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Este libro presenta una revisión general de todos los aspectos concernientes al mundo de los plásticos, estructurándose en dos partes bien diferenciadas. En la primera se presentan los materiales plásticos, donde se recoge su historia, naturaleza, diferentes tipos, tecnicas de transformacion, descripcion de las familias mas representativas, propiedades y aplicaciones en los distintos sectores industriales. En la segunda parte se analiza la incidencia medioambiental creada por los residuos de plasticos y se presentan las diferentes alternativas de gestion, asi como las distintas opciones desarrolladas hasta el momento para eliminar estos residuos. En el ultimo capitulo se introduce la metodologia "Analisis del Ciclo de Vida (ACV)" como herramienta medioambiental utilizada en la toma de decision en la gestion mas adecuada a cada tipo de residuos.

En la sociedad actual existe una fuerte demanda de calidad. El libro aborda de una manera amena y rigurosa los distintos aspectos que se deben considerar a la hora de definir, evaluar y gestionar los

Sims Nicholas, Nicholas Roger Alan SimsThe evolution of the disarmament regime of the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) is described from 1980, when the first BTWC Review Conference was held, until 1998. The author analyses the results of our first four review Conferences; the meetings of the Ad Hoc Group of Governmental Experts to Identify and Examine Potential Verification Measures from a Scientific and Technical Standpoint; the 1994 Special Conference; the current negotiations of the Ad Hoc Group to produce an additional protocol the BTWC, which may include verification measures; handling of the 1997 Cuban allegation of US biological warfare; and the implementation of Article X of the BTWC on international transfers and cooperation for peaceful purposes. The strength of the BTWC regime is assessed in the light of its evolution through the review process and its changing contents, including Russia's admission that it had inherited an offensive biological weapon programme. The book applies an original sector-by-sector approach to its analysis of the BTWC, studied in a long-term perspective.

This book details methods of domestic wastewater treatment that are especially suitable in developing countries. The emphasis is on low-cost, low-energy, low-maintenance, high-performance systems that contribute to environmental sustainability by producing effluents that can be safely and profitably used in agriculture for crop irrigation and/or in aquaculture for fish and aquatic vegetable pond fertilization. Modern design methodologies, with worked design examples, are described for waste stabilization ponds (WSP), wastewater storage and treatment reservoirs, constructed wetlands, upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors, biofilters, aerated lagoons, and oxidation ditches. The book provides a foundation to the practical design of wastewater treatment and reuse systems in developing countries, with an emphasis on sustainable and cost-effective technologies, with the goal of reducing wastewater-related diseases and environmental damage. Essential reading for design engineers and academics and upper-level or undergraduate post-graduate engineering students.

Expertos y directivos de un buen número de sectores de la industria química y de procesos realizan un análisis de la situación tecnológica y económica en cada uno de ellos. El balance que se realiza va acompañado de una exposicion de las perspectivas y de los problemas que se presentan. Los nuevos desarrollos tecnologicos, la competitividad global y las normativas en el sector, son algunos de los temas que se desarrollan de forma especifica en cada uno de los capitulos.