Main description:

Hazardous Gases: Risk Assessment on Environment and Human Health examines all relevant routes of exposure, inhalation, skin absorption and ingestion, and control measures of specifics hazardous gases resulting from workplace exposure from industrial processes, traffic fumes, and the degradation of waste materials and how they impacts the health and environment of workers. The book examines the risk assessment and effect of poisonous gases on the environment human health. It also covers necessary emergency guidelines, safety measures, physiological impact, hazard control measures, handling and storage of hazardous gases. Each chapter is formatted to include an introduction, historical background, physicochemical properties, physiological role discussing mechanisms of toxicity, its effect on human health as well as environment, followed by case studies and recent research on toxic gases. Hazardous Gases: Risk Assessment on Environment and Human Health is a helpful resource for academics and researchers in toxicology, occupational health and safety, and environmental sciences as well as those in the field who work to assess and mitigate the impact of toxic gases on the work environment and the health of the workforce.

Contents:

1. Arsenic pentafluoride: Risk assessment and environmental and health hazards Om Singh

2. Arsine: Risk assessment, environmental and health hazard Rakesh Kumar Soni and Om Singh

3. Boron trichloride: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Ravendra Kumar and Nishant Khandelwal

4. Boron trifluoride: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Ashwani Kumar and Nishant Khandelwal

5. Bromine: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Manis Kumar Jha and Sushma

6. Bromine chloride: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Sushma

7. Carbon dioxide: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Malvika Chawla

8. Carbon monoxide: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Raj Nath Yadava and Vipul Bhatt

9. Chlorine: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Malvika Chawla

10. Cyanogen: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Lakshami Prashad Purohit and Sonu Kumar

11. Cyanogen chloride: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Rajeev Jain and Sonu Kumar

12. Diazomethane: Risk assessment and environmental and health hazard Sonu Kumar

13. Fluorine: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Preeti Das and Pooja

14. Formaldehyde: Risk assessment and environmental and health hazards Santosh Kumar Dubey and Preeti Das

15. Hydrogen cyanide: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Manila and Payal Devi

16. Hydrogen selenide: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard C.S. Mathela and Payal Devi

17. Hydrogen sulfide: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Ali Mohammed and Payal Devi

18. Methane: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Nitish Kumar and Himanshu Gupta

19. Methyl bromide: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Rajneesh Dutt Kaushik

20. Methyl isocyanate: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Manila

21. Nitric oxide: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazards Krishan Chandra Singh and Kavita Rawat

22. Nitrogen dioxide: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Sushil K. Pandey and Jaspal Singh

23. Oxygen: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Jaspal Singh

24. Ozone: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazards Kavita Rawat and Gagan Matta

25. Phosgene: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Ashok Kumar Sharma and Nitish Kumar

26. Phosphine: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Karuna Saini and Rajneesh Dutt Kaushik

27. Phosphorus pentafluoride: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Sanjeev Maken and Karuna Saini

28. Silane: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Shuvasish Choudhury, Ajendra Kumar, and Neeraj Kumar

29. Styrene: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Ritu Arora and Manila

30. Sulfur dioxide: Risk assessment, environmental, and health hazard Mayank Kumar Malik and Sonu Kumar