Introduction to Environmental Engineering

INTRODUCTION
Definition of environmental engineering
History and development of environmental engineering
From environmental chemistry and technology to environmental engineering: Understanding and diversify anthropogenic environmental influences
How to determine environmental pollution
The Biological System of the Elements (BSE)
Information and communication
Ethical aspects

THE COMPARTMENTS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
The three environmental compartments and their mutual interactions: lessons for environmental situation analysis and technologies to be learned from copmarative planetology
Properties of Earth's environmental compartments and options to clean them depending on it
A comparison among environmental compartments: phase composition, miscibility towards key reactants and contaminants, transparency and biological activity

INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Criteria for innovation
Examples of innovative environmental technologies

CASE STUDIES
Atmosphere: Biondication and biomonitoring are innovative means for monitoring and controlling environmental situations: the case of atmospheric emission surveillance
Atmosphere: CO2 reduction
Soils and sediments: Phytoremediation by use of organisms
Soils and sediments: Ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) - its chemical properties, persistence, ecological hazards and methods of removal
Water: Reactive walls
Water: Pharmaceuticals in the environment - special emphasis to Diclofenac (Voltaren) - an analgetic agent with difficult and interesting properties
Energy: The need for Renewable Energy

APPENDIX
Literature
Glossary
Index