Industrial Water Quality, 3rd Edition

The Third edition of Industrial Water Quality provides guidance on state-of-the-art methods for optimizing or upgrading existing wastewater treatment systems, as well as selecting the best treatment options to solve specific wastewater problems. This is a useful reference that includes coverage of today’s more stringent water-quality regulations, as well as the new technologies that have been developed to meet them. The book is also filled with examples and case studies from a variety of industries. Additional topics include reverse osmosis or alternative membrane processes and Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) processes. 984pp.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Source and Characteristics of Industrial Wastewaters
• Chapter 2. Wastewater Treatment Processes
• Chapter 3. Pre- and Primary Treatment
• Chapter 4. Coagulation, Precipitation and Metals Removal
• Chapter 5. Aeration and Mass Transfer
• Chapter 6. Principles of Aerobic Biological Oxidation
• Chapter 7. Biological Wastewater Treatment Processes
• Chapter 8. Adsorption
• Chapter 9. Ion Exchange
• Chapter 10. Chemical Oxidation
• Chapter 11. Sludge Handling and Disposal
• Chapter 12. Miscellaneous Treatment Processes
• Chapter 13. Pollution Sources and Control of Residuals from Exploration and Production of Oil and Natural Gas
• Chapter 14. Chlorinated Compounds, VOCs, and Odor Control
• Chapter 15. Waste Minimization and Water Reuse
• Chapter 16. Cost Allocation of Superfund and Other Disposal Sites to Industrial Potentially Responsible Parties (PRP)
• Chapter 17. Industrial Pretreatment to Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs)
• Chapter 18. Industrial Environmental Economics & Environmental Economics from the Consultant and Client Perspectives
• Bibliography