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Title:	The fate of hazardous polluting substances in an aqueous environment
Author:	Casani, Robert Paul
View Online:	njit-etd1972-014 ([vii], 47 pages ~ 1.5 MB pdf)
Department:	Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
Degree:	Master of Science
Program:	Chemical Engineering
Document Type:	Thesis
Advisory Committee:	Trattner, Richard B. (Committee chair) Kimmel, Howard S. (Committee member) Perna, Angelo J. (Committee member)
Date:	1972-10
Keywords:	Factory and trade waste Water -- Pollution
Availability:	Unrestricted
Abstract:	The fate of Hazardous Polluting. Substances (HPS) in an aqueous environment has been investigated using ultraviolet light. Chlorobenzene, o-cresol and nitrobenzene were used as model HPS for this study. The kinetics were followed and good first order plots were obtained for all compounds. The temperature of the reaction was shown to effect the rate. Solid insoluble and soluble non-volatile products were formed in the photolytic reaction of the three model systems.