Water Pollution: Modelling, Measuring and Prediction
Published on 6. December 2012
762 pages
978-94-011-3694-5 (ISBN)
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Water Pollution is a subject of growing concern in our industrial world. The environmental problems caused by the increase of pollutant loads dis charged into natural water systems have led the scientific community to pursue studies capable of relating the pollutant discharge with changes in the water quality. The results of these studies are permitting industries to employ more efficient methods of controlling and treating the waste loads, and water authorities to enforce more strict legislation regarding this matter. The present book contains edited versions of the papers presented at the First International Conference on Water Pollution (Modelling, Measuring and Prediction), held in Southampton, England, in September 1991. Its contents, which reflect the interdisciplinarity of the subject, are divided into four parts, each consisting of a keynote address and several invited and contributed papers: 1. Mathematical models (Keynote speaker: Prof. R.A. Falconer, Univer sity of Bradford, USA) 2. Data acquisition/monitoring/measurement (Keynote speaker: Dr. A. Plata Bedmar, IAEA, Austria) 3. Waste disposal and wastewater treatment (Keynote speaker: Prof. D.R.F. Harleman, MIT, USA) 4. Chemical and biological problems (Keynote speaker: Dr. E.I. Hamil ton, Environmental consultant, UK) Although the papers have been typographically edited they have been re produced directly from material submitted by the authors, and their content is a reflection of the authors' research and opinion.
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1: Mathematical Models.- Review of Modelling Flow and Pollutant Transport Processes in Hydraulic Basins.- Nitrogen Leaching from Agricultural Soils - A Comparison of Measured and Computer-Simulated Results.- Section 1: Groundwater Contamination.- Modeling Transport in a Double Porosity Medium: An Alternative Approach.- A Combined Use of Simulation and Optimization Techniques in the Solution of Aquifer Restoration Problems.- Application of AI Techniques for Identification of Unknown Groundwater Pollution Sources.- WOLFNET: A Standalone Calculation Program for Groundwater Flow Networks.- A Parametric Study of Gas Migration From an Underground Nuclear Waste Repository.- Section 2: Lakes.- Modelling of Eutrophication and Oxygen Depletion in the Lake Lappajärvi.- A One-Dimensional Turbulence Model for Vertical Transport in Stratified Lakes.- Pollutant Emission from Sewer Systems into Lago Maggiore-Preliminary Survey.- Section 3: Rivers and Channels.- The Modelling of Storm Water Pollution.- Pollutant Transport Studies in the Paraíba do Sul River, Brazil.- The Development of a Conceptual Model for the Degradation of Water Quality in Glacial Meltwater Channels used in River Diversion Schemes in Western Canada.- Exposure Analysis of the Phosphate Substitutes NTA and EDTA by Use of the Surface Water Model EXWAT.- Spatial and Temporal Variability of Water Quality and Optimization of Pollution Monitoring Networks in the Upper Volga River Basin.- Section 4: Sea Pollution.- Eurospill: Chemical Spill Model Based on Modelling Turbulent Mixing at Sea.- Simulation of Shear Dispersion of an Effluent Plume caused by Wind Stress on the Sea Surface.- Section 5: Beach / Coastal Contamination.- Representation of Sources in a 3-D Eulerian-Lagrangian Mass Transport Model.- Determination ofSpill Characteristics of Combined Sewer Overflows and Coastal Storm Outfalls.- Mathematical Modelling of the Effects of Marine Aquaculture Developments on Certain Water Quality Parameters.- Section 6: Numerical Techniques.- Lagrangian Modelling of the Convective Diffusion Problem Using Unstructured Grids and Multigrid Technique.- Merging the Diagnostic and Predictive Property of Canonical Correlation Analysis in Modelling of Biological High Resolution Data in Environmental Studies.- Water Pollution Control with Two-Phase Dense-Bubble Plumes.- II: Data Acquisition/Monitoring/Measurement.- Use of Artificial Tracers for Pollution Dispersion Studies in Surface Water.- Section 1: Remote Sensing.- Landsat 5/Thematic Mapper Images Used to Identify Macroalgae Vegetation in the Venice Lagoon.- Coastal Discharges Monitoring by an Airborne Remote Sensing System.- Section 2: Sediment Transport.- Importance of Sorption Kinetics in the Partitioning of Organic Pollutants from a Point Source onto Suspended Sediments in the Transverse Mixing Zone.- Sorption of Organic Pollutants onto Natural Solid Components in Aquatic Environments.- Section 3: Groundwater Quality.- The Influence of Natural Dissolved Organic Matter Found in Groundwater on the Adsorption and Mobility of Pentachlorophenol.- Groundwater Pollution by Industry.- Section 4: Surface Water Quality.- Modelling Below-Surface Characteristics in Water Reaeration.- The Distribution, Extent and Significance of Nitrification in the Tees Estuary, North-East England.- Using Real-time Physical/Chemical Sensors and In-situ Biological Indicators to Monitor Water Pollution.- A Water Pollution Study of the Venice Lagoon.- A Method to Monitor the Venice Lagoon.- Water Quality Sampling for Nutrient Loading Estimation.- Turbulent Measurementsin Chlorine Contact Tank.- III: Waste Disposal/Waste Water Treatment.- Chemically Enhanced Wastewater Treatment: An Appropriate Technology for the 1990's.- Injection of Geothermal Sludge and Scales into Abandoned Wells - An Opportunity-Based Waste Disposal Alternative.- An Effective Optimization Technique for the Design of Sewer Systems.- Treatment of Piggery Wastes in Portugal: A General Overview.- Biotreatment of Hazardous Leachate.- Cooling Water Reuse and Disposal into Streams.- Biological and Chemical Indices of Sewage Sludge Discharged at Sea.- IV: Chemical and Biological Problems.- Water Quality: An Overview of Some Limitations to Accepted Processes.- Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in Gulf of Mexico Oysters: Overview of the First Four Years of the NOAA's National Status and Trends Mussel Watch Program (1986-1989).- Method and Device of Water Contamination Biotests.- The Effects of Oil Pollution on Seabirds on the German North Sea Coast from 1983 to 1990.- Assessing the Exposure of Fish to a Petroleum Spill in Galveston Bay, Texas.- On the Use of Algal Fluorescence Emission in Ecotoxicological Studies.- Effect of Rainfall Intensity on Acid Rain Formation by Absorption of Sulfur Dioxide.- Authors' Index.
