Environmental Engineers' Handbook 2nd Ed.

Description:
Protecting the global environment is a single-minded goal for all of us. Environmental engineers take this goal to task, meeting the needs of society with technical innovations. Revised, expanded, and fully updated to meet the needs of today's engineer working in industry or the public sector, the 'Environmental Engineers' Handbook, Second Edition' is a single source of current information. It covers in depth the interrelated factors and principles that affect our environment and how we have dealt with them in the past, are dealing with them today, and how we will deal with them in the future. This stellar reference addresses the ongoing global transition in cleaning up the remains of abandoned technology, the prevention of pollution created by existing technology, and the design of future zero emission technology.

Table of Contents:
Environmental Laws and Regulations. Environmental Impact Assessment. Pollution Prevention in Chemical Manufacturing. Standards. Air Pollution. Noise Pollution. Wastewater Treatment. Removing Specific Water Contaminants. Groundwater and Surface Water Pollution. Solid Waste. Hazardous Waste.