Industrial Environmental Management

4Industrial Wastewater, Air Pollution, and Solid and Hazardous Wastes: Monitoring, Permitting, Sample Collections and Analyses, QA/QC, Compliance with State Regulations and Federal Standards

4.1 Introduction

This chapter describes and deals with important aspects of selecting the best remedial control technologies for pollutants, managing wastes, monitoring, sampling industrial water, air, and solid and hazardous materials, modes of sample collections, samples analyses by various analytical, physical‐chemical methods approved by governmental agency, quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA), laboratory audits, testing, monitoring, permitting, report keeping, reporting, and compliance with local, state, and federal governments for discharging wastewater, emitting air, pollutants, and safely disposing of solid and hazardous materials.

4.2 Industrial Process Water

In industrial process, the control of the quality of process water can be critical to the quality of the end product. Water is often used as a carrier of reagents and the loss of reagents to product must be continuously monitored to ensure that correct replacement rate is made. Parameters measured relate specifically to the process in use and to any of the expected contaminants that may arise as by‐products. This may include unwanted organic chemicals appearing in an inorganic chemical process through contamination with oils and greases from machinery. Monitoring the quality of the wastewater discharged from ...