Environmentally Conscious Materials Handling

Myer Kutz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2009
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-470-17070-0 (ISBN)

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Environmentally Conscious Materials Handling provides a foundation for understanding and implementing methods for reducing the environmental impact of all forms of handling packaged goods, as well as raw, hazardous, and toxic materials. Contributors present relevant practical and analytic techniques to ensure reliable materials handling.

Wiley Series in Environmentally Conscious Engineering

environmentally conscious

Materials Handling

myer kutz

Best practices for environmentally friendly

handling and transporting materials

This volume of the Wiley Series in Environmentally Conscious Engineering helps you understand and implement methods for reducing the environmental impact of handling materials in manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution systems, as well as dealing with wastes and hazardous materials. Chapters have been written by experts who, based on hands-on experience, offer detailed coverage of relevant practical and analytic techniques to ensure reliable materials handling. The book presents practical guidelines for mechanical, industrial, plant, and environmental engineers, as well as plant, warehouse, and distribution managers, and officials responsible for transporting and disposing of wastes and dangerous materials.

Chapters include:

Materials Handling System Design

Ergonomics of Manual Materials Handling

Intelligent Control of Material Handling

Incorporating Environmental Concerns in Supply Chain Optimization

Municipal Solid Waste Management and Disposal

Hazardous Waste Treatment

Sanitary Landfill Operations

Transportation of Radioactive Materials

Pipe System Hydraulics

Each chapter provides case studies and examples from diverse industries that demonstrate how to effectively plan for and implement environmentally friendly materials handling systems. Figures illustrate key principles, and tables provide at-a-glance summaries of key data. Finally, references at the end of each chapter enable you to investigate individual topics in greater depth.

Turn to all of the books in the Wiley Series in Environmentally Conscious Engineering for the most cutting-edge, environmentally friendly engineering practices and technologies. For more information on the series, please visit wiley.com/go/ece.

information services consulting firm. He is the editor of the Mechanical Engineers' Handbook,

Third Edition (4-volume set) and the Handbook of Materials Selection, also published by Wiley.

Myer Kutz is founder and President of Myer Kutz Associates, Inc., a publishing and

Contributors. Preface.

Chapter 1: Materials Handling System Design (Sunderesh S. Heragu).

Chapter 2: Ergonomics of Manual Materials Handling (James L. Smith, Jeffrey C. Wolstad, and Patrick Patterson).

Chapter 3: Intelligent Control of Material Handling (Kasper Hallenborg).

Chapter 4: Accommodating Environmental Concerns in Supply Chain Organization (Maria E. Mayorga and Ravi Subramanian).

Chapter 5. Municipal Solid Waste Management and Disposal (Shoou-Yuh Chang).

Chapter 6: Hazardous Waste Treatment (Mujde Erten-Unal).

Chapter 7: Sanitary Landfill Operations (Berrin Tansel).

Chapter 8: Transportation of Radioactive Materials (Audeen Waters Fentiman).

Chapter 9: Pipe System Hydraulics (Blake Tullis).

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.9.2009
Reihe/Serie	Environmentally Conscious Engineering, Myer Kutz Series
Zusatzinfo	Photos: 42 B&W, 0 Color; Drawings: 60 B&W, 0 Color
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	198 x 243 mm
Gewicht	631 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Logistik / Produktion
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
ISBN-10	0-470-17070-0 / 0470170700
ISBN-13	978-0-470-17070-0 / 9780470170700
Zustand	Neuware