1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910132486103321

Titolo

Solid wastes management / / edited by Stephen Burnley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Milton Keynes, England : , : Wiley : , : In association with The Open University, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-86394-1

1-118-86392-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Disciplina

628.445

Soggetti

Refuse and refuse disposal - Management

Technology - Waste management

Waste disposal in the ground

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Section 1: Wastes basics""; ""1.1 Introduction""; ""1.2 What is waste?""; ""1.3 Waste categories""; ""1.4 Waste quantities and composition""; ""1.5 Household wastes""; ""1.6 Waste policy and regulation""; ""1.7 Waste reduction and reuse""; ""1.7.1 Reduction and reuse in the home""; ""1.7.2 Commercial and industrial waste reduction""; ""1.8 Summary""; ""Section 2: Waste management technologies""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 Landfill""; ""2.2.1 Regulation""; ""2.2.2 Site operation""; ""2.2.3 Site restoration and after-use""

""2.2.4 Gas and leachate formation and composition""""2.2.5 Gas control""; ""2.2.6 Gas combustion""; ""2.2.7 Leachate control""; ""2.2.8 Leachate treatment""; ""2.3 Waste incineration""; ""2.3.1 Conventional incineration""; ""2.3.2 Fluidised bed incineration""; ""2.3.3 Emissions abatement technologies""; ""2.3.4 Performance of pollution abatement plant""; ""2.3.5 Solid residue treatment""; ""2.4 Advanced thermal processing techniques""; ""2.4.1 Gasification""; ""2.4.2 Pyrolysis""; ""2.4.3 Use of advanced thermal processes""; ""2.5 Anaerobic digestion""; ""2.5.1 Process""

""2.5.2 Gas and digestate use""""2.5.3 Digestion performance � a case



study""; ""2.6 Composting""; ""2.6.1 Process""; ""2.6.2 Biofilters""; ""2.6.3 Composting technology: windrows and static piles""; ""2.6.4 Enclosed systems""; ""2.6.5 Uses of composts""; ""2.6.6 Legislation""; ""2.7 Materials recycling""; ""2.7.1 Recycling potential""; ""2.7.2 Collection""; ""2.7.3 Processing""; ""2.8 Mechanical�biological treatment""; ""2.8.1 Simple biostabilisation plant""; ""2.8.2 More complex SRF-producing processes""; ""2.8.3 Complex materials, energy and compost plant""; ""2.8.4 SRF and RDF""

""2.9 Summary""""Section 3: Waste management process and environmental impact modelling""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 Leachate formation within a landfill""; ""3.2.1 Water balance""; ""3.2.2 Water-retention characteristics""; ""3.2.3 Evapotranspiration and run-off""; ""3.2.4 Minimising leachate""; ""3.3 Other landfill processes""; ""3.3.1 Leachate migration through site liners""; ""3.3.2 Leachate migration beyond the liner""; ""3.3.3 Predicting landfill gas generation""; ""3.3.4 Landfill gas engine emissions dispersion""; ""3.4 Incineration emissions""; ""3.5 Life-cycle assessment""

""3.5.1 Case study: stages 1 and 2""""3.5.2 Case study: stages 3 and 4""; ""3.5.3 Waste system model""; ""3.6 Summary""; ""Section 4: Health impacts of waste management""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Emissions and impacts""; ""4.3 Critical reading of the literature""; ""4.4 Assessing the health impacts of waste management""; ""4.5 Health and safety issues associated with waste collection""; ""4.6 Health impacts of landfill""; ""4.7 Health impacts of incineration""; ""4.8 Health impacts of recycling and biological processing""; ""4.8.1 Bioaerosols""; ""4.8.2 Dust""

""4.8.3 Emission levels and control measures""



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996389305503316

Autore

Sutton Christopher <1565?-1629.>

Titolo

Disce mori [[electronic resource] =] : Learne to die. : A religious discourse, mouing euery Christian man to enter in to a serious remembrance of his ende. Wherein also in contained the meane and manner of disposing himselfe to God, before and at the time of his departure. In the whole, somewhat happily may be obserued, necessary to be thought vpon while we are aliue, and when we are dying, to aduise ourselues and others.

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by I. Windet, for Cutbert Burby, and are to be solde at his shop at the Exchange., 1604

Descrizione fisica

[47], 483, [21] p. : ill

Soggetti

Death

Christian life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title within border of printers' ornaments; initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Dedication signed: Christ. Sutton.

Signatures: A-Z¹².

Includes index.

Imperfect: faded and tightly bound with considerable loss of text; pages 267-272, 281-286, 293-310, 395-398, 419-422 lacking.

Reproduction of original in: Folger Shakespeare Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0055