Environmental Chemistry Research Progress -- Contents -- Preface -- Food Crop Mineral Deficiency and Disturbance Stress Mitigation in Temperate Climatic Regions by Economical and Environmental Valorization of Agricultural By-products "PROTECTOR" -- Abstract -- 1. Abbreviations -- 2. Introduction -- 3. General Considerations: The Multidimensional Concerns of the Intensive Crop Production -- 4. Trends in Fertilizer Use -- 5. The Energy Demand of the Intensive Farming -- 6. Nutrient Disturbance in Agricultural and Forest Soil -- 7. The Importance of the Nitrogen Mineral Fertilization -- 8. Environmental Problems of Nitrogen Fertilizers -- 9. The Importance of the Phosphorous Mineral Fertilization -- 10. The Problem with the Effectiveness of Mineral Fertilizers -- 11. Phosphate Rock Is a Finite, Non Renewable Natural Resource -- 12. The Inorganic Contamination of Phosphate Rock (PR) Fertilizers -- 13. The Environmental Risk of Phosphate Fertilizer Industry -- 14. Greenhouse Gas Emission from Intensive Agriculture Activities -- 15. Impact of the Kyoto Protocol on Agriculture -- 16. Global Warming -- 17. Importance of SOM and Effects of Losses of Soil Carbon -- 18. Environmental Benefits of Soil Organic Carbon -- 19. Effects of Biochar Application -- 20. How Much Biochar Can Be Added to Soil? -- 21. Enhanced Soil Microbiological Activity by Charcoal -- 22. Carbon Sequestration -- 23. Biochar Production -- 24. Potential Agrocarbon: Biochar Foodstock Characterization -- 25. The Solution: Integrated Protector Technology for Recycling and Added Value Carbon Economy Upgrading of Organic and Inorganic Agro By-products -- 26. Protectorapplication Targets, Concepts and Priorities -- 27. Development of Alternative Protector Strategies for Different Climatic, Environmental and Soil Conditions -- 28. Sustainability of Protector Technology.

29. Protecting Soil Resources and Combating Climate Change -- 30. Product Permit EU Authority and Commercial Field Cultivation Tests for Validation and Demonstration of Protector Agronomic and Nutrition Effectiveness -- 31. Conclusion -- 32. Future Trends -- 33. Sources of Information and Advice -- References -- Photochemistry of Alkyl Nitrites, Nitro Compounds and Carboxylic Acid: Dynamics of OH Formation -- Abstract -- Introduction -- 2. Experimental Method -- 3. Results and Discussions -- 4. Summary and Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Intelligent Air Quality Monitoring Using Connectionist Models -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Artificial Neural Networks: A Tutorial -- 3. Case Studies -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Environmental Friendly Methods for the Extraction and Determination of Organophosphorus and Organochlorine Pesticides -- Abstract -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Determination of Pesticides by Using Cloud Point Extraction (CPE) -- Determination of Pesticides by Using Microwave Assisted Micellar Extraction (MAME) -- Determination of Pesticides by Using Coupling MAME-SPME and MAME-SPE -- General Conclusions and Future Trends -- References -- New Technology to Improve Processability for Recycled Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate) -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Reactive Modification by Low-Molecular-Weight Compound -- Reactive Modification by Reactive Polymer -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- On the Numerical Solution of Some Problems of Environmental Pollution -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Adjoint Problems -- 3. Numerical Solution of Main and Adjoint Problems -- 4. Rational Location of Industrial Plants -- 5. Optimization of Emissions at Operating Industrial Plants -- 6. Determination of the Coefficients of Diffusion and Transformation of Pollutants -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References.

Manganese Doped Nano-TiO2: Synthesis and Photocatalysis for Acid Red 3R Dye -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experiment Section -- 3. Result and Discussion -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.