Innovative Technologies for Cleaning the Environment: Air, Water and Soil

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Foreword

• OPENING SESSION, THURSDAY

  • Welcome/Announcements

• Keynote Speaker

  • U.S. Department of Energy International Technology Development Program

• Keynote Speaker

  • Poverty is the Ultimate Pollutant

  • Global Warming and Carbon Dioxide

• THURSDAY SESSION: POLLUTION PREVENTION/CLEANUP STRATEGIES

  • How Clean is Clean Enough?

  • EnviroTRADE: An International Network for Transferring Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Technologies

  • EnviroTRADE Technical Briefing

  • Methodological Principles of Regional Assessment and Mapping of Group Water Vulnerability

  • Integrated Chemical Technologies for a Rational and Clean Industrial Development

• FRIDAY SESSION: CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPE

  • Mercury Contamination from the BVK Facility in Hungary

  • Case Histories: Examples of Ongoing Remediation Projects in Siberia and Italy

  • Application of Ion Exchange for Wastewater Treatment in Poland

  • Environmental Problems of Czechoslovak Chemical Industry

  • Contaminated Soils and Ground Water in East Germany

  • Remediation of Contaminated Sediments in the Netherlands

  • Possible Generalized Approach to Buffer Zone Creation in Russia

  • Radioecological Problem in the Nuclear Complex - Mayak

  • Accident at South Urals, Kyshtym

  • Chemical Analysis of Environmental Objects: Problems and Prospects

  • Use of ALARA in Decision-Making on Public Safety in the Regions with High Risk: Evacuation of Socio-Economic Development

• SATURDAY SESSION

• Session I — PERSIAN GULF/MEDITERRANEAN

  • Overview of Marine Pollution in the Persian Gulf Region

  • Hazardous Waste Cleanup Technologies used in Kuwait and Europe

  • WMO Action for Assessing the Atmospheric Pollution from the Kuwait Oilfield Fires

• Session II — INDUSTRIAL AIR POLLUTION

  • Innovative Catalytic Technologies to Clean Sources of Industrial Air Pollution in Italy

  • Catalytic Technologies to Clean the Atmospheric Environment

• MONDAY SESSION: SOILS AND GROUND WATER

  • Innovative Pore-Liquid Monitoring and Remediation in the Vadose Zone

  • In Situ Ground Water Remediation of Strippable Contaminants and In Situ Bioreclamation

  • Innovative Ground Water Remediation Using Horizontal Wells

  • Innovative Methods for Characterization and Cleanup of of Contaminated Ground Water

  • The Role of Data Management and Decision Support Systems in the Implementation of Smart Pump-and-Treat

  • The Role of Suspended Particulate Matter in the Transport of Pollutants in the Aquifer System: Importance of Microscale Sampling Technique

  • Effective Cleanup of Subsurface Contamination Using Vacuum Extraction

  • Toxicological Implications of Remediating Hazardous Wastes

  • Real-Time Technology Assessment and Emergency Response

• TUESDAY SESSION: SOILS AND GROUNDWATER

  • The Application of Innovative Technologies at the Hanford Department of Energy Site

  • Combining Accelerated Cleanup with Innovative Technologies

  • Colloidal Manipulation for Environmental Restoration of Plutonium and Americium in Soils and Water at the Rocky Flats Colorado Superfund Site

  • Screening, Selection, and Testing of Treatment Technologies for Remediation of Hazardous Wastes

  • Innovative In Situ Treatment Technologies

  • COLDFIRE, Radiolytically Catalyzed Oxidation of Toxic Wastes