MWH's Water Treatment - Principles and Design 3e

MWH is a global consulting firm with more than 7,000 professionals and 180 offices in thirty-five countries, that provides services to a full range of water-related projects and programs ranging from water supply, treatment and storage, dams, water management for the natural resources industry, and coastal restoration to renewable power and environmental service. MWH employees wrote the first edition of this book. JOHN C. CRITTENDEN is Director of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems as well as Hightower Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. R. RHODES TRUSSELL is the founder of Trussell Technologies and former senior vice president at MWH. He is Chair of the Water Science and Technology Board for the National Academies and, in 2010, was awarded the prestigious A. P. Black Research Award from the American Water Works Association. DAVID W. HAND is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Michigan Technological University. He has authored or coauthored over 130 technical publications including six textbooks, two patents, and eight copyrighted software programs. KERRY J. HOWE is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of New Mexico and former principal engineer at MWH. His teaching and research focuses on water quality, membrane processes, desalination, and advanced water treatment technologies. GEORGE TCHOBANOGLOUS is Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis. He is the author or coauthor of more than 300 technical papers and a number of textbooks, including Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse and Water Reuse.

Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Foreword xvii 1 Introduction 1 2 Physical and Chemical Quality of Water 17 3 Microbiological Quality of Water 73 4 Water Quality Management Strategies 165 5 Principles of Chemical Reactions 225 6 Principles of Reactor Analysis and Mixing 287 7 Principles of Mass Transfer 391 8 Chemical Oxidation and Reduction 457 9 Coagulation and Flocculation 541 10 Gravity Separation 641 11 Granular Filtration 727 12 Membrane Filtration 819 13 Disinfection 903 14 Air Stripping and Aeration 1033 15 Adsorption 1117 16 Ion Exchange 1263 17 Reverse Osmosis 1335 18 Advanced Oxidation 1415 19 Disinfection/Oxidation By-products 1485 20 Removal of Selected Constituents 1529 21 Residuals Management 1625 22 Internal Corrosion of Water Conduits 1699 23 Synthesis of Treatment Trains: Case Studies from Bench to Full Scale 1805 Appendix A Conversion Factors 1851 Appendix B Physical Properties of Selected Gases and Composition of Air 1857 Appendix C Physical Properties of Water 1861 Appendix D Standard Atomic Weights 2001 1863 Appendix E Electronic Resources Available on the John Wiley & Sons Website for This Textbook 1867 Index 1869