Environmental engineering - Hardcover

Vesilind, P. Aarne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0409900508 ISBN 13: 9780409900507

Publisher: Butterworths, 1988

Synopsis

Environmental Engineering, Third Edition, provides a comprehensive introduction to air, water, noise, and radioactive materials pollution and its control. In addition to the engineering principles governing the generation and control of these pollutants, this up-to-date third edition focuses on legal and regulatory principles, risk analysis, and the effect these pollutants have on the environment.

Beginning with a historical background of environmental engineering, topics explored include water quality and waste water treatment, air pollution control, solid and hazardous waste disposal, noise pollution, environmental ethics, and a discussion on the increasingly important field of environmental engineering.
Introduces air, water, noise and radioactive materials pollutants and how to control them.
Includes the engineering and legal and regulatory principles involved.
Discusses the effects that the pollutants can have on the environment and how to analyze these risks.

About this title

Book Description:

Presents the latest thinking in environmental engineering, new changes in regulation, and current knowledge of pollution abatement technologies.

From the Publisher:

Beginning with a historical background of environmental engineering, topics explored include water quality and waste water treatment, air pollution control, solid and hazardous waste disposal, noise pollution, environmental ethics, and a discussion on the increasingly important field of environmental engineering.

About this edition

• Publisher: Butterworths
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0409900508
• ISBN 13: 9780409900507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 545