Water and Wastewater Technology
2nd Edition
Published on 1. January 1986
Book
Hardback
550 pages
978-0-471-05650-8 (ISBN)
Description
A comprehensive introduction to municipal water supply and waste-water disposal technology designed for environmental engineering and civil engineering courses. Provided in the book is a basic review of the chemistry, biology, hydraulics and hydrology necessary to understand water and waste-water technologies. The book covers, in a traditional fashion, water distribution and processing separately from waste-water collection and treatment. The second edition includes the latest technology, showing how to use lasers to lay sewer pipe and high- purity oxygen to treat sludes. Also presented are new procedures for determining BOD of industrial and land disposal and additional data on operations and maintenance. The book uses English units, showing the translations to metric.
More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
illustrations, index
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 200 mm
Weight
1276 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-05650-8 (9780471056508)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Chemistry; Biology; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Water Quality and Pollution; Water Distribution Systems; Water Processing; Operation of Waterworks; Wastewater Flows and Characteristics; Wastewater Collection Systems; Wastewater Processing; Operation of Wastewater Systems; Advanced Wastewater Treatment; Water Reuse and Land Disposal; Appendix; Index.