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About the Book
An Applied Guide to Water and Effluent Treatment Plant Design is ideal for chemical, civil and environmental engineering students, graduates, and early career water engineers as well as more experienced practitioners who are transferring into the water sector. It brings together the design of process, wastewater, clean water, industrial effluent and sludge treatment plants, looking at the different treatment objectives within each sub-sector, selection and design of physical, chemical and biological treatment processes, and the professional hydraulic design methodologies.
This book will show you how to carry out the key steps in the process design of all kinds of water and effluent treatment plants. It provides an essential refresher on the relevant underlying principles of engineering science, fluid mechanics, water chemistry and biology, together with a thorough description of the heuristics and rules of thumb commonly used by experienced practitioners. The water treatment plant designer will also find specific advice on plant layout, aesthetics, economic considerations and related issues such as odor control.
About the Author
I have been designing, troubleshooting and commissioning process plants since 1991. This is the area I write about.
I write the first draft of my books quickly, straight off the top of my head, based on my personal experience. I then have the draft reviewed in parts by large numbers of other practicing engineers to ensure that it is complete, current and correct.
I then review the reviews, and the sources they suggest, amend and add to the text and then start to bring the text together into a unified whole. Repeated review, rewriting, refining and proof reading takes up far more time than the initial writing stage.
My books are therefore based largely on my own experience and that of the hundreds of other practising engineers who contribute to and review the texts. They are intended to assist others with the process of making engineering education fit for purpose, and to show those wishing to become engineers what practicing engineers think engineering is really about.