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Municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal is an ever-increasing problem
in many parts of the world, especially in developing countries. To
date, landfilling is still the preferred option for the disposal
and management of MSW due to its low-cost operation. While this
solution is advantageous from a cost perspective, it introduces a
high level of potential pollutants which can be detrimental to the
local environment. Control and Treatment of Landfill Leachate for
Sanitary Waste Disposal presents research-based insights and
solutions for the proper management and treatment of landfill
leachate. Highlighting relevant topics on emerging technologies and
treatment innovations for minimizing the environmental hazards of
waste disposal, this innovative publication contributes to filling
in many of the gaps that exist in the current literature available
on leachate treatment. Waste authorities, solid waste management
companies, landfill operators, legislators, environmentalists,
graduate students, and researchers will find this publication
beneficial to their professional and academic interests in the area
of waste treatment and management.
Water professionals are responsible for shaping and sometimes
changing consumers' perceptions about the value of water. Consumers
can mistakenly undervalue water's worth by assuming it should be
provided at no cost to the public. This book by Melanie Goetz
outlines how water professionals can encourage customers to
appreciate water as the precious commodity it is by driving the
message that it needs to be paid for just like other valuable
services. The tactics outlined can be especially useful during
situations such as advocating for proposed rate hikes, or when
conservation measures are needed. Goetz goes into depth about the
consumer behavior and psychology that drives people's understanding
of worth. Communicating Water's Value also includes "success
stories" from various utilities and corporations who implemented
strategies that effectively shaped and changed the public's
perception of the value of water.
This publication provides an introduction to the planning and
design of activated sludge wastewater treatment plants.
Good financial management is critical for the successful operation
of both private and governmental water utilities. This book
provides a complete information resource on sound financial and
accounting practices and procedures for water utilities.Intended
for financial staff, managers, and executives of water utilities,
the book covers these topics and more:Water utility
managementFunctions of financial managementStandardized methods of
accounting and reportingDeveloping projectionsBudgetingRates and
revenuesO & M expensesAssets and liabilitiesTaxesCapital
improvement planning and financingInternal controls and auditsThe
included electronic Appendices, which will be delivered to your My
Downloads, provide valuable support materials, including the
complete NARUC UniformSystem of Accounts for Class A Water
Utilities, and sample annual reports, interim financial reports,
10-K filing, and policy statements.
Waste-to-Energy is one of the key technologies for sustainable
waste management. The book by Laura Mastellone offers a
comprehensive overview of the various processes for thermal waste
treatment such as incineration, pyrolysis, and gasification. It is
instrumental for understanding objectives, functioning, residues,
and environmental impacts of thermal processes. This is worthwhile
reading for any expert in the field of resources and waste
management.
This book examines the very current issue of wood waste treatment
to a solid biofuel for energy recovery. The book is dedicated to
research in the densification processes of wood waste and its
mathematical description for uniaxial densification into compact
biofuels - briquettes. This monograph, derived from an experimental
research of densification process in laboratory conditions and also
in real technologies in practice, provides a thorough understanding
of the influencing parameters impact during densification of wood
waste into solid biofuel. The book shows the experimental strategy
to determine the effects of individual parameters and specifies
their impact on the resulting density of the briquettes. The
publication also defines the level of importance of the results in
terms of optimization of the densification machine's pressing
chamber. Using a designed mathematical model, which was a result of
experimental research and which can serve to predict the density of
briquettes for some predefined densification conditions and can aid
in the design of densification machines, the author has made this
topic accessible beyond his discipline, biofuels producers and the
academic community.
Safe drinking water is essential to human life. Ensuring Safe
Drinking Water: Learning From Frontline Experience with
Contamination provides those who carry responsibility for ensuring
safe drinking water an opportunity to learn from the experiences of
others. This book presents 21 case studies-10 waterborne disease
outbreaks, 7 cases of severe chemical contamination, and 4 close
calls-written largely from the perspective of frontline personnel
who experienced the events as they unfolded. For each case,
distinguished authors Steve E. Hrudey and Elizabeth J. Hrudey have
provided background, operational details, illustrations, questions
to ponder, lessons learned, and more, to allow professionals to
imagine themselves in these circumstances and see how these
experiences can help them in ensuring the safety of their own
systems. Ensuring Safe Drinking Water is essential reading for
operators, supervisors, foremen, managers, administrative officers,
commissioners, councilors, local officials, utility board members,
regulators, and public health agency personnel. Accessible and
urgent, the book is intended to spark discussion and exchange. Its
true-life stories of how things can go wrong lay out what's at
stake in the crucial work that water professionals perform every
day.
Resolving customer water quality complaints is one of the most
important aspects of maintaining a successful water distribution
system. Complaint investigation involves not just professional
water quality proficiency, but also customer relationship skills.
The Water Quality Complaint Investigators Guide covers 90% of the
most common complaints from consumers. This revised edition focuses
on operational practices and includes two entirely new chapters
that address regulatory issues and operational practices to reduce
water quality complaints. You will learn: How to avoid complaints
How to deal with existing problems Most common complaints and their
most common fixes Concrete information on how to deal with
customers How to get to the root of the problem before having to go
out to the site, which saves time and money The information in this
book is of value to those learning how to investigate water quality
complaints to veterans who may be facing new complaint situations,
as well as the people who supervise them, laboratory technicians
and customer service representatives."
Lavishly illustrated with 98 full-color figures, this book
describes waterborne microorganisms-bacteria, viruses, protists,
and others-of concern to water operators, as well as techniques for
isolation and detection, chemistry, and disinfection. This third
edition includes new sections on advancing microbiology
laboratories and effective data communication, color drawings to
accompany genera descriptions, 30 additional photographs, and a new
appendix on decontamination of new mains.
CONTENTS Chapter - 1. Introduction; Chapter - 2. Characteristics of
Cotton Textile Processing Effluents; Sizing; Desizing; Scouring;
Bleaching; Mercerizing; Dyeing; Printing; Finishing; Combined
Effluent; Chapter - 3. Treatment of Cotton Textile Processing
Effluents Chapter - 4. Charactristics and Treatment of Synthetic
Textile Processing Effluents; Process and Characteristics of
Effluents; Treatment; Chapter - 5. Knit Fabric Finishing; Chapter -
6. Characteristics and Treatment of Woollen Textile Processing
Effluents; Chapter - 7. Recent Trends in Textile Waste Water
Management; Chapter - 8. Reduction of Pollution Load; Waste
segregation; Recovery & Reuse of Sizes and Other Chemicals;
Substitution of Low-Pollution Load Chemicals; Judicious use of
chemicals; Process changes; Economy in Water use; Chapter - 9.
Recovery and Reuse of Sizes, Dyes and Other Chemicals; Recovery of
PVA and other Sizing agents; Caustic soda Recovery; Recovery of
Dyes; Reuse of Ozonated Dyebath; Recovery of Other Valuable
materials; Recovery of Heat; Chapter - 10. Recycling and Reuse of
Waste Water; Chapter - 11. Conservation and Reuse of Water; Part -
II.TREATMENT METHODS; Chapter - 12 Treatment Methods - An
Introduction; Chapter - 13. Preliminary and Primary Treatments;
Screening; Equalization; Neutralization; Neutralization of Acidic
Wastes; Neutralization of Alkaline Wastes; Coagulation; Coagulants;
Auxiliary chemicals; Flocculation - Aids; Coagulation &
Flocculation Equipments; Merits & Demerits of Coagulation;
Sedimentation; Floatation (Dissolved Air Floatation); Chapter - 14.
Secondary Biological Treatment; Activated Sludge Process; Trickling
Filtration; Aerated Lagoons; Oxidation Ponds; Anaerobic Digestion;
Sludge Disposal; Removal of Interfering Substances; Chapter - 15.
Tertiary Treatment; Multimedia Filtration; Chemical Coagulation;
Chemical Precipitation; Disinfection; Ozonation; Activated Carbon
Adsorption; Membrane Technology; Dialysis / Electro Dialysis;
Evaporation; Chapter - 16.Advanced Methods for the Treatment of
Textile Processing Waste Water; Advanced Oxidation Processes; Ozone
Treatment; Adsorption; Membrane Technology; Dialysis /
Electrodialysis; Ion Exchange; Evaporation; Crystallization;
Freezing; Some Patented Technics for Color Removal; Bio-mass based
Technologies; Cutting-EdgeTreatment Methods; Chapter - 17. Advanced
Oxidation Processes; Non-Photo chemical Methods; Ozonation;
Ozone/Hydrogen Peroxide Process; Fenton Method; Homogeneous
Photochemical Oxidation Processes; Vacuum-UV Photo Oxidation; UV
and Ozone; UV and Hydrogen Peroxide; UV, Ozone and Hydrogen
Peroxide; Photo Fenton Method; Heterogeneous Photochemical
Oxidation Processes; Chapter - 18. Ozone Treatment; Reactions of
Ozone in Waste Water Treatment; Oxidative Reactions and Color
Removal; BOD Reduction; Sludge Reduction; Advancements in Ozone
Treatment; Chapter - 19. Activated Carbon Adsorption; Chapter - 20.
Membrane Technology; Micro Filtration; Ultra Filtration; Nano
Filtration; Reverse Osmosis; Disc and Tube Module; Membrane
Bio-Reactors; Part - III. ANALYSIS OF TEXTILE PROCESSING EFFLUENTS;
Chapter - 21 Purpose of Examination; Chapter - 22.Collection of
Waste Water samples; Chapter - 23. Recording of Results; Chapter -
24. Analytical Methods - Important Notes; Chapter - 25. Parameters
to be determined on Textile Processing Effluents; Chapter - 26.
General Physico-Chemical Measurements; Chapter - 27. Measurement of
Organic Pollution; Chapter - 28. Inorganic Constituents - Non
Metallics; Chapter - 29. Inorganic Constituents - Metals; Chapter -
30. Miscellaneous Determination; Appendix; Index
As featured on the PBS series "How We Got to Now" Perhaps no other
advancement of public health has been as significant. Yet, few know
the intriguing story of a simple idea-disinfecting public water
systems with chlorine-that in just 100 years has saved more lives
than any other single health development in human history. At the
turn of the 20th century, most scientists and doctors called the
addition of chloride of lime, a poisonous chemical, to public water
supplies not only a preposterous idea but also an illegal act -
until a courageous physician, Dr. John L. Leal, working with George
W. Fuller, the era's greatest sanitary engineer, proved it could be
done safely and effectively on a large scale. This is the first
book to tell the incredible true story of the first use of chlorine
to disinfect a city water supply, in Jersey City, New Jersey, in
1908. This important book also corrects misinformation long-held in
the historical record about who was responsible for this momentous
event, giving overdue recognition to the true hero of the story-an
unflagging champion of public health, Dr. John L. Leal. Download
excerpt
AWWA's most popular handbook for distribution operator personnel is
an indispensable reference for operators and supervisors alike on
water distribution system operation and equipment. This fourth
edition is based on the operator certification knowledge
requirements included in the Associated Boards of Certification
(ABC) Need-To-Know criteria, as well as that of several state
certification boards (e.g. California, Pennsylvania, and
Texas).What's new?Several new chapters cover topics that have
emerged since the publication of the last edition, and others,
including the regulatory overview chapter, were revised
extensively. New chapters describe the management approach to
distribution system operation and the operational practices
operators can use to improve system performance. The disinfection
of pipelines and storage facilities is now included as its own
chapter.And the math calculations that distribution system
operators need to know are included as concrete examples of what
operators need to know.Additional coverage includes the types of
water pipes, installation practices, excavation, pipe flushing and
rehabilitation, storage tanks, water wells, pumps, motors,
hydrants, meters, valves, corrosion prevention, leak detection,
instrumentation and control, maps, records, and maintenance.In
addition, the book covers basic hydraulic concepts, health issues,
and maintaining water quality in the distribution system. Many
cutaway illustrations, new equipment photos, metric conversions,
formulas, and equations make it an ideal day-to-day reference.
NRC's Offices of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) and Federal and
State Materials and Environmental Management Programs (FSME)
organized this Workshop on Engineered Barrier Performance Related
to Low-Level Radioactive Waste, Decommissioning, and Uranium Mill
Tailings Facilities. The workshop was held August 3-5, 2010 at the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Headquarters Auditorium,
11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. The Workshop was
coordinated with the States (i.e., Texas, South Carolina, Utah,
Colorado, Washington, and New York), Tribal Nations (Navajo,
Umatilla and Nez Perce), and Federal agencies (e.g., U.S.
Department of Energy DOE], U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
EPA], U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research
Service USDA/ARS], U.S. Geological Survey USGS], and DOE National
Laboratories). The workshop technical topics focused on engineered
surface covers and bottom liners designed to isolate waste by
impeding surface-water infiltration into the waste systems and
mitigating the migration of contaminants from the waste disposal
site. Topics included engineered barrier performance, modeling,
monitoring, and regulatory experiences at low-level radioactive
waste, decommissioning, and uranium mill tailings sites. The
workshop objectives included: (1) facilitation of communication
among Federal and State staff and contractors and selected experts
on current engineered barrier issues and technical and regulatory
experiences; (2) discussion of lessons learned and approaches for
monitoring and modeling; (3) preparation of recommendations to
address maintenance of engineered barrier performance over time;
and (4) identification of topics for future research and the
potential need to update technical guidance. Recommendations and
insights given during session presentations, panel debates, and the
discussions that followed were documented by the session reporters
and are included in this report.
Producing and delivering the highest quality drinking water takes
training, knowledge, and attention to detail. Water operators do it
every day with the top training and best practices they get from
Water Treatment Operator Training Handbook, AWWA members' most
popular choice for operator training and on-the-job reference. The
third edition has all the current information that water treatment
operators need to produce safe drinking water that protects the
public health and to deliver adequate quantities of water at all
times for fire-fighting and commercial and residential uses.The
book covers all regulations, processes, and procedures of water
treatment operations:US water quality regulationsWater sourcesWell
design and operationPretreatmentCoagulation and
flocculationSedimentationFiltrationDisinfectionSofteningSpecialized
treatmentMembranesTestingProcess control and
instrumentationSafetyRecord keeping and reporting
Troubleshooting granular filters can take hours and frustrate even
the most experienced water operators. Find and solve filter
problems fast with this handbook. Authored by a filter designer and
consultant who holds several patents in filtration, this book has
all the information needed to troubleshoot granular media filters,
understand how they work, and maintain optimum filter
performance.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Driving Head3.
Plenum/Flume Hydraulics4. Filter Support Gravel5. Filter Media6.
Underdrain7. Optimizing Backwash8. Filter Controls9. Gravity Filter
Troubleshooting Procedures10. Pressure Filters11. Filter
Maintenance12. SummaryAppendix: Water Treatment Chemistry and Jar
Testing ProceduresAppendix: Troubleshooting ChecklistsAppendix:
Historical Records
Population growth and unchallenged water use have brought us to the
brink of a worldwide water crisis. This fascinating book presents
scenarios for the broad trends that will have a significant impact
upon future water challenges. Examine what the next 100 years may
bring to water use, prices, and availability--and how individuals,
water utilities, industries, and countries can change the future of
water.Your time machine into the future The Future of Water: A
Startling Look Ahead is an intriguingly realistic look at-The
future of water use at homeGrass species that live on common
seawater, clothes washers that use a cup of water per load--or no
water at all, UV-light dishwashers, and toilets that flush with
reused bathwater...all these are closer than you think.-The future
of agricultural water useLearn the many innovative ways farmers are
growing more food with less water. In coming years, don't be
surprised if you see on packaging, "Irrigated with natural
rainfall, no fossil waters used." -The future of industrial water
useWe will see industry increasingly move to where water is
plentiful. Old industrial cities in the rainy northeast US that
have been shrinking and decaying for decades may experience
revitalization.-The future sources of waterReclamation and reuse of
wastewater and stormwater will be commonplace sources of water for
drinking, energy production, agriculture, and industry. Climate
changes and global warming will increase precipitation in some
locales and decrease it in others.-The future of water storage
America is tearing down many old dams, while China and Africa are
on dam-building binges. How will the US meet its water storage
needs with fewer dams? What do these new Chinese and African
dams-some the biggest ever built-mean for the future of water?-The
future of water utilitiesWatch for widespread consolidation of
small utilities for efficiency and cost-savings. Many water
utilities will follow Singapore's lead to become better at
educating the public of the true value of water.-The future of
water businessLearn about innovative solutions to the challenges of
water scarcity, storage, treatment, and distribution. -The future
role of waterRivers, lakes, and aquifers cross political borders,
creating conflicts. Learn about many innovative technologies and
creative solutions to water problems.""Steve Maxwell takes us
straight into the realities of the water crisis that is now
spreading through all parts of the country, and indeed the entire
world.""Bruce Babbitt, Former US Secretary of the Interior""An
excellent and somewhat startling book. Concise...with an amazing
amount of information.""Bernard P. Kryzs, President and Publisher,
Water Utility Infrastructure Management
Specially designed for in-the-field use, this comprehensive yet
compact book will pay for itself over and over in the time you save
looking for chemical and mathematic formulas, chemical feed rates,
US/metric conversions, pipe and equipment data, operational
parameters, construction and installation information, OSHA and
USEPA regulations, and much more. More than 20 tables have been
updated from the 2004 edition, to reflect information in current
AWWA standards and manuals in this new edition. Many example
calculations were converted to a more understandable format.
Information has also been added on drought, emergency disinfection,
membranes, nitrification, fluoridation, external corrosion,
backflow prevention, PE pipe, fire flow requirements, sizing
service lines and meters, and water audits and loss control, and
more. Included is a CD with the checklists which can be printed
multiple times along with color photos of the related signage.
(Replaces ISBN 9781583213155)
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