Municipal Water and Waste Water Treatment

The book provides an overview of the engineering approaches towards ensuring water quality, with an emphasis on fundamental principles. It presents water quality objectives and the chemical, physical, and biological processes necessary for designing and managing drinking water and waste water treatment plants. Theory and conceptual designs of systems for treating municipal waste water and drinking water are discussed. The basic principles of common treatment processes are also discussed.

Key Features:

• Engineering aspects of municipal water and waste water treatment are explained in a simple and lucid manner.
• For easy comprehension, the techniques are pictorially represented.
• The data is represented in the form of self-explanatory tables.
• Solved examples are given in each chapter.
• Revision questions along with solutions are presented at the end of each chapter.

Contents:   

• Water as a resource: some related issues
• Municipal wastewater generation, conveyance and disposal
• Water treatment processes
• Wastewater treatment: physical and chemical processes
• Wastewater treatment: biological methods
• Wastewater reuse
• Sludge and Septage: Treatment and Disposal
• Wastewater disposal into natural water bodies
• Wastewater disposal on land land application
• Selection, planning and implementation guidelines for water and wastewater treatment systems
• Model answers to Learning activities
• Distance learning in Environmental Engineering