Handbook of Detergents - Part B: Environmental Impact

Hard Cover  1120pp, illustrated  ISBN 0824703537      £109.00

• Applies environmental risk assessments to detergent ingredients in detergent formulations
• Introduces the life cycle assessment as a new tool for profiling the environmental impact of detergent consumer products
• Studies detergent packaging from an environmental standpoint
• Evaluates the biodegradation of anionic, cationic, and amphoteric surfactants
• Appraises the environmental ramifications of inorganic detergent builders, perborates, bleaching activators, and aminocarboxylate chelating agents
• Gauges environmental concerns associated with linear alkylbenzene sulfonates, alcohol ethoxylates, alkylphenol ethoxylates, and alkyl polyglycosides
• Deals with environmental issues associated with pesticide formulations incorporating surfactant ingredients

The second installment of the multivolume Handbook of Detergents, this reference deals with the potential environmental impact of detergents - including surfactants, builders, sequestrants, chelating and bleaching agents, plus other components of detergent formulations - as a result of their production, formulation, usage, consumption, and disposal. This volume constitutes a comprehensive treatise of the multidimensional issues involved and emphasizes the alignment of scientific knowledge with the relevant contemporary data and methodologies in toxicology, ecotoxicology, and environmental risk assessment.

PARTIAL CONTENTS

Sustainable Relationships: Raw Materials-Surfactant/Detergent Production/Formulation-Usage/Consumption -Environment: A Systemic Challenge for the New Millennium
Uri Zoller
Detergents and the Environment: Historical Review
Marcel Friedman
Distribution, Behavior, Fate, and Effects of Surfactants and Their Degradation Products in the Environment
Guang-Guo Ying
Relevance of Biodegradation Assessments of Detergent/Surfactants
M. Rodriguez and D. Prats
Toxicology and Ecotoxicology of Detergent Chemicals
Yutaka Takagi, Shinya Ebata, and Toshiharu Takei
Generation and Use of Data to Predict Environmental Concentrations for Use in Detergent Risk Assessments
M. S. Holt and K. K. Fox
Life Cycle Assessment: A Novel Approach to the Environmental Profile of Detergent Consumer Products
Erwan Saouter, Gert van Hoof, and Peter White
Biodegradability and Toxicity of Surfactants
Torben Madsen
The Biodegradability of Detergent Ingredients in an Environmental Context: A Practical Approach
John Solbé
Environmental Risk Assessment of Surfactants: Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships for Aquatic Toxicity
David W. Roberts
Environmental Impacts of Detergent Packaging: The Case of Plastic Bottles
Susan E. Selke
European Environmental Safety Legislation on Detergents
José Luis Berna
The Application of Environmental Risk Assessment to Detergent Ingredients in Consumer Products
Christina Cowan-Ellsberry, Scott Belanger, Donald Versteeg, Geert Boeije, and Tom Feijtel To find similar publications, click on a keyword below:
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