Environmental Engineering Science,9780471144946

Environmental Engineering Science

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780471144946
ISBN10: 0471144940
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-11-20
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary

This book covers the fundamentals of environmental engineering and applications in water quality, air quality, and hazardous waste management. It begins by describing the fundamental principles that serve as the foundation of the entire field of environmental engineering. Readers are then systematically reintroduced to these fundamentals in a manner that is tailored to the needs of environmental engineers, and that is not too closely tied to any specific application.

Author Biography

William W. Nazaroff and Lisa Alvarez-Cohen are the authors of Environmental Engineering Science, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

I FUNDAMENTALS
Overview
1(29)
What Is Environmental Engineering Science?
1(4)
Domains of Environmental Engineering
5(7)
Water quality engineering
5(3)
Air quality engineering
8(2)
Hazardous waste management
10(2)
Context and Concepts
12(18)
Concentrations and other units of measure
12(3)
Material balance
15(2)
Factors governing contaminant concentrations
17(1)
Engineering analysis
18(1)
Control opportunities
19(1)
Environmental regulations
20(1)
Precision and accuracy
21(1)
Magnitudes: Length scales and characteristic times
22(3)
References
25(1)
Problems
26(4)
Water, Air, and Their Impurities
30(46)
Water and the Hydrosphere
30(6)
Air and the Atmosphere
36(5)
Impurities in Environmental Media
41(35)
Gases dissolved in water
42(1)
Water in air
42(1)
Acids, bases, and the hydrogen ion
43(1)
Inorganic impurities
43(8)
Organic impurities
51(5)
Radionuclides
56(2)
Compounds causing odor, taste, or color
58(1)
Particulate matter
58(7)
Microorganisms
65(4)
References
69(1)
Problems
70(6)
Transformation Processes
76(83)
Governing Concepts
77(15)
Stoichiometry
77(2)
Chemical equilibrium
79(3)
Kinetics
82(10)
Phase Changes and Partitioning
92(14)
Vapor pressure
92(3)
Dissolution of species in water
95(5)
Sorption
100(6)
Acid-Base Reactions
106(13)
Acid-base reactions and the hydrogen ion
107(1)
pH of pure water
107(1)
Strong and weak acids
108(4)
Carbonate system
112(7)
Oxidation-Reduction Reactions
119(40)
Oxidation state
120(1)
Corrosion
121(4)
Combustion
125(4)
Atmospheric oxidation processes
129(2)
Microbial reactions
131(10)
References
141(1)
Problems
142(17)
Transport Phenomena
159(48)
Basic Concepts and Mechanisms
160(12)
Contaminant flux
160(1)
Advection
161(1)
Molecular diffusion
162(4)
Dispersion
166(6)
Particle Motion
172(10)
Drag on particles
172(3)
Gravitational settling
175(5)
Brownian diffusion
180(2)
Mass Transfer at Fluid Boundaries
182(10)
Mass-transfer coefficient
183(5)
Transport across the air-water interface
188(4)
Transport in Porous Media
192(15)
Fluid flow through porous media
193(4)
Contaminant transport in porous media
197(3)
References
200(1)
Problems
200(7)
Transport and Transformation Models
207(73)
Reactor Models
209(38)
Batch reactor
215(5)
Completely mixed flow reactor (CMFR)
220(6)
Plug-flow reactor (PFR)
226(10)
Advanced examples
236(11)
Beyond Ideal Reactors: General Material-Balance Models
247(33)
Governing equation
247(4)
Approaches for solving environmental transport problems
251(14)
References
265(1)
Problems
265(15)
II APPLICATIONS
Water Quality Engineering
280(108)
The Nature of Water Quality Problems
280(19)
Rivers and streams
283(5)
Lakes and reservoirs
288(4)
Groundwater
292(3)
Oceans and estuaries
295(4)
Overview of Water Quality Regulations and Treatment Systems
299(6)
Key U.S. federal water regulations
300(1)
Engineered water quality systems
301(4)
Physical Treatment Methods
305(16)
Sedimentation
305(5)
Filtration through granular media
310(6)
Membrane separation processes
316(5)
Chemical and Physicochemical Treatment Methods
321(25)
Disinfection
321(8)
Coagulation and flocculation
329(4)
Sorption of organic molecules
333(5)
Chemical precipitation and ion exchange
338(8)
Biological Wastewater Treatment
346(42)
Activated sludge
347(8)
Trickling filters
355(3)
Anaerobic digestion of wastewater sludges
358(4)
References
362(2)
Problems
364(24)
Air Quality Engineering
388(96)
Nature of Air Pollution Problems
388(30)
Criteria pollutants
390(5)
Hazardous air pollutants
395(2)
Acid deposition
397(3)
Photochemical smog
400(4)
Indoor air quality
404(7)
Global change
411(7)
Air Pollutant Emissions and Controls
418(24)
Characterizing emissions
419(6)
Pollutant generation by combustion
425(11)
Motor vehicle emissions
436(6)
Treatment Technologies
442(12)
Particle control devices
443(10)
Absorption for gaseous pollutant control
453(1)
Air Quality Models
454(30)
Summary of modeling approaches
455(2)
Gaussian plume dispersion modeling
457(12)
References
469(2)
Problems
471(13)
Hazardous Waste Management
484(176)
Overview
484(15)
History and case studies
485(4)
Hazardous waste regulatory framework
489(6)
Magnitude of the hazardous waste problem
495(3)
Sources of hazardous wastes
498(1)
Hazardous Waste Minimization
499(11)
What is waste minimization?
500(1)
Why should we do it?
500(1)
Techniques for waste minimization
501(5)
Management tools
506(4)
Hazardous Waste Treatment Processes
510(48)
Physical separation
511(15)
Chemical treatment
526(13)
Thermal treatment
539(10)
Biological treatment
549(9)
Hazardous Waste Disposal
558(6)
Landfills
558(3)
Deep-well injection
561(3)
Environmental Releases and Remediation
564(37)
Site characterization
565(3)
Quantitative risk analysis
568(6)
Site remediation
574(12)
References
586(4)
Problems
590(11)
Appendices
A Basic Data for Environmental Engineering Science
601(6)
B Primer on Ionizing Radiation
607(6)
C Primer on Environmental Organic Chemicals
613(7)
C.1 Pure hydrocarbons
614(2)
C.2 Oxygenated organic compounds
616(1)
C.3 Organohalides
617(1)
C.4 Organic compounds containing sulfur or nitrogen
618(2)
D Problem Solving: Mathematics for Environmental Engineering
620(21)
D.1 Ordinary differential equations
620(1)
D.1.a First-order linear equation with constant coefficients
620(3)
D.1.b Coupled first-order ordinary differential equations
623(2)
D.1.c Introduction to the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations
625(2)
D.2 Partial differential equations that arise in transport problems
627(3)
D.3 Solving equilibrium problems: Roots of nonlinear algebraic equations
630(5)
D.4 Data manipulation on a logarithmic scale
635(2)
D.5 Linear regression
637(4)
E A Further Look at Transformation Processes
641(10)
E.1 Activity
641(1)
E.2 Gibbs free energy and equilibrium constants
642(4)
E.3 Electrode potentials and free-energy change in redox reactions
646(2)
E.4 Activation energy and the temperature dependence of reaction rates
648(3)
F United States Federal Regulations for Water and Air Quality
651(9)
Index 660

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