Reaction Mechanisms in Environmental Engineering: Analysis and Prediction describes the principles that govern chemical reactivity and demonstrates how these principles are used to yield more accurate predictions. The book will help users increase accuracy in analyzing and predicting the speed of pollutant conversion in engineered systems, such as water and wastewater treatment plants, or in natural systems, such as lakes and aquifers receiving industrial pollution. Using examples from air, water and soil, the book begins with a clear exposition of the properties of environmental and inorganic organic chemicals that is followed by partitioning and sorption processes and sorption and transformation processes. Kinetic principles are used to calculate or estimate the pollutants' half-lives, while physical-chemical properties of organic pollutants are used to estimate transformation mechanisms and rates. The book emphasizes how to develop an understanding of how physico-chemical and structural properties relate to transformations of organic pollutants. - Offers a one-stop source for analyzing and predicting the speed of organic and inorganic reaction mechanisms for air, water and soil - Provides the tools and methods for increased accuracy in analyzing and predicting the speed of pollutant conversion in engineered systems - Uses kinetic principles and the physical-chemical properties of organic pollutants to estimate transformation mechanisms and rates

Environmental forensics is emerging and evolving into a recognized scientific discipline with numerous applications, especially regarding chlorinated solvents. This unique book provides the reader with a concise compilation of information regarding the use of environmental forensic techniques for age dating and identification of the source of a chlorinated solvent release. Concentrating on the five commonly encountered chlorinated solvents (perchloroethylene, trichloroethylene, methyl chloroform, carbon tetrachloride and CFC-113), forensic opportunities applicable to each are presented including the use of stabilizers, manufacturing impurities, surrogate chemicals and physical measurements and degradation products as diagnostic indicators. Detailed historical chronology of the applications of the solvents and specific chapters devoted to dry cleaning and vapor degreasing equipment are included as are generic forensic approaches. Forming a basis for further ideas in the evolution of environmental forensic techniques, Chlorinated Solvents will be an indispensable reference tool for researchers, regulators and analysts in the field.

Remediation engineering has evolved and advanced from the stage of being a sub-discipline of environmental engineering into its own engineering discipline supporting the growth of a global industry. This fully-updated second edition will capture the fundamental advancements that have taken place during the last two decades, within the sub-disciplines that form the foundation of the remediation engineering platform. The book will cover the entire spectrum of current technologies that are being employed in this industry, and will also touch on future trends and how practitioners should anticipate and adapt to those needs.

Because of expanding interest for consumable and water system water, water providers need to utilize elective assets. They either need to recover wastewater or manage sullied surface water. This book unites the encounters of different specialists in getting ready of creative materials that are specific for arsenic and chromium expulsion, and developing some imaginative procedures to separate these components from water. The book ought to be of high enthusiasm to designers and chiefs in charge of generation and conveyance of safe water. They examined the logical ideas and commonsense means for the arrangement of the perplexing social, financial and biological issues related with water cleansing, utilization, preservation, and security. The book is the principal ever logical work routed to two most unsafe components showing up in water and gives a thorough survey of materials and strategies valuable for making the water safe. The book talks about in detail the different creation systems for sorbents and layers that are presently financially accessible or show up in the advancement arrange and will be popularized in the following decades.