Mass Transfer Operations for the Practicing Engineer (Theordore/Mass Transfer) || Environmental Management and Safety Issues

✍ Scribed by Theodore, Louis; Ricci, Francesco

• Book ID: 102682391
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 796 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0470577584
• DOI: 10.1002/9780470602591.ch22

✦ Synopsis

In the last four decades, people have become aware of a wide range of environmental issues. All sources of air, land, and water pollution are under constant public scrutiny. Increasing numbers of professionals are being confronted with problems related to environmental management. Because many of these issues are of concern, practicing engineers must develop a proficiency and an improved understanding of technical and scientific issues regarding environmental management and safety issues in order to cope with these challenges.

The problem of what to include and what to omit has been particularly difficult for this chapter. However, every attempt has been made to offer material to the reader at a level that should enable them to better cope with some of the complex problems encountered in environmental management today.

The chapter is divided into the following five sections:

Mass Transfer Operations for the Practicing Engineer.