Meet the editor

Rehab O. Abdel Rahman, Associate Professor of Chemical Nuclear Engineering at the Atomic Energy Authority of Egypt, was awarded a Nuclear Engineering PhD from Alexandria University. She has contributed to the publication of more than 30 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 11 book chapters, and seven books. She is an honored scientist of ASRT, serves as a verified reviewer in several journals, and is the managing editor for IJEWM and IJEE.

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3** Introductory Chapter: Development of Assessment Models to Support Pollution

Pollution Prevention and Controls **13**

**Chapter 2 15** The Diesel Soot Particles Fractal Growth Model and Its Agglomeration Control

**Chapter 3 29**

Environmental Assessment **51**

**Chapter 4 53** Herbicides Mechanisms Involved in the Sorption Kinetic of Ionisable and Non Ionisable Herbicides: Impact of Physical/Chemical Properties of Soils and

**Chapter 5 69**

Development of Conceptual Model for Eco-Based Strategic Environmental

Kinetic Modeling of Photodegradation of Water-Soluble Polymers in Batch

*by Dina Hamad, Mehrab Mehrvar and Ramdhane Dhib*

*by Lizethly Caceres Jensen, Angelo Neira-Albornoz* 

**Section 1**

Contents

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

Preventive and Control Decisions *by Rehab O. Abdel Rahman*

*by Ping Liu and Chunying Wang*

Photochemical Reactor

Experimental Conditions

*by Kanokporn Swangjang*

*and Mauricio Escudey*

Assessment

## Contents


Preface

Interest in evaluating the impact of human activities on the environment has increased within the last decade. This interest is reflected in issuing stricter regulations and resources allocations to prevent and control potential negative impacts associated with different human activities. Environmental pollution is one of the adverse impacts of human activities; it is associated with historical and improper routine and accidental release of pollutants into the environment. In general, kinetic models are used to evaluate the driving forces that initiate temporal changes in any system and quantify these changes. These models are widely applied to design and optimize systems that support pollution prevention and control measures, i.e. different waste management activities and remediation projects. This book aims to present advances in developing and applying different kinetic models to support pollution prevention and control efforts. The authors summarize their experiences and present advances in different fields related to the presented topics. The book targets professional people in environmental industry and readers with technical backgrounds such as graduate and postgraduate students undertaking courses in environmental chemistry, ecology, and environmental engineering.

The book consists of three sections that cover important research and development efforts in modeling environmental systems. The first section introduces the assessment models as tools to support pollution prevention and control decisions. The editor describes the integration between the research and assessment models with special emphases on pollutant migration, presents the iterative nature of the assessment models, and explains the development of conceptual models by illustrating models that could be used to predict pollutant migration in different environmental subsystems. The chapter presents computational model selection and highlights simple models that could be used to estimate migration in terrestrial subsystems.

The second section highlights the development of kinetic models that could be used to support research efforts in preventing and controlling pollution generation. Prof. Liu and Dr. Wang present the development of a model that could be used to understand and analyze the physical mechanism and non-equilibrium condensation growth kinetics of carbon particles released from diesel engines. The chapter explains the condensation growth process and its control for soot particles using the Monte Carlo method. Dr. Hamad et al. develop a kinetic model to describe polyvinyl alcohol degradation in the advanced oxidation process. The model considers photolysis, polymer chain scission, and mineralization reactions to describe degradation, and the effect of the operating conditions are evaluated. The statistical moment approach was applied to model the molar population balance of live and dead polymer chains taking into account the probabilistic chain scissions of the

The third section displays environmental assessment studies for herbicide application, and development of a conceptual model for strategic environmental assessment. Prof. Jensen et al. present the results of a research effort to identify the features of ionizable and non-ionizable herbicides on volcanic ash-derived soils. The chemical and physical properties of both variable- and constant-charge

polymer.
