Sorption Properties of Sediments and Energy-Related Pollutants (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

John J. Hassett

9780331279399: Sorption Properties of Sediments and Energy-Related Pollutants (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0331279398 ISBN 13: 9780331279399

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Sorption Properties of Sediments and Energy-Related Pollutants

Environmental protection efforts are increasingly directed towards prevention of adverse health and ecological effects associated with specific compounds of natural or human origin. As part of this Laboratory's research on the occurrence, movement, transformation, impact, and control of environ mental contaminants, the Environmental Processes Branch studies the micro biological, chemical, and physico - chemical processes that control the trans port, transformation, and impact of pollutants in soil and water.

Efforts to achieve our national goal of energy independence will require increasing use of our country's vast domestic coal reserves. The combustion of coal or its conversion to a gaseous or liquid fuel, however, can release numerous organic compounds that are potentially toxic, carcinogenic, or muta genic. This report examines the sorption properties of several energy - rela ted pollutants ou sediments. Information on these properties is needed to predict the movement of the compounds in aquatic systems so that potential environmental problems can be anticipated.

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