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Water treatment handbook - 1991 sixth
edition - Degremont
A very complete and elaborate publication in two
volumes (see chapters
underneath).
Volume 1
1. Water, a fundamental element.
2. Treatment, what type of water and why?
3. Basic phsyysical-chemical processes in water treatment.
4. Basic biological processes in water treatment.
5. Methods and means of analysis..
6. Aquatic organisms.
7. The effects of water on materials.
8. Formulae digest.
Volume 2
9. Preliminary treatment systems.
10. Flocculation - settling - flotation.
11. Aerobic biological processes.
12. Methane fermentation.
13. Filters.
14. Modern ion exchange methods.
15. Separation by membranes.
16. Deaeration, stripping, evaporation.
17. Oxidation - Disinfection.
18. Thickening and stabilization of sludge.
19. Sludge treatment.
20. Storage and feeding of reagents.
21. Measurement, control, automation and supervision.
22. Treatment of drinking water.
23. Treatment of swimming pool water.
24 Municipal wastewater treatment.
25. Treatment and conditioning of industrial water.
26. Industiral processes and the treatment fo wastewater.
Wastewater engineering - treatment -
disposal - reuse - McGraw-Hill int. - 1991
Tchobanoglous/Burton
Again an extensive volume (bible) focussing more on waste water and water
recycling.
Chapter 1; Wastewater Engineering: An overview.
Chapter 2; Wastewater flowrates.
Chapter 3; Wastewater Characteristics.
Chapter 4; Wastewater Treatment Objectives, Methods, and implemantation
considerations.
Chapter 5; Introduction to waste water treatment plant design.
Chapter 6; Physical unit operations.
Chapter 7; Chemical Unit Processes.
Chapter 8; Biological unit Processes.
Chapter 9; Design of facilities for physical and chemical treatment of
wastewater.
Chapter 10; Design of Facilities for the Biolgocical treatment of waste
water.
Chapter 11; Advanced wastewater treatment.
Chapter 12; Design of facilities for the treatment and disposal of sludge.
Chapter 13; Natural treatment systems.
Chapter 14; Smaller wastewater treatment systems.
Chapter 15; Management of wastewater from combined sewers.
Chapter 16; Waste water reclamation and reuse.
Chapter 17; Effluent disposal.
Review; Good quality - including examples and solutions, discussion
topics and problems (more than 1300 pages).
Wastewater Engineering - Treatment and reuse -
2003 (4th edition)
Tchobanoglous/Burton
Another book focussing on wastewater treatment, of an extensive volume (bible), containing detailed descriptions and explanations, and very clear figures and calculation examples.
Chapter 1: wastewater engineering: an overview
Chapter 2: constituents in wastewater
Chapter 3: analyses and selection of wastewater flow rates and constituent loadings
Chapter 4: introduction to process analyses and selection
Chapter 5: physical unit operations
Chapter 6: chemical unit processes
Chapter 7: fundamentals of biological treatment
Chapter 8: suspended growth biological treatment processes
Chapter 9: attached growth and combined biological treatment processes
Chapter 10: anaerobic suspended and attached growth biological treatment processes
Chapter 11: advanced wastewater treatment
Chapter 12: disinfection processes
Chapter 13: water reuse
Chapter 14: treatment, reuse, and disposal of solids and bio solids
Chapter 15: issues related to treatment-plant performance
The
book gives an excellent description of any technological changes in
wastewater treatment over the past decades. It is very suitable for
wastewater treatment engineers of any level.
This
new version focuses strongly on various technologies for the advanced
treatment of different kinds of wastewater.
Filters and Filtration Handbook - 1992
Christopher Dickinson
A practical guide for engineers, managers and specifiers, incorporating in volume essential and useful information on the physical water purification techniques filtration and separation.
Chapter 1: basic principles
Chapter 2: filter media
Chapter 3: types of filter
Chapter 4: types of separators
Chapter 5: liquids and solids
Chapter 6: air filtration
Chapter 7: oils
Chapter 8: filter selection
Review:
A clear-cut description of filters and filtration techniques; the water purification methods for water that contains suspended solids, including new materials, product developments and applications, which help provide realistic and practical solutions to individual filtration and separation problems, together with a valuable source of equipment purchase and supply.
Principles of Industrial Water Treatment - 1985
Drew
An overview of industrial water treatment methods and techniques, by the Drew Chemical Corporation.
Chapter 1: introduction to water and its impurities
Chapter 2: external water treatment processes
Chapter 3: cooling water corrosion control
Chapter 4: cooling water deposit control
Chapter 5: microbiological control
Chapter 6: industrial cooling water systems cleaning methods
Chapter 7: open evaporative systems
Chapter 8: once- through systems
Chapter 9: closed systems
Chapter 10: steam generation
Chapter 11: corrosion inhibition in steam generating systems
Chapter 12: deposits in steam generating systems
Chapter 13: carry-over of boiler water
Chapter 14: high pressure boiler systems
Chapter 15: feed and control of internal treatment chemicals
Review:
Provides the reader with state-of-the-art information on water treatment topics. The authors managed to present the principles upon which various industrial water treatment practises are based, in an understandable fashion. With a broad coverage this book addresses a wide spectrum of water treatment industrial practises.
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