Environmental Engineering, 3rd Edition, is a balanced and up-to-date presentation of the core concepts of sustainable design — providing a mass-and-energy approach to the biology and chemistry of the environment while emphasizing the development of innovative and resilient solutions to environmental challenges. Clear and engaging chapters, written by leaders in their respective areas of expertise, cover environmental risk and measurements, physical processes, water resources, air-quality engineering, solid-waste management, and many more critical topics.
Now in its third edition, this comprehensive textbook offers up-to-date perspectives on recent regulatory and policy issues relevant to sustainable development, explores innovative engineering solutions to global problems, and discusses emerging topics such as green chemistry, biomimicry, and life cycle thinking. Throughout this new edition, classroom-proven pedagogical tools develop students’ design skills and strengthen their understanding of fundamental principles. Now offered in enhanced ePub format, Environmental Engineering is an invaluable resource for students seeking to design solutions that meet current and future sustainability challenges.
James R. Mihelcic is the Samuel L. and Julia M. FlomEndowed professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of South Florida. There he directs the Center for Reinventing Aging Infrastructure for Nutrient Management and an Engineering for International Development program that allows students to combine their graduate studies with international service and research in the Peace Corps (or NGO) as water/sanitation engineers (he also directs a Coverdell Fellows program for returned Peace Corps volunteers). His teaching and research interests are centered around engineering and sustainability, specifically understanding how global stressors influence water and wastewater management and provision of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in humanitarian/development situations. Dr. Mihelcic is an Associate Editor for Environmental Science and Technology and Environmental Science and Technology Letters. He served two terms as a member of the Environmental Protection Agency's Chartered Science Advisory Board, is a past president of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), a Board Certified Environmental Engineering Member, and past Board Trustee with the American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists (AAEES). Dr. Mihelcic is lead author for two other textbooks: Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering (John Wiley & Sons, 1999) (translated into Spanish) and Field Guide in Environmental Engineering for Development Workers: Water, Sanitation, Indoor Air (ASCE Press, 2009).
Dr. Julie Beth Zimmerman holds joint appointments as a professor in the department of chemical and environmental engineering and school of the environment at Yale University. She also serves at the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Environment School as well as the Deputy Director of Yale's Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering. In 2020, Dr. Zimmerman was named as the Editor in Chief of Environmental Science and Technology. Her pioneering work established the fundamental framework for her field with her seminal publications on the "Twelve Principles of Green Engineering" in 2003. She demonstrates this framework and systems-thinking in her research including breakthroughs on the integrated biorefinery, designing safer chemicals and materials, creating novel materials for water purification, and assessing potential benefits and impacts of sustainable technologies. In addition to academic pursuits, Julie has assisted many of the Fortune 100 Companies in developing innovation strategies based on the principles of sustainability, green chemistry and green engineering through her consulting company Sustainability A to Z, LLC.
Chapter One Sustainable Design, Engineering, and Innovation 1
Chapter Two Environmental Measurements 45
Chapter Three Chemistry 79
Chapter Four Physical Processes 129
Chapter Five Biology 196
Chapter Six Environmental Risk 260
Chapter Seven Water: Quantity and Quality 308
Chapter Eight Water Treatment 389
Chapter Nine Wastewater and Stormwater: Collection, Treatment, Resource Recovery 457
Chapter Ten Solid-Waste Management 541
Chapter Eleven Air Quality Engineering 596
Periodic table of the elements 679
Answers to Selected Problems 680
Index 690
Index 690Chapter One Sustainable Design,
Engineering, and Innovation 1
Chapter Two Environmental
Measurements 45
Chapter Three Chemistry 79
Chapter Four Physical Processes 129
Chapter Five Biology 196
Chapter Six Environmental Risk 260
Chapter Seven Water: Quantity and
Quality 308
Chapter Eight Water Treatment 389
Chapter Nine Wastewater and
Stormwater: Collection, Treatment,
Resource Recovery 457
Chapter Ten Solid-Waste
Management 541
Chapter Eleven Air Quality
Engineering 596
Periodic table of the elements 679
Answers to Selected Problems 680
Index 690
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