Mtbe: Effects on Soil and Groundwater Resources (Google eBook)

Jacques Guertin, Christy Herron, James A. Jacobs

CRC Press, Dec 12, 2010 - Technology & Engineering - 264 pages

Written by an expert team of scientists, engineers, and toxicologists, MTBE: Effects on Soil and Ground-Water Resources provides complete in-depth coverage of the assessment and potential remediation strategies of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE). In addition to a history and overview of fuel oxygenates and MTBE, the book contains the latest information on:

Physical and chemical properties

Toxicity and health effects

Taste and odor thresholds

Transport and fate in the environment

Detection and treatment in soil and groundwater

Environmental policy

Get rapid access to the precise data you need with:

Dozens of tables and diagrams

Safety data sheets

State-by-state clean-up standards

Useful web sites

Geological principles

Subsurface investigation tools

Synthesis, properties, and environmental breakdown products

Plume geometries

Remediation strategies

Toxicity and human health risk calculations

Extensive conversion tables

MTBE: Effects on Soil and Ground-Water Resources examines and clarifies every issue in the national debate on this controversial environmental problem.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• 12 Introduction to the MTBE problem: 2
• 13 Some facts about MTBE: 4
• 14 How to read this publication: 5
• Endnotes and references: 6
• History and overview of fuel oxygenates and MTBE: 7
• environmental headache or public good?: 12
• Endnotes and references: 14
• Physical and chemical properties of MTBE: 17
• Endnotes and references: 21
• Toxicity health effects and taste and odor thresholds of MTBE: 23
• 42 Toxicology: 24
• 43 Cancer effects: 26
• 44 Noncancer effects: 27
• aquatic toxicity: 28
• 47 Key issues: 29
• Transport and fate of MTBE in the environment: 31
• 52 Importance of transport and fate assessments in environmental restoration projects: 32
• 53 Physical and chemical characteristics of MTBE important to its transport and fate: 34
• 54 Transport and fate of MTBE in the atmosphere: 37
• 55 Transport and fate of MTBE in surface waters: 38
• 56 Transport and fate of MTBE in groundwater: 40
• 57 Implications of MTBE transport and fate characteristics for environmental restoration projects: 43
• Endnotes and references: 45
• Detection and treatment of MTBE in soil and groundwater: 49
• 63 Validated methods for detection of MTBE in drinking water: 50
• 65 Methods of analysis for detection of MTBE in other media: 52
• 66 Analysis of other gasoline additives: 53
• 67 Variations in analysis resulting from presence of BTEX constituents: 54
• Endnotes and references: 62
• MTBE A perspective on environmental policy: 65
• 72 The making of environmental policy: 66
• 73 Comparison of diverse state policies: 67
• policy and transition: 70
• Endnotes and references: 75
• Conclusions and recommendations: 77
• 82 Conclusions: 79
• 83 Challenges for the future: 80
• Glossary of technical terms and acronyms used in this book: 83
• Conversions for international system SI metric and United States units: 87
• Material safety data sheets MTBE and gasoline: 95
• Summary of MTBE statebystate cleanup standards: 107
• Geologic principles and MTBE: 109
• E2 Hydrogeology: 111
• E3 Porosity permeability and diagenesis: 112
• E4 Sedimentary sequences and fades architecture: 118
• E5 Structural style and framework: 139
• E6 Seismicity: 145
• MTBE subsurface investigation and cleanup: 151
• F3 Drilling and MTBE sampling techniques: 153
• F4 Overview of drilling methods: 154
• F5 Conventional drilling methods: 165
• F6 Conventional soil sampling: 168
• F7 Installation of groundwater monitoring wells and well points: 170
• F8 Groundwater sampling protocols: 173
• Endnotes and references: 175
• Synthesis properties and environmental fate of MTBE and oxygenate chemicals: 177
• G2 Potential oxygenate alternatives to MTBE: 179
• G3 Properties of the selected oxygenates and aromatics: 180
• Endnotes and references: 182
• Plume geometries for subsurface concentrations of MTBE: 183
• H2 MTBE forensic tools and plume geometries: 184
• Endnotes and references: 191
• Toxicity of MTBE human health risk calculations: 193
• example calculation 1: 194
• I3 Calculation of exposure concentration for specified incremental risk child: 195
• I4 Calculation of ingestion CPF: 196
• MTBE web sites: 199
• Summary of MTBE remediation technologies: 203
• K2 Summary of soil remediation for MTBE: 204
• Endnotes and references: 210
• Bibliography and reading list: 211
• Index: 235

Popular passages

Page 1 - The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mtbe: Effects on Soil and Groundwater Resources
• Editors: Jacques Guertin, Christy Herron, James A. Jacobs
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: CRC Press, 2010
• ISBN: 142003247X, 9781420032475
• Length: 264 pages
• Subjects: Science / Environmental Science; Technology & Engineering / Environmental / General; Technology & Engineering / Environmental / Water Supply