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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Contributor -- Preface -- PART I: Introduction to Environmental and Health Risk -- Chapter 1: Definitions/Glossary of Environmental and Health Risk Terms -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Terms and Definitions -- 1.3. Illustrative Examples -- 1.3.1. Illustrative Example 1 -- 1.3.2. Illustrative Example 2 -- 1.3.3. Illustrative Example 3 -- 1.3.4. Illustrative Example 4 -- Problems -- References -- Chapter 2: Introduction to Environmental and Health Risk -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Risk Variables and Categories -- 2.2.1. Risk Variables -- 2.2.2. Risk Categories -- 2.3. Financial Risk -- 2.4. Sports Risk -- 2.5. Environmental and Health Risk Terms -- 2.6. Risk Errors -- 2.7. Illustrative Examples -- 2.7.1. Illustrative Example 1 -- 2.7.2. Illustrative Example 2 -- 2.7.3. Illustrative Example 3 -- 2.7.4. Illustrative Example 4 -- Problems -- References -- Chapter 3: Environmental and Health Risk Analysis -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Health Risk Assessment/Analysis -- 3.2.1. Health Problem Identification -- 3.2.2. Toxicity and Dose-response Assessment -- 3.2.3. Exposure Assessment -- 3.2.4. Health Risk Characterization -- 3.3. Hazard Risk Assessment/Analysis -- 3.3.1. Hazard/event Problem Identification -- 3.3.2. Hazard/event Probability -- 3.3.3. Hazard/event Consequences -- 3.3.4. Hazard Risk Characterization -- 3.4. Risk Uncertainties/Limitations -- 3.4.1. Health Risk -- 3.4.2. Hazard Risk -- 3.5. Environmental Regulations -- 3.5.1. Air -- 3.5.2. Water -- 3.5.3. Solid Waste -- 3.5.4. Pollution Prevention -- 3.6. Illustrative Examples -- 3.6.1. Illustrative Example 1 -- 3.6.2. Illustrative Example 2 -- 3.6.3. Illustrative Example 3 -- 3.6.4. Illustrative Example 4 -- Problems -- References -- Chapter 4: Introduction to Probability and Statistics.

Section I. Overview. Glossary of terms -- Historical perspective -- Water properties -- Water chemistry -- Environmental regulatory framework -- The Clean Water Act -- The Safe Drinking Water Act -- Water monitoring and analysis -- Section II. Water resources. Water resources of the United States -- Global water resources -- Section III. Water treatment technologies. Drinking water treatment -- Municipal wastewater treatment -- Industrial wastewater treatment -- Evaporation -- Membrane separation processes -- Crystallization -- Nanotechnology -- Section IV. The future. New options for water desalination -- Terrorism considerations -- The pollution prevention approach -- Sustainability -- The role of optimization -- Ethical considerations -- Future U.S. water security.

Section 1. Introduction to preventive waste management -- section 2. Engineering and science fundamentals -- section 3. Engineering principles -- section 4. Pollution prevention principles -- section 5. Industrial applications -- section 6. Domestic and institutional applications -- section 7. Case studies -- section 8. Pollution prevention resources.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Introductory Comments Regarding Pollution Prevention -- About the Authors -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Part 1: Process and Plant Fundamentals -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1. Definition of Pollution Prevention -- 2. Units -- 2.1. Conversion of Units -- 2.2. Dimensional Analysis -- 3. Problem Solving Methodology -- 4. Illustrative Examples -- 5. Summary -- 6. Problems -- 7. References -- Chapter 2: Definitions -- 1. Fundamental Definitions -- 1.1. Temperature -- 1.2. Pressure -- 1.3. Moles and Molecular Weights -- 2. Physical Properties -- 2.1. Density -- 2.2. Viscosity -- 2.3. Heat Capacity -- 2.4. Thermal Conductivity -- 2.5. Diffusivity -- 2.6. Vapor Pressure -- 2.7. Boiling Point -- 2.8. Freezing Point -- 3. Chemical Properties -- 3.1. Flammability (or Explosion) Limit -- 3.2. Flash Point -- 3.3. Autoignition Temperature (AIT) -- 3.4. Heat (Enthalpy) of Reaction -- 3.5. Heat (Enthalpy) of Combustion -- 3.6. Gross Heating Value -- 3.7. Net Heating Value -- 3.8. Theoretical Adiabatic Flame Temperature (TAFT) -- 4. Biological Properties -- 4.1. Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) -- 4.2. Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) -- 4.3. Ultimate Oxygen Demand (UOD) -- 5. Properties of Mixtures -- 5.1. pH -- 5.2. Partial Pressure -- 5.3. Humidity -- 6. Illustrative Examples -- 7. Summary -- 8. Problems -- 9. References -- Chapter 3: Conservation Laws and Basic Principles -- 1. Conservation of Mass -- 2. Conservation of Energy -- 3. Ideal Gas Law -- 4. Phase Equilibrium -- 5. Stoichiometry -- 6. Thermochemistry -- 6.1. Chemical Reaction Equilibrium -- 6.2. Chemical Kinetics -- 7. Illustrative Examples -- 8. Summary -- 9. Problems -- 10. References -- Chapter 4: Unit Operations -- 1. Quantitative Approaches -- 2. Unit Operation Classification -- 3. Mass Transfer.