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Summary
Summary
Wastewater Characteristics, Treatment and Disposal is the first volume in the series Biological Wastewater Treatment, presenting an integrated view of water quality and wastewater treatment. The book covers the following topics: wastewater characteristics (flow and major constituents) impact of wastewater discharges to rivers and lakes overview of wastewater treatment systems complementary items in planning studies.
This book, with its clear and practical approach, lays the foundations for the topics that are analysed in more detail in the other books of the series. About the series: The series is based on a highly acclaimed set of best selling textbooks. This international version is comprised by six textbooks giving a state-of-the-art presentation of the science and technology of biological wastewater treatment.
Other titles in the series are: Volume 2: Basic Principles of Wastewater Treatment; Volume 3: Waste Stabilisation Ponds; Volume 4: Anaerobic Reactors; Volume 5: Activated Sludge and Aerobic Biofilm Reactors; Volume 6: Sludge Treatment and Disposal
Reviews 1
Choice Review
In this first volume of a six-volume series, the writing by Von Sperling (Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais, Brazil) is clear and well organized in standard engineering style. The use of tables and figures is good. The level of difficulty is appropriate to an undergraduate introductory course. Most of the book is devoted to wastewater characteristics and impacts on the receiving water body (lake or stream). There is a good section on water quality standards, although the total maximum daily load (TMDL) process, which is important in the US, is not mentioned. The sections on treatment process form a good introduction to the later volumes of this series by focusing on process selection and performance, and not on design. Because it does not include design, this would be appropriate for engineering students only if combined with one or more of the later books in the series (Wastewater Characteristics, Treatment and Disposal, Activated Sludge and Aerobic Biofilm Reactors, Waste Stabilisation Ponds, and Sludge Treatment and Disposal, all from 2007). Overall, the organization and coverage is similar to many introductory wastewater treatment books, with some advantage in size and cost obtained by its concise yet not too elementary approach, and by its lack of end-of-chapter problems and an index. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. D. A. Vaccari Stevens Institute of Technology
