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Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science
Author: Visit ‘s Gilbert M. Masters Page ID: 0134830660

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A moderately technical introduction to a wide range of environmental topics — including issues relating to water and air pollution, hazardous waste and risk assessment, waste treatment technologies, and global climate change.

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Balanced coverage of all the major categories of environmental pollution, with coverage of current topics such as climate change and ozone depletion, risk assessment, indoor air quality, source-reduction and recycling, and groundwater contamination. Slightly more quantitative than most books on the market.

FEATURES:

• Explores urgent environmental problems such as the depletion of the ozone layer, greenhouse effect, groundwater flow and contamination, and indoor air quality.
• Includes several important pedagogical aids.
• • Many examples of each quantitative concept.
  • Worked examples in each quantitative section.
  • Numerous problems at the end of each chapter.

  NEW TO THIS EDITION:

  • NEW— Includes a new chapter covering Solid Waste Management and Resource Recovery (Chapter 9). This chapter focuses on pollution prevention and product stewardship.
  • NEW—Risk Assessment has been greatly expanded and moved earlier in the book (chapter 4), reflecting the importance of this topic in Environmental Engineering and policy-making.
  • NEW— Provides a completely revised chapter on Global Atmospheric Change corresponding with the perspectives, terminology, and approaches that have become the standard according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Scientific Assessments. (Chapter 8)
  • New—Presentsexpanded coverage of water resources and Groundwater remediation, including challenges posed by subsurface contamination of nonaqueous-phase liquids.(Chapter 5)
  • NEW— Summarizes the National Resource Council’s assessment of the ability of conventional pump-and-treat remediation technologies to restore aquifer quality. (Chapter 5)
  • NEW—Covers the treatment of hazardous wastes and descriptions of the key pieces of environmental legislation that regulate hazardous substances. (Chapter 6)
  • NEW—Updates coverage of mobile source controls in the chapter on air pollution (Chapter 7) to include descriptions of reformulated gasoline and other alternative fuels as well as new material on two-stroke engines and hybrid electric vehicles.
  • NEW—Includes unique coverage of indoor air quality.
  • NEW—All topics have been given a more careful, thorough treatment in order to bring them up-to-date and increase the depth and breadth of the information presented.

  –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

  Hardcover: 512 pagesPublisher: Prentice Hall (February 1991)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0134830660ISBN-13: 978-0134830667 Product Dimensions: 1 x 7.2 x 9.8 inches Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds Best Sellers Rank: #444,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #159 in Books > Textbooks > Engineering > Environmental Engineering #827 in Books > Engineering & Transportation > Engineering > Civil & Environmental > Environmental #103078 in Books > Reference
  I used this textbook for a 300-level introduction to Environmental Engineering. The text is well written, with a strong and personable narrative, and explains the vast majority of the topics in a clear and accessible manner. Technical jargon is kept to a minimum, and this text could easily be read by a non-engineer. The text covers Water and Wastewater chemistry and treatment, water pollution and control, air pollution and control, solid waste treatment and disposal, and risk and risk management, as well as providing a solid background in the requisite chemistry and mathematics. College-level mathematics, including basic calculus, are included, although the textbook could be used in a non-calculus course without loosing any real continuity or coverage, by eliminating some derivations and a very few formulae. A basic college-level chemistry background is also extremely beneficial for Chapters 2 and 5 (Chemistry and Water topics).

  However, the provided exercises appear to have been written for an earlier edition and not updated, as the sequence and phraseology differs from that of the text, which led to confusion on a few occasions. Also, no solutions are provided in the back of the book and no student solutions manual is available, which makes study from the text difficult. The text also covers far more material than can reasonably be covered in a one-semester course, so coverage and continuity is in large part up to the instructor’s planning and topic selection.

  All in all, I found this book to provide a broad, clear, and succinct introduction to environmental engineering.
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