Water and Wastewater Treatment : A Guide for the Nonengineering Professional, 2nd Edition

Lauded for its engaging, highly readable style, the best-selling first edition became the premier guide for nonengineers involved in water and wastewater treatment operations. Water and Wastewater Treatment : A Guide for the Nonengineering Professional, Second Edition continues to provide a simple, nonmathematical account of the unit processes used to treat both drinking water and wastewater.

Completely revised and expanded, this second edition adds new material on technological advances, regulatory requirements, and other current issues facing the water and wastewater industries. Using step-by-step, jargon-free language, the authors present all the basic unit processes involved in drinking water and wastewater treatment. They describe each unit process, the function of the process in water or wastewater treatment, and the basic equipment used in each process. They also explain how the processes fit together within a drinking water or wastewater treatment system and discuss the fundamental concepts that constitute water and wastewater treatment processes as a whole.

Avoiding mathematics, chemistry, and biology, the book includes numerous illustrations for easy comprehension of concepts and processes. It also contains chapter summaries and an extensive glossary of terms and abbreviations for quick reference.

Preface

Part I : Introduction
Chapter 1 : Current Issues in Water and Wastewater Treatment Operations

Part II : Basics of Water Treatment
Chapter 2 : Water Regulations, Parameters, and Characteristics
Chapter 3 : Water Purification : System Overview
Chapter 4 : Sources, Intake, and Screening
Chapter 5 : Coagulation and Flocculation
Chapter 6 : Sedimentation
Chapter 7 : Filtration
Chapter 8 : Disinfection
Chapter 9 : Distribution

Part III : Basics of Wastewater Treatment
Chapter 10 : Wastewater Regulations, Parameters, and Characteristics
Chapter 11 : Wastewater Sources and Types
Chapter 12 : Wastewater Treatment : Basic Overview
Chapter 13 : Collection Systems
Chapter 14 : Preliminary Treatment
Chapter 15 : Primary Sedimentation
Chapter 16 : Biological Treatment
Chapter 17 : Secondary Sedimentation
Chapter 18 : Advanced Treatment
Chapter 19 : Wastewater Disinfection
Chapter 20 : Discharge Effluent

Part IV : Basics of Water and Wastewater Solids Treatment and Management
Chapter 21 : Water Solids Management : System Overview
Chapter 22 : Water Solids Treatment and Disposal
Chapter 23 : Wastewater Biosolids Management : System Overview
Chapter 24 : Wastewater Biosolids Treatment
Chapter 25 : Wastewater Biosolids Disposal

Glossary
Index