Biological Wastewater Treatment (Environmental Science & Pollution) (Environmental Science and Pollution Control Series, 19)

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Written by noted experts in the field sharing extensive academic and industrial experience, this thoroughly updated Second Edition covers commonly used and new suspended and attached growth reactors. The authors discuss combined carbon and ammonia oxidation, activated sludge, biological nutrient removal, aerobic digestion, anaerobic processes, lagoons, trickling filters, rotating biological contactors, fluidized beds, and biologically aerated filters. They integrate the principles of biochemical processes with applications in the real world-communicating approaches to the conception, design, operation, and optimization of biochemical unit operations in a comprehensive yet lucid manner.

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Environmental Engineer.......2004-01-17

A very well organized and written text-book. The theory and examples are properly selected for readers including graduate students, academics and practitioners. Certainly recommended...

A good book!.......2000-05-02

This is a very good technology review book in bioprocess for waste water treatment.

Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) Operation in Wastewater Treatment Plants (Wef Manual of Practice)

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Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) Operation in Wastewater Treatment Plants (Wef Manual of Practice)
Water Environment Federation
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BNR is a fast-growing method of removing biological pollutants (bacteria, etc.) from wastewater. Experts from both the Water Environment Federation and the American Society of Civil Engineers have collaborated on this definitive work which is intended to be a practical manual for plant managers and operators who needed current information on BNR.

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Industrial Water Pollution Control
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Theory-to-practice guide to controlling industrial water pollution. In a thoroughly updated new edition that reflects both more stringent regulations and the new technologies developed to meet them, Industrial Water Pollution Control, Third Edition, by W.Wesley Eckenfelder, Jr., introduces you to environmentally-acceptable and cost-effective. state-of- the art methodologies. After an overview of the source and characteristics of industrial wastewaters, you learn about pre- and primary treatment processes...coagulation, precipitation and metals removal...aeration and mass transfer...aerobic biological oxidation and other biological wastewater treatment processes...adsorption...ion exchange...chemical oxidation...sludge handling and disposal...and other processes, including deep-well disposal, membrane process, and more. Specific examples and case histories from a variety of industries, including pulp and paper, chemical and pharmaceutical, textile, food products, and metal finishing, help you understand the application of these technologies to real-world industrial wastewater treatment.

The Toilet Papers: Recycling Waste and Conserving Water

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Water shortage???
Fascinating History and Current Eco-Toilet Design
Stop wasting waste--here's the why and the how
Stop wasting waste--here's the why and the how

The Toilet Papers: Recycling Waste and Conserving Water
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A classic is back in print! One of the favorite books of the back-to- the-land movement, The Toilet Papers provides an informative and irreverent look at how people have deal with human wastes over the centuries, and at what safe designs are available today that reduce water consumption and avert the necessity for expensive treatment systems. Van der Ryn provides homeowner plans for several types of dry toilets, compost privies, and greywater systems, and also discusses the history and philosophy of turning organic wastes into a rich humus, linking us to the fertility of the soil and ensuring our ultimate well-being. Van der Ruyn is a former architect, and his designs for compost privies are downright elegant as well as environmentally sound.

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A classic is back in print! One of the favorite books of 1970s back-to-the-landers, The Toilet Papers is an informative, inspiring, and irreverent look at how people have dealt with their wastes through the centuries. In a historical survey, Van der Ryn provides the basic facts concerning human wastes, and describes safe designs for toilets that reduce water consumption and avert the necessity for expensive and unreliable treatment systems. The Toilet Papers provides do-it-yourself plans for a basic compost privy and a variety of graywater systems.

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Water shortage???.......2006-10-29

As the world ponders how we will all survive as unpolluted water becomes scarcer and scarcer, eventually one has to ask, 'why do we go to the bathroom in a bowl of fresh drinking water????'

Please don't tell me that it's 'because that's the way we've always done it'.

It's time for this book.

Hopefully, it will be read by people who have the brains and guts and good-natured cleverness to actually do something cool and constructive and environmentally sound about these things.

Fascinating History and Current Eco-Toilet Design.......2006-10-14

With a title like "Toilet Papers" and from a distinguished eco-architect like Sim Van der Ryn, I needed no intro or review to buy a copy of this little, but well researched historical over-view of effluent mitigation and current eco-friendly toilet design.

This book is filled with good line drawings and photographs to depict everything from the historical perspective to the current dry toilets and their construction.

The book starts out with:
"Throughout this book, you will find the word "waste" used to refer to those raw materials-feces and urine-your body passes on to make energy available to some other form of life. This is what you give back to the earth. The idea of waste, of something unusable, reveals an incomplete understanding of how things work.
Nature admits no waste. Nothing is left over; everything is joined in the spiral of life. Perhaps other cultures know this better than we, for they have no concept of, no word for, waste". And under that thought provoking consideration of resource cycles, there is:

"A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost"- Lao Tze, 500 B.C.

The intro is by Wendell Berry, farmer, novelist, poet. He posits that "modern" effluent mitigation is as insane as drinking right from an un-flushed toilet: "It is not inconceivable that some psychiatrist would ask me knowingly why I wanted to mess up my drinking water in the first place". Indeed.

After the fascinating human waste history lessons, we are given a short crash-course on the biology of waste, then it's on to the fruit of the book: dry composting toilet designs and their efficacy. This is in good detail and makes for a complete handbook on waterless toilet design.

Finally, there is the Epilogue and I would be amiss in my review if I did not reveal a little taste of it: [Any technology divorced from the whole of nature tends to produce a condition that poet Robert Graves calls "mechanarchy": the perfection of technological means to produce a chaotic sterile environment. The current technology of "waste disposal" (the term reveals the syndrome) is still fighting a war against nature, built on fragments of 19th century science not yet integrated into an understanding of life processes as a unified, but cyclical, whole."] True enough!
Sim Van der Ryn has produced a gem of proper waste recycling in this informing little book. His website is well worth a visit also.

An informative companion to "Toilet Papers" is "The Humanure Handbook" by Joseph Jenkins- a how-to on safely composting one's excrement back into a nutrient rich amendment for the vegetable garden instead of flushing it away as waste.

Stop wasting waste--here's the why and the how.......2000-05-24

Most farmers and gardeners fertilize soil using manure from the many animals except humans. Because of our diet, humanure is unsurpassed in nutrients. Asians have used it for thousands of years. Generations of families using flush toilets have resulted in psychological negativity--the yuck factor. So humanure is mostly wasted and goes into sewage treatment plants or septic systems, causing much unnecessary expense and pollution of groundwater. The most commonsense treatment of humanure is to collect it, compost it, and then use it for fertilizer for ornamentals and those plants that fruit above-ground: fruit trees, tomatoes, peppers, beans and the like. Humanure composted for a year is indistinguishable from rich soil. Van der Ryn provides here the why and the how.

Stop wasting waste--here's the why and the how.......2000-05-24

Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems (Civil and Environmental Engineering)

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Although initially based purely on environmental principles of reuse and recycling, natural waste treatment systems proved to have economic advantages over mechanical systems in many cases, being less expensive to build and operate as well as requiring less energy. Thus, natural waste treatment methods reemerged even as advanced wastewater treatment technologies exploded in growth. Reflecting this burgeoning popularity, Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems is the first book to integrate all the major types of natural treatment systems into a single source. Beginning with an overview of the types of natural treatment systems, the book outlines the planning, feasibility assessment, and site selection processes unique to natural processes as well as the basic process responses and interactions governing natural systems. The authors then examine the systems in detail, discussing wastewater pond systems, free water surface constructed wetlands, subsurface and vertical flow constructed wetlands, land treatment, sludge management, and onsite wastewater systems. They illustrate the practical aspects through 30 examples; include 178 data tables for comparing costs, performance, and constraints; and describe new approaches to partially mixed ponds, including dual-powered aeration ponds. Written by eminent experts in natural waste treatment, Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems is an invaluable tool for selecting, planning, and implementing ecologically and economically sound wastewater treatment systems.

Biological Process Design for Wastewater Treatment (Prentice-Hall series in environmental sciences)

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Advanced Biological Treatment Processes for Industrial Wastewaters: Principles and Applications

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Advanced Biological Treatment Processes for Industrial Wastewaters provides unique information relative to both the principles and applications of biological wastewater treatment systems for industrial effluents. Case studies document the application of biological wastewater treatment systems in different industrial sectors such as chemical, petrochemical, food-processing, mining, textile and fermentation. With more than 70 tables, 100 figures, 200 equations and several illustrations, the book provides a broad and deep understanding of the main aspects to consider during the design and operation of industrial wastewater treatment plants. Students, researchers and practitioners dealing with the design and application of biological systems for industrial wastewater treatment will find this book invaluable.

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Wastewater Treatment: Biological and Chemical Processes (Environmental Science and Engineering / Environmental Engineering)

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Wastewater Treatment: Biological and Chemical Processes (Environmental Science and Engineering / Environmental Engineering)
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This book gives a most detailed presentation of the theories behind modern wastewater treatment processes. It presents an up-to-date description of wastewater characteristics and the theories of biological processes and their modelling. The quantitative information density is unique due to the numerous tables, figures and examples.The book is primarily intended for graduate and PhD students, but owing to the abundant quantitative information it is also valuable for consulting engineers and other professionals who deal with wastewater treatment. The book has an extensive Table of Contents and list of symbols, which makes it useful as a handbook.

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I bought this book for an engineer friend who lives abroad. I have not personally read it, but he is very satisfied with the contents of the book. Thank you for your prompt attention in getting this book to me. Mrs. Ragoonanan

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