Chemical Property Estimation: Theory and Application [Hardcover]

Edward J. Baum (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0873719387 | ISBN-13: 978-0873719384 | Publication Date: November 30, 1997 | Edition: 1

Chemical Property Estimation describes modern methods of estimating chemical properties, methods which cost much less than traditional laboratory techniques and are sufficiently accurate for most environmental applications. Estimation methods are used to screen chemicals for testing, design monitoring and analysis methods, design clean-up procedures, and verify experimental measurements. The book discusses key methods for estimating chemical properties and considers their relative strenths and weaknesses. Several chapters are devoted to the partitioning of chemicals between air, water, soil, and biota; and properties such as solubility, vapor pressure, and chemical transport.

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Baum offers one of only a few resources on the subject, clearly the most up-to-date... an ambitious effort to compile the theory and application of chemical estimation methods... He fills the gap where measured data on the properties of an ever-increasing number of chemicals in use are absent, thus giving environmental engineers, health and safety scientists, and other applications-oriented professionals a firmer basis on which to make evaluations, predictions, or decisions.
-CHOICE

Product Details

• Hardcover: 386 pages
• Publisher: CRC-Press; 1 edition (November 30, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873719387
• ISBN-13: 978-0873719384
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,103,376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dr Edward Baum is Director of the Center for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Education, Fellow of the Honors College, and Professor of Chemistry at Grand Valley State University. He is or has been a consultant to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, the National Research Council, the Federal Highway Administration, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Weyerhaeuser Corporation and other multinational corporations. His areas of research interest include the origin and fate of pollutants in the environment, characterization of pollution sources, and the analysis of large chemical data bases with machine pattern recognition. He authored one book, Chemical Property Estimation (for updates, see www.chemicalpropertyestimation.com), and 36 peer-reviewed publications and reports.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Author's Statement, January 18, 2000

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Edward Baum (Grand Rapids, Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chemical Property Estimation: Theory and Application (Hardcover)

If you need to know how a chemical is going to behave in the lab or in the environment but can't find measured values of its physical properties, here is a book for you. I wrote this book with environmental specialists in mind, but it will also be useful to engineers, scientists, and other specialists in industry and academia who need to screen chemicals, design industrial processes, design chemical syntheses, monitor and analyze chemicals, or identify outliers in measured values of physical properties. The properties covered are boiling point, melting point, density, vapor pressure, solubility, activity coefficient, air-water partition coefficient, octanol-water partition coefficient, sorption coefficient, bioconcentration factor, diffusivity, and volatility. The methods described are, without exception, easy to apply and properly validated. Input data is readily available for them all. Even so, they give accurate and reliable estimates of the properties of a broad range of interesting chemicals within the normal range of ambient conditions. Statistics, applicability, and example calculations are given for every method described. Lots of reference data on many important environmental contaminants is included, too.