Beschreibung:
This book is a compendium of essential knowledge about remedial alternatives to address today's public health and environmental threats from coal tar. It combines scientific data with common sense and empirical lore passed down from generations of gas professionals. Almost encyclopedic in scope, it offers 265 tables of facts and associations to clarify the corresponding and interrelated conditions and factors necessary to define site-specific gas plant conditions. With 375 historic photographs and drawings and an extensive glossary, this book is an indispensible tool for gaining a working understanding of potential and actual gas plant contamination.
History of Manufactured Gas and Coal-Tar Activities. Gas Manufacturing Processes (I): Coal Gas and Carbureted Water Gas (Lowe). Gas Manufacturing (II) Secondary Processes: Gas-Manufacturing Processes Other Than Coal Gas and Carbureted Water Gas. Third-Level Gas-Related Processes. Gasworks Components (I): Generation through Clarification (or Pre-Purification). Gasworks Components (II): Purification and Storage. Historic Sources, Mechanisms, and Choices Responsible for Coal-Tar Site Contamination. Historic Technical Literature of Manufactured Gas. Site and Waste Characterization for Coal-Tar Contamination. Selection and Construction of Remedy: A Commendation to the "RPM. FMGP Regulatory and Legal Considerations for Remedial Engineers and Scientists. Appendices. Consolidated References.