Basic Water Treatment

Basic Water Treatment - third Edition 2002 Thomas Telford Publishing

C. Binnie - M. Kimber - G. Smethurst

A useful handbook on water treatment for engineers and university students.

Chapters
1. Introduction
2. Quality of water
3. Overview of water treatment
4. Preliminary and flocculation
5. Coagulation and flocculation
6. Coagulants and coagulant aids
7. Theory and principles of clarification
8. Types of clarifiers
9. Filtration
10. Membrane processes
11. Other processes
12. Disinfection
13. Waterworks wastes and sludges
14. Water demand and use

Review:

This book is aimed at university students, at practising water treatment engineers, for whom it will be a useful reference book, and a mechanical engineers and chemists who need to put their specialized knowledge into a boarder context. It provides essential background and is a useful first choice reference book for many aspects of water quality and treatment.

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