The updated and expanded guide for handling industrial wastes and designing a wastewater treatment plant The revised and updated second edition of Practical Wastewater Treatment provides a hands-on guide to industrial wastewater treatment theory, practices, and issues. It offers information for the effective design of water and wastewater treatment facilities and contains material on how to handle the wide-variety of industrial wastes. The book is based on a course developed and taught by the author for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. The author reviews the most current industrial practices and goals, describes how the water industry works, and covers the most important aspects of the industry. In addition, the book explores a wide-range of approaches for managing industrial wastes such as oil, blood, protein and more. A comprehensive resource, the text covers such basic issues as water pollution, wastewater treatment techniques, sampling and measurement, and explores the key topic of biological modeling for designing wastewater treatment plants. This important book: Offers an updated and expanded text for dealing with real-world wastewater problems Contains new chapters on: Reverse Osmosis and desalination; Skin and Membrane Filtration; and Cooling tower water treatment Presents a guide filled with helpful examples and diagrams that is ideal for both professionals and students Includes information for handling industrial wastes and designing water and wastewater treatment plants Written for civil or chemical engineers and students, Practical Wastewater Treatment offers the information and techniques needed to solve problems of wastewater treatment.

This volume provides an overview of information drawn from a variety of disciplines that pertain to the efficient management of hazardous materials and wastes.

In 1991 the EU announced a directive regarding urban wastewater treatment. Its objective was to have wastewater collection and treatment for all settlements and nutrient removal for all sensitive areas. These measures needed to be implemented in a short time period, before 2000. The directive resulted in a boost in the applied research towards wastewater treatment and a large investment in new facilities. The 2000 Aquatech conference therefore aimed at evaluating how this directive (or similar directives worldwide) was implemented. The 25 papers selected for these proceedings give an overview of the policies related to nutrient removal in a number of regions. They show the differences in approach and in the results of measures taken. New processes have been developed and existing treatment plants have been upgraded for nutrient removal. Several of these new processes are described together with a number of examples of upgrading of existing facilities. These proceedings provide wastewater engineers, policy-makers and managers with a state-of-the-art view of the approaches that can solve eutrophication problems and minimise the impacts on society and the environment.

Frank Friedman's Practical Guide to Environmental Management, 10th Edition (PGEM) has earned its place among the classic texts on environmental management. PGEM now enters its 10th edition with new material on social responsibility, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, criminal sentencing guidelines, and several other areas. This edition of PGEM retains its focus on the practical, while also surveying the developing trends in environmental management. In this new edition, Friedman does a superb job of orienting the environmental manager in this new era.