Chemicals in the Environment Toxicology and Public Health
Chemicals in the Environment Toxicology and Public Health
Chemicals in the Environment Toxicology and Public Health
This note addresses
the challenges of defining a relationship between exposure to environmental
chemicals and human disease. Topics covered include epidemiological approaches
to understanding disease causation, biostatistical methods, evaluation of human
exposure to chemicals, and their internal distribution, metabolism, reactions
with cellular components, and biological effects, and qualitative and
quantitative health risk assessment methods used in the U.S. as bases for
regulatory decision-making.
Author(s): Prof.
James Sherley, Dr. Laura Green and Prof. Steven Tannenbaum
This note covers the following topics:
Atmospheric composition and principles of contaminant behavior, Contaminants and
their natural pathways of degradation and their abatement, Air Pollution Control
Technique, Water Pollution, Major Sources of Water Pollution, Water Pollution
Treatment, Soil Pollution.
This note explains the following topics: Thermodynamics,
Chemical Equilibrium, Photochemistry, Photolysis rate, frequency, Chemical
lifetime , Heterogenous Reactions, Chemistry of the upper atmosphere, Chemistry
of the stratosphere, Ozone Hole, Tropospheric chemistry, Tropospheric
chemistry.
This note provides a detailed overview of the chemical
transformations that control the abundances of key trace species in the Earth's
atmosphere. This note covers the following topics: photochemistry, kinetics, and
thermodynamics important to the chemistry of the atmosphere, stratospheric ozone
depletion, oxidation chemistry of the troposphere, photochemical smog, aerosol
chemistry, and sources and sinks of greenhouse gases and other climate forcers.
Environmental
chemistry is a range of concepts from chemistry and various environmental
sciences. Topics covered includes: Environmental Toxicology, Environmental
Chemicals, Environmental Risk Assessment, Organics Chemistry for Environmental
Engineering, Dissolved Oxygen and Its Importance in Environment, COD and Its
Effects on Environment, Total Suspended Solids, pH and Water Chemistry.
The
overall goal of this book is to gain an understanding of the fundamental
chemical processes that are central to a range of important environmental
problems and to utilize this knowledge in making critical evaluations of these
problems.