The chemical industry does not enjoy a reputation for being an environmentally friendly undertaking. Incidents such as the release of toxic dioxines in Seveso, Italy, the dumping of hazardous wastes in the Love Canal near Niagara Falls, USA, or the poisoning of thousands of Indians due to a gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, are a few examples of the health and enviro...

In the upcoming years, world will face societal challenges arising, in particular, from impact of climate change and inefficient use natural resources, addition to an exponential growth population, which according United Nations (UN) estimations be 9.8 billion 2050. This increasing trend requires optimized management resources with value-added waste a significant reduction food loss waste. More...

information will be of particular interest to engineers , risk assessors and safety professionals in the chemical industry who have to deal with water reactive chemicals. A new revised and expanded 4th edition of Pharma-zeutische Wirksto¡e by A. Kleemann and J. Engel has been published in English as Pharmaceutical Substances: Bibliography. It contains information on over 2200 pharmaceutical com...

The term bioremediation has been introduced to describe the process of using biological agents to remove toxic waste from environment. Bioremediation is the most effective management tool to manage the polluted environment and recover contaminated soil. The hazardous wastes generated from the chemical processes/operations are being treated using physico-chemical and biological methods by the re...

background & aim: identification, characterization and detection of medicinal plants chemical composition are very important for phytochemical scientific source. sumac is one of the medicinal plants in the world that uses for industrial and pharmacological application. in this study, chemical composition of rhus coriaria has been investigated. experimental: chemical composition of the matu...

Biomass and other carbonaceous materials can be gasified to produce syngas with high concentrations of CO and H2. Feedstock materials include wood, dedicated energy crops, grain wastes, manufacturing or municipal wastes, natural gas, petroleum and chemical wastes, lignin, coal and tires. Syngas fermentation converts CO and H2 to alcohols and organic acids and uses concepts applicable in ferment...

Partitioning-transmutation technology (PT) will produce radioactive wastes of different physical and chemical properties and in different amounts from those generated in the current nuclear fuel cycle. To assess quantitatively the effects of PT on waste disposal, we first analyzed the amounts of the PT wastes, assumed conditioning for each type of the waste, and then made an attempt to estimate...

INTRODUCTION In recent years, government and hospital disaster planners have recognized the increasing importance of pharmaceutical preparedness for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) events, as well as other public health emergencies. The development of pharmaceutical surge capacity for immediate use before support from the (US) Strategic National Stockpile (SNS...