TheI&ECSYMPOSIUMfromwhichthisvolumewasderivedfeatured519presen-
tationsat88technicalsessionsduringathree-daymeetingonSeptember17-20,
1996in Birmingham,Alabamawith580registrants.
Thefinalselectionsforthechaptersincluded
hereinwerebasedonpeerreview,scientificmerit,theeditors'perceptionsoflastingvalue
orinnovativefeatures,
andthegeneralapplicabilityofeitherthetechnologyitselforthe
scientificmethodsandscholarlydetailsprovidedbytheauthors. Thevolume
isacontinuationofathemeinitiatedin 1990. Itspredecessors,Emerg- ing
Technologies in Hazardous Waste Management, ACS Symposium Series
No. 422 (1990), EmergingTechnologiesinHazardous
WasteManagementII,ACSSymposiumSe- ries No. 468 (1991), Emerging
Technologies in Hazardous WasteManagement III, ACS
SymposiumSeriesNo. 518(1993), EmergingTechnologiesinHazardous
WasteManage- mentIV, ACSSymposium Series No. 554 (1994),Emerging
Technologies in Hazardous WasteManagement V. ACSSymposiumSeriesNo.
607(1995), andEmergingTechnolo- gies in Hazardous Waste Management
VI, American AcademyofEnvironmental Engi- neersPublication (1996),
arerelatedcontributionsonhazardouswastemanagement,but
eachvolumeisessentiallydifferent.
Byinspection,thereadermayquicklyrecognizethis
diversity,andalsoconcludethatnosinglevolumecandojusticetothebreadthanddepth
oftechnologiesbeingdevelopedandappliedinpractice.
Thecontributionspresented in thisvolumearedivided
intofourseparatebutcom- plementary sections, including: (1)
Chemical and Thermal Treatment; (2) Biochemical
Treatment;(3)SeparationTechnologies;and(4)RadioactiveWasteTreatment.
D. WilliamTedder FrederickG. Pohland GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology
UniversityofPittsburgh Atlanta, Georgia30332-0100
Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania15261-2294 v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Industrial
& Engineering Chemistry (I&EC) Division ofACS organized and
sponsored the symposium. ACS Corporate Associates was a
majorfinancial cosponsor;
theAmericanInstituteofChemicalEngineers(AIChE)EnvironmentalSciencesDivision,
theAIChECenterforWasteReductionTechnologies,theAmericanAcademyofEnviron-
mental Engineers,andtheJointAssociationfor
theAdvancementsofSupercriticalFluid
Technologywerenominalcosponsors;andEnviroExpocositedanexhibition.
Thisgener- osity was essential to the overall successofthe
symposium and is gratefully acknow- ledged. vii CONTENTS I.
EmergingTechnologiesinHazardousWasteManagementVII:AnOverview...FrederickG.
PohlandandD. WilliamTedder ChemicalandThermalMethods 2.
GranularIronOxideasaCatalystinChemicalOxidationofOrganic
Contaminants...9 MiratD. Gurol,Shu-SungLin,andNileshBhat 3.
AnElectronBeamGeneratedPlasmaReactorforDecompositionof
HalogenatedVOCs 23 S. A. Vitale, K. Hadidi,D. R. Cohn, L.
Bromberg,andP. Falkos 4.
IncinerationandThermalTreatmentofChemicalAgentsandChemicalWeapons
33 F. C. GouldinandE. M. Fisher 5.
PredictingStabilityConstantsofVariousChelatingAgentsUsingQSAR
Technology 49 R. W. Okey,S. Lin,andP. K. A. Hong 6.
MineralizationofHazardousChemicalsbyHemeReaction ...69
GuyoungKang,JimoJung,KapsongPark,andDavidK. Stevens
BiochemicalTreatment 7.
AnaerobicTransformationsofCarbonTetrachloride:CombinedBacterialand
AbioticProcesses 81 FlynnW.
Picardal,SanggooKim,AnnaRadue,andDeberaBackhus 8.
BiorecoveryofMetalsfromAcidMineDrainage...91
RakeshGovind,UmaKumar,RamaPuligadda,JimmyAntia,and HenryTabak ix x
Contents 9.
BiotreatmentofMinewater-ContainingCyanidesbyUsingImmobilizedCell
Technology 103 Onguri K. Vijaya,G. R. V. Babu,JackAdams,JamesH.
Wolfram,and KiritD. Chapatwala 10.
Augmentationofin-SituSubsoilRemediationUsingColloidalGasDispersions
113 P. G. Chaphalkar,K. T. Valsaraj,D. Roy, W. D. Constant,andP.
Lee 11.
EffectofSorptionontheMicrobialReductiveDechlorinationofSoil-Bound
Chloroalkenes 127 SpyrosG. PavlostathisandPingZhuang
SeparationTechnologies 12.
TheRemovalofVOCsfromExhaustAirandVapourCondensatesby
MembraneProcesses ...
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