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Introduction to water resource recovery facility design / edited by Thomas E. Jenkins, Daniel A. Nolasco.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sewage disposal plants--Design and construction.
- Sewage disposal plants.
- Sewage--Purification.
- Sewage.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxi, 570 pages) : illustrations, figs., tables.
- Edition:
- 2nd edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education LLC., c2015.
- Summary:
- Fully updated for the latest regulations and standards, this Water Environment Federation book provides students and practicing engineers with the information on both the design of water treatment facilities and the processes required to meet current and future regulations.
- Contents:
- A. About wef
- B. About the editors
- C. Acknowledgments
- List of figures
- List of tables
- 1. Fundamentals
- Introduction
- Water quality
- Options for municipal wastewater treatment
- Materials balance
- Engineering economics and financing aspects
- Value engineering
- Conclusions
- References
- Symbols used in this chapter
- 2. The design process
- Project participants
- Project delivery models
- Project sequence and design standards
- Sources, quantities, and characteristics of municipal wastewater
- Occupational safety
- Site selection
- Process options and selection
- Facility layout
- 3. Hydraulics
- Hydraulic considerations
- Fundamentals of hydraulic engineering
- Unit process hydraulics and other hydraulic elements
- Pumps and pumping
- Common problems encountered in facility hydraulics
- Design examples
- 4. Preliminary treatment
- Screening
- Grit removal
- Septage
- Equalization
- 5. Primary treatment
- Primary settling
- Enhanced settling
- Sludge collection and removal
- Scum collection and disposal
- Co-thickening with waste activated sludge
- Fine screens
- Downstream process considerations
- Design example
- 6. Suspended-growth biological treatment
- The activated sludge process
- Anaerobic treatment of wastewater
- Process configuration alternatives
- Oxygen transfer
- Secondary settling
- Membrane bioreactors
- 7. Attached-growth biological treatment
- Trickling filters
- Rotating biological contactors
- Combined biological treatment
- Developing fixed-film processes
- Secondary clarification
- 8. Biological nutrient removal
- Phosphorus-removal processes
- Nitrogen-removal processes
- Simultaneous phosphorus- and nitrogen-removal processes
- Design considerations
- 9. Natural treatment systems
- Soil absorption systems
- Pond systems
- Land treatment systems
- Floating aquatic systems
- Constructed wetlands
- 10. Physical and chemical processes
- Process selection considerations
- Secondary effluent filtration
- Activated carbon adsorption
- Chemical treatment
- Chemical feed systems
- Membrane processes
- References.
- 11. Ancillary processes
- Disinfection
- Disinfection kinetics
- Chlorine disinfection
- Ultraviolet disinfection
- Other disinfection processes
- Effluent reoxygenation
- Channel aeration
- Odor control
- 12. Production and transport of wastewater solids
- Sludge quantities
- Sludge characteristics
- Liquid residuals and biosolids storage
- Liquid residuals transport
- Dewatered sludge storage
- Dewatered sludge transport
- Dried sludge transport
- 13. Conditioning of solids
- Chemical conditioning
- Thermal conditioning
- Freeze?thaw conditioning
- 14. Stabilization
- Anaerobic digestion
- Aerobic digestion
- Autothermal thermophilic aerobic digestion
- Composting
- Alkaline stabilization
- Sludge combustion
- 15. Thickening, dewatering, and drying solids
- Gravity thickening
- Dissolved-air flotation thickening
- Gravity belt thickening
- Other methods of thickening
- Centrifugal thickening and dewatering
- Belt press dewatering
- Filter press dewatering
- Drying bed dewatering
- Other dewatering methods
- Thermal drying
- 16. Beneficial use and ultimate disposal
- 40 cfr part 503 regulations
- Land application
- Landfills
- Dedicated land disposal
- Ash use and disposal
- Distribution and marketing
- Heat drying
- Lime stabilization
- Symbols used in this chapter.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on cover image and table of contents, viewed on Apr. 22, 2015.
- ISBN:
- 9780071850445
- 0071850449
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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