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Liquid Effluents: New Solutions to Old Problems
Author(s) -
PhD E. K. MACDONALD
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
water and environment journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1747-6593
pISSN - 1747-6585
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-6593.1991.tb00587.x
Subject(s) - effluent , scrutiny , legislation , nuclear industry , waste management , pollutant , environmental science , emerging technologies , process (computing) , streams , business , process engineering , engineering , computer science , chemistry , artificial intelligence , nuclear engineering , law , operating system , political science , computer network , organic chemistry
Effluent discharges from industrial processes will come under increasingly close scrutiny in the future, as legislation reduces the limits for discharges. Existing processes will, in many cases, be unable to meet the more stringent controls. Therefore a new generation of processes, capable of removing chemical pollutants from waste streams to nanogram levels, needs to be developed. Already the nuclear industry has extensive experience of applying some of these emerging technologies to control radioactive discharges, and is developing these processes further through the collaborative forum of AEA Technology's Effluent Processing Club so that they may be economically applied in the non‐nuclear process and manufacturing industries.