Sanitary and municipal engineering Books

"Reclamation of Water From Sewage and Industrial Wastes: Progress Report Volume No. 68-62" presents findings on water reclamation techniques from the early 1960s. This historical document offers insights into the methods and technologies employed to...

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) have lowered prices and increased production but with economic, ecological, and environmental costs that can only be solved by enforced legislation. Discussing this recent agricultural trend, Environmental...

The delicate and powerful connections between humanity, nature, and justice are woven together with both urgency and hope. Each poem presents a call to action - an invitation to reflect on our relationship with the earth, to confront the injustices that...

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. The activated sludge process is one of the most versatile and commonly used wastewater treatment systems in the world. In the past, when industrial wastewater treatment focused on removing biological...

Efficient Management of Wastewater from Manufacturing is an accessible research compendium, highly useful for anyone involved with the phytosanitaries, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, or textile industries. The editor, Victor Monsalvo, is a...

Providing step-by-step procedures for planning, design, construction, and operation, this book discusses technical and non-technical issues commonly found in the planning and design reports prepared by practicing engineers for wastewater treatment...

This text compiles information about ozonation kinetics of compounds for water and wastewater treatment professionals in a single volume. Application of kinetics to the evaluation, design, and implementation of ozone technology is discussed, along with...

Well rehabilitation techniques have been the focus of major advancements in recent times. Environmental engineers can keep pace with those changes with the book Water Well Rehabilitation.Written from a microbiological viewpoint, the text outlines proven...

This extensively revised and updated second edition presents major revisions of several chapters, reflecting the theoretical and practical knowledge that has been gained since the publication of the previous edition a decade ago. In addition, it...

Tolerance, the ability of populations to cope with the chemical stress resulting from toxic contaminants, has been described in many organisms from bacteria to fungi, from phytoplankton to terrestrial flowering plants, and from invertebrates such as...

The Tank Cascade System of Sri Lanka is internationally recognized by FAO and the UN as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System for food security and sustainable development in a changing climate. This edited volume gives a comprehensive and...

This book introduces the basic principles of consulting contaminant hydrogeology and provides basic information to neophyte hydrogeologists, so that sufficient subsurface data is available to build the basic geologic, hydrogeologic, and contaminant...

Quality Assessment of Water and Wastewater describes methods for ascertaining the quality and contamination levels of waters from a range of sources like ground, surface, potable water supplies, marine, beaches, swimming pools and other recreational...

As the world population grows, already burgeoning cities are becoming taxed in every conceivable way. One topic that receives few headlines, but significantly impacts an area's quality of health and economic development is the challenge to maintain...

This new book covers drinking water regulations such as disinfectant by-products, synthetic organics, inorganic chemicals, microbiological contaminants, volatile organic chemicals, radionuclides, fluoride, toxicological approaches to setting new national...

This book gives an overview of Fenton process principles, explains the main factors influencing this technology, includes applications, kinetic and thermodynamic calculations, presents a strong overview on the heterogeneous catalytic approach, and shows...

Updated throughout for this new edition, Water Distribution System Monitoring describes the latest water quality monitoring approaches, techniques, and equipment that will assist water utilities stay in compliance with the "Lead and Copper Rule" and...

Climate change is expected to modify the hydrological cycle and affect freshwater resources. Groundwater is a critical source of fresh drinking water for almost half of the world's population and it also supplies irrigated agriculture. Groundwater is...

Urban development and migration from rural to urban areas are impacting prime agricultural land and natural landscapes, particularly in the less developed countries. These phenomena will persist and require serious study by those monitoring global...

Karstified rocks of different lithology cover more than 10% of the continental surface of our planet. It is known that some 20% or even a few percent more of the global population largely depends on karstic groundwater but in many karst areas all over...

Environmental Sustainability Using Green Technologies explains the role of green engineering and social responsibility in the development of chemicals, processes, products, and systems. Examining the relationship between economy, ecology, and...

The focus of the book is on how to use mass and heat balances to simulate and design biological wastewater treatment processes. All the main processes for biological wastewater treatment are covered viz. activated sludge processes for carbon and nitrogen...

This book covers theoretical aspects of adsorption, followed by an introduction to molecular simulations and other numerical techniques that have become extremely useful as an engineering tool in recent times to understand the interplay of different...

WHARVES AND PIERS THEIR DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND EQUIPMENT by CARLETON GREENE, A. B., C. E. Originally published in 1917. PREFACE: THIS book has been written in response to an editorial in one of the engineering journals calling attention to the lack of...

As the coastal human population increases in the United States, there will likely be increasing environmental and socioeconomic pressures on our coastal and estuarine environments. Monitoring the condition of all our...

The marginal price elasticities estimated by Martinez-Espineira conforms to expectation. The price specification that accounts for the changing proportion of water users in each block yields a higher elasticity (-0. 47)...

Die Feldholzzucht (1878) von Rudolf Fischer ist ein Buch, das sich mit der Kultivierung von Feldholz befasst. Das Buch beschreibt die verschiedenen Arten von Feldholz und wie man sie am besten anbaut und pflegt, um eine hohe Qualit�����t und...

Le livre ""Compte-Rendu Des Travaux Des Conseils D'Hygiene Publique Et De Salubrite Du Departement De L'Isere: Pendant Les Annees 1869-1873 (1875)"" par Ch. Lory est un rapport d�����taill����� des travaux effectu�����s par les conseils d'hygi�����ne...

Phycoremediation of Wastewater: Practical Applications for Sustainability focuses on the latest developments in water remediation, as well as the major challenges faced by municipalities implementing large scale phycoremediation operations.

In the past decade there has been a rapid increase in waterborne outbreaks of disease associated with viral and protozoan agents, normally in drinking waters that were found to be microbially safe using the Coliform Index.For nearly a quarter of a...

This book examines some of the successes and failures of actual implementation of modern water policy options in the light of the principles and concepts which have emerged from the Rio Earth Summit, the Dublin Statement and other international consensus...

Water Quality Data emphasizes the interpretation of a water analysis or a group of analyses, with major applications on ground-water pollution or contaminant transport. A companion computer program aids in obtaining accurate, reproducible results, and...

Photodegradation of Water Pollutants, the only complete survey available of current photocatalytic methods for treating water pollutants, covers all aspects of light-stimulated detoxification. Ideal for researchers and students, this new book explains...

Part - I. BASIC INFORMATION - Part - II. MAJOR INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS - Chapter 1. Basic Information - Chapter 2. Summary of Industrial Effluents - Effects of Industrial Effluents - National & International Agencies - Important Reference Books - ...

PARTIAL CONTENTS - PART - I. BOILER BASICS - Chapter 1. Boiler - An Introduction -Chapter 2. Classification of Boilers -Chapter 3. Common Terms and Explanation -PART - II. BOILER WATER TROUBLES -Chapter 4. Impurities in Water and Their Effects -Chapter 5...

This book provides a complete introduction to plumbing services. It explains the principles and provides practical examples of the planning, design, installation and maintenance of the plumbing technologies applicable to single-storey buildings,...

Over 50 percent of the 6,900 million dry tons of sewage sludge generated each year in the United States is land applied. The principal controversies surrounding the land application of biosolids involve heavy metals and pathogens. Land Application of...

Mixing Models for Water Quality Management in Rivers: Continuous and Instantaneous Pollutant Releases.- Three-Dimensional Model of Flow and Mixing Processes in Open Channels.- Horizontal Mixing in Shallow Flows.- On the Theoretical Prediction of...

The book is made up of about ten (10) chapters that will particularly focus on advanced research in the use of timely and useful innovative techniques in the synthesis of novel magnetic biosorbents using facile synthesis methods, their characterization,...

This book consolidates and summarizes smart technologies like IoT, edge computing, and AI used in different aspects of waste material management, mitigation, and recycling for a sustainable environment. One of the cases explains how IoT-based systems and...

This report provides a detailed analysis of New York State's water storage capabilities at the turn of the 20th century. From reservoirs to aqueducts to sewers, the commission examined every aspect of the state's water systems. This volume is a must-read...

CONTENTSChapter - 1. Introduction;Chapter - 2. Characteristics of Cotton Textile Processing Effluents;Sizing ;Desizing ;Scouring ;Bleaching ;Mercerizing ;Dyeing ;Printing ;Finishing ;Combined Effluent ;Chapter - 3. Treatment of Cotton Textile Processing...

Cooling Water Treatment Principles and Practices: Charts and Notes For Field Use; Is the companion field guide handbook to Cooling Water Treatment Principles and Practices by Colin Frayne. In this handbook you will find many helpful formulas for use in...

In the last twenty years, policy makers in Australia have been forced to acknowledge that it is not possible to perpetually supply more water at a low cost. Consequently, the country has begun to focus on water resource management through legislative and...