Clair Sawyer - Chemistry for Environmental Engineering

Chemistry for Environmental Engineering - 1994 (fourth edition)

Clair Sawyer, Perry McCarty and Gene Parklin

A book for students of environmental science, containing the basic knowledge of environmental chemistry and biology, divided up in two parts.

Part 1: Fundamentals of chemistry for environmental engineering
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Basic concepts from general chemistry
Chapter 3: Basic concepts from physical chemistry
Chapter 4: Basic concepts from equilibrium chemistry
Chapter 5: Basic concepts from organic chemistry
Chapter 6: Basic concepts from biochemistry
Chapter 7: Basic concepts from colloid chemistry
Chapter 8: Basic concepts from nuclear chemistry

Part 2: Water and wastewater analyses
Chapter 9: Introduction
Chapter 10: Basic concepts from quantitative chemistry
Chapter 11: Instrumental methods of analyses
Chapter 12: Turbidity
Chapter 13: Color
Chapter 14: Standard solutions
Chapter 15: pH
Chapter 16: Acidity
Chapter 17: Alkalinity
Chapter 18: Hardness
Chapter 19: Residual chlorine and chlorine demand
Chapter 20: Chlorides
Chapter 21: Dissolved oxygen
Chapter 22: Biochemical oxygen demand
Chapter 23: Chemical oxygen demand
Chapter 24: Nitrogen
Chapter 25: Solids
Chapter 26: Iron and manganese
Chapter 27: Fluoride
Chapter 28: Sulfate
Chapter 29: Phosphorus and phosphate
Chapter 30: Oil and grease
Chapter 31: Volatile acids
Chapter 32: Gas analyses
Chapter 33: Trace contaminants

Review:

This book serves as a textbook for a first course in chemistry for environmental engineering students with one year of college-level chemistry. The book exposes students that have deficiencies in chemistry and biology to general concepts of importance, in a clear and challenging way.

Clair Sawyer has, along with other chemists, brought into focus those aspects of chemistry that are particularly valuable to environmental engineering practise. It lays a groundwork of understanding in the area of specialized quantitative water and wastewater analyses, which will serve students as a basis in all the common phases of environmental engineering practise and research.