Preface ........................................................ ix
Acknowledgements ............................................. xiii
Chapter 1 Understanding the Environmental Safety of
Surfactants: A Historical Perspective
MARK STALMANS, DARIUS SABALIUNAS AND SCOTT BELANGER
1 Introduction ............................................... 626
2 Main categories of surfactants ............................. 628
3 Concerns over environmental safety of surfactants .......... 629
4 Understanding the environmental properties and safety of
surfactants ................................................ 633
5 Development of chemical analytical methods for
surfactants ................................................ 633
6 Environmental safety of surfactants: landmark cases ........ 641
7 Conclusions ................................................ 649
8 Acronyms ................................................... 650
References ................................................. 651
Chapter 2.1 Ultimate Biodegradation of Ingredients Used in
Cleaning Agents
C.G. VAN GINKEL
1 Introduction ............................................... 655
2 Biodegradability tests . .................................. 657
3 Surfactants ................................................ 660
4 Water-soluble polymers .................................... 682
5 Chelating agents ........................................... 683
References ................................................. 689
Chapter 2.2 Life Cycle Assessment
JOHAN WIDHEDEN AND EMMA RINGSTRÖM
1 Introduction to life cycle assessment ...................... 695
2 LCA within a chemical company .............................. 705
3 LCA of cleaning products ................................... 706
4 Benefits from using LCA .................................... 715
5 LCA in relation to other tools ............................. 716
6 Further reading ........................................... 718
7 Explanations ............................................... 718
References .................................................... 719
Chapter 3 The Ecotoxicity of Cleaning Product Ingredients
JOSEF STEBER
1 Basic aspects of the environmental safety
assessment of chemical substances ............................. 721
2 Assessment of environmental effects ........................ 722
3 Ecotoxicological characterization of cleaning
product ingredients .......................................... 729
References .................................................... 745
Chapter 4 Surface Analytical Techniques Applied to Cleaning
Processes
MARIE ERNSTSSON AND TORBJÖRN WÄRNHEIM
1 Introduction ............................................... 747
2 Surface analytical techniques .............................. 751
3 One example illustrating some useful combinations of
surface analysis techniques -automotive coatings analysed
by XPS, ToF-SIMS, FT-IR (ATR), SEM and EDX ................. 780
4 Conclusions ................................................ 781
Acknowledgements ........................................... 784
References ................................................. 784
Chapter 5 Self-Cleaning Surfaces Using the Lotus Effect
FELIX MÜLLER, WERNER MICHEL, VOLKER SCHLICHT, ANDREA TIETZE
AND PATRICK WINTER
1 Introduction ............................................... 791
2 Applications of the lotus effect ........................... 793
3 Conclusion ................................................. 809
References ................................................. 810
Chapter 6 Anti-Bacteriological Effect of Nanoscaled
Inorganic Particles in Coating Matrices
CHRISTIAN GÖBBERT
1 Introduction ............................................... 813
2 Biocide coatings using nanoscaled silver-coated TiO2
particles .................................................. 816
3 Production of nanopowder ................................... 816
4 Inhibition mechanism of the biocide nanoparticles .......... 818
5 Microbiological testing .................................... 820
6 Conclusion ................................................. 827
References .................................................... 829
Chapter 7 Application of Microemulsions in Cleaning
Technologies and Environmental Remediation
EDGAR J. ACOSTA, JEFFREY H. HARWELL, JOHN F. SCAMEHORN AND
DAVID A. SABATINI
1 Introduction ............................................... 831
2 Microemulsion fundamentals ................................. 832
3 Application of microemulsions in cleaning technologies ..... 846
4 Applications of microemulsions in environmental
remediation ................................................ 864
5 Summary and outlook ........................................ 875
References .................................................... 876
Chapter 8 New Techniques for Optimization of Particulate
Cleaning
PER M. CLAESSON, ALBERT VAN DER WAL AND ANDREW FOGDEN
1 Introduction ............................................... 885
2 Experimental methods and results ........................... 887
3 Summary .................................................... 923
Acknowledgement ............................................... 924
References .................................................... 924
Index ......................................................... 929
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