Elements of Environmental Chemistry

by Hites, Ronald A.; Raff, Jonathan D.

• ISBN13: 9781118041550
• ISBN10: 1118041550
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-24
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This reference takes a quantitative approach to environmental chemistry, employing a concise style. The second edition continues the book's original approach, while adding important topics such as climate change, atmospheric chemisty, the reactive fates of organic compounds and organic pollutants associated with oil spills, and the Stockholm "dirty dozen" (DDT, PCBs and dioxins). With new real-world problems added throughout, this updated text provides a short, quantitative resource ideal for an introductory course in environmental chemistry, as well as a quick primer on the subject for professionals.

Author Biography

Ronald A. Hites, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. He is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been an editor of Environmental Science and Technology since 1990. Jonathan D. Raff, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. He was the recipient of a National Science Foundation American Competitiveness in Chemistry Postdoctoral Fellowship and a United States Environmental Protection Agency STAR Graduate Fellowship.

Table of Contents

Simple Tool Skills	p. 1
Unit Conversions	p. 1
Estimating	p. 5
Ideal Gas Law	p. 9
Stoichiometry	p. 14
Problem Set	p. 16
Mass Balance and Kinetics	p. 23
Steady-State Mass Balance	p. 24
Non-Steady-State Mass Balance	p. 41
Chemical Kinetics	p. 59
Problem Set	p. 69
Atmospheric Chemistry	p. 77
Atmospheric Structure	p. 77
Light and Photochemistry	p. 80
Atmospheric Oxidants	p. 86
Kinetics of Atmospheric Reactions	p. 88
Stratospheric Ozone	p. 91
Smog	p. 105
Problem Set	p. 112
Climate Change	p. 123
Historical Perspective	p. 123
Blackbody Radiation and Earth's Temperature	p. 125
Absorption of Infrared Radiation	p. 130
Greenhouse Effect	p. 132
Earth's Radiative Balance	p. 134
Aerosols and Clouds	p. 138
Radiative Forcing	p. 141
Global Warming Potentials	p. 142
Concluding Remarks	p. 144
Problem Set	p. 146
Carbon Dioxide Equilibria	p. 153
Pure Rain	p. 155
Polluted Rain	p. 160
Surface Water	p. 169
Ocean Acidification	p. 174
Problem Set	p. 181
Pesticides, Mercury, and Lead	p. 189
Pesticides	p. 191
Mercury	p. 210
Lead	p. 213
Problem Set	p. 217
Fates of Organic Compounds	p. 223
Vapor Pressure	p. 225
Water Solubility	p. 226
Henry's Law Constant	p. 227
Partition Coefficients	p. 228
Lipophilicity	p. 229
Bioaccumulation	p. 231
Adsorption	p. 232
Water-Air Transfer	p. 235
Reactive Fates of Organics	p. 240
Partitioning and Persistence	p. 242
Problem Set	p. 247
PCBs, Dioxins, and Flame Retardants	p. 259
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)	p. 259
Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins and Dibenzofurans	p. 277
Brominated Flame Retardants	p. 297
Lessons Learned	p. 304
Primer on Organic Structures and Names	p. 307
Answers to the Problem Sets	p. 325
Periodic Table of the Elements	p. 328
Index	p. 331
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