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Environmental issues are a hotspot for the modern industry dedicated to pursuing more sustainable products and processes. They are imposed by environmental law (e.g., analytical parameters to control effluent emissions from processing) and by the market as a differential for investments and to gain market competition (e.g., net-zero carbon emission). Thus, environmental analyses are the ways to control and to monitor the emission of pollutants in the environment by the industrial sectors. Advanced analytical techniques as LC, GC, AAS, and AES/OES to supply quantitative information about the pollutant in aqueous and gaseous effluents are discussed in this chapter. Besides, size distribution analysis to determine the size of the particulate matter and LIBS, to supply quantitative information for carbon footprint, is discussed also. Issues related to analytical matrices and sample preparation are also addressed.
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Vaz Jr, S. (2023). Environmental Issues of Industry. In: Applications of Analytical Chemistry in Industry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38952-8_9
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