Integrated Design and Operation of Water Treatment Facilities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780471350934)

Completely up-to-date
coverage of water treatment
facility design and operation

This Second Edition of Susumu Kawamura's landmark volume offerscomprehensive coverage of water treatment facility design, from thebasic principles to the latest innovations. It covers a broadspectrum of water treatment process designs in detail and offersclear guidelines on how to choose the unit, process, and equipmentthat will maximize overall efficiency and minimize maintenancecosts. This book also explores many important operational issuesthat affect today's plant operators and facility designers.

This new edition introduces several new subjects, including valueengineering, watershed management, dissolved air flotation process, filtered reservoir (clearwell) design, and electrical systemdesign. It provides expanded and updated coverage of objectives forfinished water quality, instrumentation and control, disinfectionprocess, ozonation, disinfection by-product control, the GACprocess, and the membrane filtration process. Other importantfeatures of this Second Edition include:
* Practical guidance on the design of every water treatment plantcomponent
* New information on plant layout, cost estimation, sedimentationissues, and more
* English and SI units throughout
* Help in designing for compliance with water treatment-relatedgovernment regulations

Supplemented with hundreds of illustrations, charts, and tables, Integrated Design and Operation of Water Treatment Facilities, Second Edition is an indispensable, hands-on resource for civilengineers and managers, whether working on new facilities orredesigning and rebuilding existing facilities.

Author: Susumu Kawamura
ISBN-10: 0471350931
ISBN-13: 9780471350934
Publisher: Wiley
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2000
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.50w x 1.49d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 12/01/2000 pg. 144