文档介绍：Industrial Waste Treatment:
by Nelson Leonard Nemerow
· ISBN: 0123724937
· Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
· Pub. Date: October 2006
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Prologue
In 1963, one year after Rachel Carson published her last book, Silent Spring, which warned
of the interdependence of industrial waste pollution and human development, I published
my first textbook on the subject of industrial waste treatment, Theories and Practices of
Industrial Waste Treatment. Most of my current readers were not actively participating in
this field at that time. Therefore, I feel impelled to republish—in modified and somewhat
updated form—the considerable amount of historical theories and practices of twentieth-
century industrial waste treatment. It is remarkable how much of this technical information
has remained the same since the publishing of that original book, but it is difficult to locate
a book from that long ago. I followed that book with updated books on the subject—Liquid
Wastes of Industry in 1971, Industrial Water Pollution in 1978, Industrial and Hazardous
Waste Treatment with Dr. Dasgupta in 1991, Zero Pollution in 1995, and Strategies of
Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management with Dr. Agardy in 1998. But they too
(except for the last two) would be hard to locate in most libraries. In fact, many of the pub-
lishers themselves have changed or pletely out of the business. For an updated
and excellent version of current conventional industrial waste treatment equipment and
practices (including costs), I urge you to consult another Elsevier text, Industrial Waste
Treatment Handbook. It was prepared by the collective effort of the firm Woodard and
Curran of Portland, Maine. Many of the figures in this book are replicated from the above
titles with permission from John Wiley and Sons.
I have made a special effort in this book to reference publications that are still in
print a