Industrial Chemicals and Environment

Description

Industrial chemicals are chemicals that are developed for use in the industrial processing of chemicals. Some industrial chemicals are only used in industrial production processes while many others are used as ingredients in the commercial products that appear in consumer markets. The class of industrial chemicals is broad, including: solvents, reactants, lubricants, coatings, dyes, colorants, inks, mastics, stabilizers, plasticizers, fragrances, flame retardants, conductors and insulators. Significant exposures to many of these chemicals can result in harmful effects to people or the environment. Industrial Chemistry deals with physical and chemical processes towards the transformation of raw materials into products that are of beneficial to human health. Environmental Chemistry is the scientific study of the chemical and biochemical phenomena that occur in natural places. It can be defined as the study of the sources, reactions, transport, effects, and fates of chemical species in the air, soil, and water environments; and the effect of human activity and biological activity on these. Environmental chemistry is an interdisciplinary science that includes atmospheric, aquatic and soil chemistry, as well as heavily relying on analytical chemistry and being related to environmental and other areas of science. Chemicals, for which there is statistically evidence based on at least one study conducted in accordance with established scientific principles that acute or chronic health effects may occur in exposed employees, is classifies as a health hazard. Health hazards include chemicals that are carcinogens, toxin or highly toxic agents, reproductive toxins, irritants, corrosives, sensitizers, hepatotoxins, nephrotoxins, neurotoxins, agents which act on the hematopietic systems; and agents that damage the lungs, skin, eye or mucous membranes are hazardous chemicals. This book chemicals in the environment describes the chemistry of natural environmental system, their composition ad the processes ad reactions that operate within and between the various components.