Showcasing the very latest technologies for neutralising the unpleasant-and sometimes
dangerous-odours from industrial and waste management processes this Springer Brief in
Environmental Sciences covers physical chemical and biological methods. The volume includes
modern biotechnological approaches now making it cost-effective to tackle malodorous chemicals
at very small concentrations. The book reflects the fact that odour affects us in several ways
which range from compromising our quality of life to causing respiratory and other unpleasant
conditions and from depressing property values to severe health problems caused by the toxic
stimulants of odours. Innumerable industrial processes release malodourous and harmful vapours.
The human sense of smell can detect some noxious chemicals such as the sulphurous by-products
of paper manufacturing at concentrations of one part per billion. This e-book shows what has
been achieved in combating offensive and harmful odours. While conventional air pollution
control technologies can treat a wide variety of pollutants at higher concentrations the
chapters cover the more refined biological methods used to deal with odours and volatile
organic compounds in low concentrations. These include bio scrubbers and bio trickling filters.
Standing alongside its detailed discussion of the health impacts of total reduced sulphur
compounds and the composition of paper pulp industry emissions this publication offers
comprehensive and in-depth treatment of some of the most potent anti-odour technologies yet
devised.
