Chlorine and the Environment

An Overview of the Chlorine Industry

By: Ruth Stringer, Paul Johnston

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Hardcover | 28 February 2001

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This is the first book to examine comprehensively the chlorine industry and its effects on the environment. It covers not only the history of chlorine production, but also looks at its products, their effects on the global environment, and the international legislation which controls their use, release, and disposal.
Individual chapters are dedicated to subjects such as releases of organochlorines into the environment, and the environmental impact of ozone depletion, providing simple explanations of these complex issues. These are backed up with case studies of landmark events in the history of the chlorine industry - for example the Seveso explosion or the Yusho and Yu-Cheng mass poisonings.
With a clear, concise text and numerous compilations of critical data, this book will prove an invaluable source reference for environmental scientists, students, and policy makers with an interest in this subject.

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Environmental Science Pollution Control

Industrial chlorine manufacture	p. 1
History of chlorine manufacture and use	p. 1
Chlor-alkali production and use	p. 6
Modern chlor-alkali manufacture and process integration	p. 11
Energy consumption in chlorine manufacture	p. 14
Environmental effects of chlor-alkali processes	p. 14
Chlorine end use processes	p. 25
Inorganic chlorine compounds	p. 25
Chlorinated hydrocarbons	p. 29
Water disinfection and metallurgy	p. 53
Potable water	p. 53
Swimming pools	p. 59
Metals and metal compounds	p. 61
PVC (polyvinyl chloride)	p. 79
Global production	p. 79
Properties and applications	p. 82
The manufacturing process	p. 83
Production wastes	p. 84
Hazards associated with PVC plastic	p. 88
Recycling	p. 95
Disposal	p. 98
Pulp and paper production	p. 107
Production processes	p. 107
Formation of organochlorines by chlorine bleaching	p. 111
Pollution control measures	p. 114
Effects of process modification on organochlorine production	p. 116
Endocrine disruption and pulp and paper mills	p. 123
Totally effluent free processes - closing the bleach circuits	p. 125
Environmental releases of organic chlorine compounds	p. 133
Releases from products	p. 133
Industrial emissions	p. 135
Indirect and non-industrial sources	p. 141
Natural organohalogens	p. 153
Environmental behaviour of chlorinated compounds	p. 163
Atmospheric transport and behaviour	p. 163
Soils and sediments	p. 169
The aquatic environment	p. 172
The biosphere	p. 177
Effects of chlorinated compounds	p. 187
Introduction	p. 187
Reproductive toxicity	p. 188
Endocrine disruption	p. 189
Immunotoxicity	p. 191
Cancer	p. 191
Relevance of lab-generated data	p. 192
Toxicological impacts of environmental pollution	p. 195
Ozone depletion	p. 217
The environmental implications of ozone depletion	p. 220
Effects on plants	p. 225
Effects on terrestrial animals	p. 231
Human health effects	p. 232
Chlorinated pesticides	p. 239
DDT and metabolites	p. 240
Aldrin, dieldrin and endrin	p. 244
Mirex	p. 249
Chlordecone	p. 252
Toxaphene	p. 255
Lindane	p. 258
Pentachlorophenol	p. 262
2,4-D and 2,4,5-T	p. 264
Endosulfan	p. 267
PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls)	p. 277
Production and composition	p. 277
Legislation	p. 282
Toxicity and pharmacokinetics	p. 284
Case study: the Belgian chicken scandal	p. 292
Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans and related compounds	p. 305
Introduction	p. 305
Occurrence and behaviour in the environment	p. 306
Sources	p. 306
Toxicity	p. 309
Legislation	p. 315
Industrial accidents involving dioxin	p. 316
Selected persistent oganochlorines	p. 335
Chlorinated paraffins	p. 335
Chlorinated benzenes and toluenes	p. 342
Chlorinated toluenes	p. 348
Chlorinated naphthalenes	p. 351
International legal instruments	p. 363
Global instruments	p. 363
EC environmental legislation	p. 371
Regional Conventions	p. 375
The future for the chlorine industry	p. 385
Sustainability and clean production	p. 385
Pollution control	p. 388
Emerging approaches	p. 394
Transition to clean production	p. 397
Nomenclature of organohalogens	p. 405
Relative properties of the halogens	p. 415
SI units and conversion factors	p. 417
Glossary	p. 419
Abbreviations	p. 425
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