Water supply and pollution control
For upper-division undergraduate or beginning graduate courses in civil and environmental engineering, this text has been revised and modernised to meet the needs of today's environmental engineering students who will be engaged in the design and management of water and wastewater systems.
| Other Authors: | Viessman, Warren. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Upper Saddle River, NJ :
Pearson Prentice Hall,
[2009]
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| Physical Description: |
xviii, 843 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Edition: | 8th ed. |
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| Summary: |
For upper-division undergraduate or beginning graduate courses in civil and environmental engineering, this text has been revised and modernised to meet the needs of today's environmental engineering students who will be engaged in the design and management of water and wastewater systems. |
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| Item Description: |
Revised edition of: Water suppy and pollution control / Warren Viessman, Jr., Mark J. Hammer. 7th ed. 2005. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- Water resources planning and management -- The hydrologic cycle and natural water sources -- The water budget -- Groundwater -- Surface water -- Alternative sources of water supply -- Water use trends and forecasting -- Conveying and distributing water -- Hydraulics -- Water distribution systems -- Hydraulic considerations -- Pressure considerations -- Pumping -- Wastewater collection and stormwater engineering -- Design of sanitary sewers -- Stormwater management -- Water quality -- Microbiological quality -- Chemical quality of drinking water -- Quality criteria for surface waters -- Selected pollution parameters -- Systems for treating wastewater and water -- Overview -- Wastewater treatment systems -- Water treatment systems -- Physical treatment processes -- Flow-measuring devices -- Screening devices -- Mixing and flocculation -- Sedimentation -- Filtration -- Chemical treatment processes -- Chemical considerations -- Reactions in continuous-flow systems--real and ideal reactors -- Coagulation -- Water softening -- Iron and manganese removal -- Disinfection and by-product formation -- Disinfection of potable water -- Disinfection of wastewater -- Taste and odor -- Fluoridation -- Corrosion and corrosion control -- Membrane treatment processes -- Volatile organic chemical removal -- Synthetic organic chemical removal -- Reduction of dissolved salts -- Biological treatment processes -- Biological considerations -- Characteristics of wastewater -- Trickling (Biological) filters -- Activated sludge -- Odor control -- Individual on-site wastewater disposal -- Marine wastewater disposal -- Processing of sludges -- Sources, characteristics, and quantities of waste sludges -- Arrangement of unit processes in sludge disposal -- Gravity thickening -- Gravity belt thickening -- Flotation thickening -- Biological sludge digestion -- Pressure filtration -- Centrifugation -- Cycling of waste solids in treatment plants -- Final disposal or use -- Advanced wastewater treatment processes and water reuse -- Introduction -- Limitations of secondary treatment -- Selection of advanced wastewater treatment processes -- Suspended-solids removal -- Carbon adsorption -- Phosphorus removal -- Nitrogen removal -- Water resuse -- Problems -- Appendix. For upper-division undergraduate or beginning graduate courses in civil and environmental engineering, this text has been revised and modernised to meet the needs of today's environmental engineering students who will be engaged in the design and management of water and wastewater systems. |
| Physical Description: |
xviii, 843 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780132337175 0132337177 9780136068280 0136068286 |