Hardcover

Perfluorinated Chemicals (PFCs)

Contaminants of Concern

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  • Hardcover

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    2 December 2016

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Summary

This new volume provides a timely study on the environmental challenges from a specific class of perfluorinated chemical compounds (PFCs) that are now being recognized as a worldwide health threat. Recent studies report that levels of classes of PFCs known as polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl (PFASs) exceed federally recommended safety levels in public drinking-water supplies for 6 million people in the United States and that as many as 100 million people could be at risk from exposure to…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781119363538
ISBN-10:1119363535
Author:Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:Wiley-Scrivener
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:2 December 2016
Weight:567g
Dimensions:23mm x 155mm x 231mm
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Perfluorinated Chemicals (PFCs) by Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff - ISBN: 9781119363538
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About The Author

Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff

Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff is the Principal of No Pollution Enterprises. He is a chemical engineer specializing in the safe handling and management of industrial chemicals and hazardous materials with nearly forty years of industry, business and applied research experience. He earned his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Clarkson College of Technology in Potsdam, New York. Over his long career he has worked pollution prevention and waste to energy projects in the refining, gas processing and the petrochemicals industries for numerous U.S. and foreign clients. For international lending institutions including the World Bank Organization, the U.S. Export-Import Bank, the International Finance Corporation, and donor agencies including the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Trade & Development Agency, and the European Union he has served as consultant and technical advisor on pollution management, worker safety, and environmental management practices. He has also held academic positions, including adjunct professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Farleigh Dickenson University, and has been an invited Lecturer at the Russian and Ukrainian Academies of Sciences, the Jordan University of Science and Technology, Texas A&M University, University of Missouri-Rolla, Cooper Union University, and the University of Leuven. He has authored, co-authored or edited more than 100 technical reference and textbooks.

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