Environmental Catalysis - 9781574444629

Perhaps the best known environmental catalytic process is the destruction of stratospheric ozone by atomic chlorine whose elucidation led to the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry. In this volume covering concepts, applications, techniques, and methods involved in environmental catalysis, Grassian (chemistry and chemical and biochemical engineering, U. of Iowa) presents 25 papers that look at environmental catalysis from the perspectives of natural systems of air, water, and soils; environmental remediation; and green chemical processing. Bringing together contributors from the disciplines of chemistry, atmospheric science, plant and soil science, civil and environmental engineering, chemical engineering, and geoscience, among others, the papers explore such topics as precipitation and dissolution of iron and manganese oxides, applications of nonlinear optical techniques for studying heterogeneous systems relevant in the natural environment, surface science studies of DeNO x catalysts, theoretical modeling of zeolite catalysis, nanoparticles in environmental remediation, bioengineering for the in situ removal remediation of metals, and green biphasic homogeneous catalysis. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)