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Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons - Environmental Fate, Toxicity, and Remediation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons - Environmental Fate, Toxicity, and Remediation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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The term "total petroleum hydrocarbons" (TPHs) is used for any
mixture of several hundred hydrocarbons found in crude oil, and
they represent the sum of volatile petroleum hydrocarbons and
extractable petroleum hydrocarbons. The petrol-range organics
include hydrocarbons from C6 to C10, while diesel-range organics
are C10-C28 hydrocarbons. Environmental pollution by petroleum
hydrocarbons is one of the major global concerns, particularly in
oil-yielding countries. In fact, there are more than five million
potentially contaminated areas worldwide that represent, in
general, a lost economic opportunity and a threat to the health and
well-being of humans and the environment. Petroleum-contaminated
sites constitute almost one-third of the total sites polluted with
chemicals around the globe. The land contamination caused by
industrialization was recognized as early as the 1960s, but less
than a tenth of potentially contaminated lands have been remediated
due to the nature of the contamination, cost, technical
impracticability, and insufficient land legislation and
enforcement. This book is the first single source that provides
comprehensive information on the different aspects of TPHs, such as
sources and range of products, methods of analysis, fate and
bioavailability, ecological implications including impact on human
health, potential approaches for bioremediation such as risk-based
remediation, and regulatory assessment procedures for
TPH-contaminated sites. As such, it is a valuable resource for
researchers, graduate students, technicians in the oil industry and
remediation practitioners, as well as policy makers.
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