In the past few years, environmental protection has become a challenging scientific task whose importance is highlighted by ever-increasing pace of
technological progress throughout the world. The swift industrial development
resulting in increased level of industrial pollution of the environment has
already begun disturbing the ec ological equilibrium in many regions of the
globe. Meanwhile industry continues to develop at unprecedented rates, giving
a powerful impetus to research associated with the location of new industrial
plants and complexes exerting minimum impacts on the environment. The problem
of environmental contamination by industrial plants whose maximum permissible
level of safe pollution is still inconsistent with current requirements has
become even more pressing. All this refers equally to the processes occurring
on land and in the ocean.