Description
Part 1 of this book is written for use by the following readers: students taking coursework relating to public water supply, waste-water engineering or stream sanitation, practicing environmental (sanitary) engineers; regulatory officers responsible for the review and approval of engineering project proposals; operators, engineers, and managers of water and/or wastewater treatment plants; and any other professionals, such as chemists and biologists, who have gained some knowledge of water/wastewater issues. This work will benefit all operators and managers of public water supply and of wastewater treatment plants, environmental design engineers, military environmental engineers, undergraduate and graduate students, regulatory officers, local public works engineers, lake managers, and environmentalists.
The chapters in Part 1 present the basic principles and concepts relating to water/wastewater engineering and provide illustrative examples of the subject. To the extent possible, examples rely on practical field data. Each of the calculations provided herein are solved step-by-step in a streamlined manner that is intended to facilitate understanding. Calculations (step-by-step solutions) range from calculations commonly used by operators to more complicated calculations required for research or design.
Advances and improvements in many fields are driven by competition or the need for increased profits. It may be fair to say, however, that advances and improvements in environmental engineering are driven instead by regulation. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets up maximum contaminant levels, which research and project designs must reach as a goal. The step-by-step solution examples provided in this book are informed by the integration of rules and regulations on every aspect of waters and wastewaters. The author has performed an extensive survey of literature on surface and groundwaters encountered in environmental engineering and compiled them in the following chapters. Rules and regulations are described as simply as possible, and practical examples are given.
The following chapters include calculations for basic science, surface waters ground water, drinking water treatment, and wastewater engineering. Chapter 1.1 covers conversion factors between the two measurement systems, the United States (US) customary system and the System International (SI), basic mathematics for water and wastewater plant operators, fundamental chemistry and physics, and basic statistics for environmental engineers.
Table of Contents
Pt. 1 Calculations ofWater Quality Assessment and Control
01 Basic Science and Fundamentals
02 Streams and Rivers
03 Lakes and Reservoirs
04 Groundwater
05 Fundamental and Treatment Plant Hydraulics
06 Public Water Supply
07 Wastewater Engineering
Pt. 2 SolidWaste Calculations
08 Thermodynamics used in Environmental Engineering
09 Basic Combustion and Incineration
10 Practical Design of Waste Incineration
11 Calculations for Permitting and Compliance
12 Calculational Procedures for Ash Stabilization and Solidification
13 Incineration Technologies and Facility Requirements Pt. 3 Air Pollution Control Calculations
14 Air Emission Control
15 Particulate Emission Control
16 Wet and Dry Scrubbers for Emission Control
17 Air Toxic Risk Assessment
18 Fundamentals Of Fuel Cell Technologies