists the technologies applicable to specific chemicals provides insight when less common contaminants being evaluated for remediation. Although gasoline has hundreds of technologies, tungsten and chlordane are two contaminants that are less common in the environment and in remedial approaches. There are two technologies listed for tungsten remediation and thirty-one technologies listed for chlordane. For regulators or consultants working with sites containing harmful levels of tungsten or chlordane, for example, this book provides a good starting point.
The remediation technology entries contain details, uses and limitations such as lithology or other site conditions are often described in the abstracts, providing the hands-on knowledge that might not be so obvious. For example, radio frequency heating cannot be used on a site containing large metal objects such as buried metal pipelines or underground tanks. The Chemical Stabilization Technology, a proprietary contaminant immobilization mechanism for treating soils, sludges, and ashes contaminated with toxic heavy metals and hydrocarbons, may be limited by the presence of oxidizers, such as chlorine, peroxide, permanganate, or persulfate. This type of information is sometimes not learned by new project managers until they are in the field and something has not gone well. Consequently, this book has significant value for a clear and concise overview of hundreds of remedial technologies listing some of the limitations and pitfalls for specific applications.
Because the book lists every significant chemical contaminant and the numerous technologies used to clean them up, Wiley's Remediation Technologies Handbook is a worthwhile addition to the libraries of environmental consultants, regulators, and brownfield developers who need to know the types and costs of remedial options available for specific contaminants, the uses and limitations of each technology and appropriate references.
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James A. Jacobs, R.G., C.H.G., is president of Environmental Bio-Systems, Inc. He has 25 years of experience as a geologist and has been a two-time Fulbright award winner in environmental engineering. Comments: augerpro@sbcglobal.net.
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