Basic Water Treatment, now in its sixth edition, is an accessible and practical guide to all aspects of potable water quality and treatment. Focusing on the issues of most interest to practising engineers, it provides examples of good practice, summarises key issues and criteria, and includes additional theory to explain and support the treatment processes considered.
This new edition has been fully updated and has also been expanded to cover additional processes and topics, and to take account of developing concerns relating to emerging contaminants. It includes new chapters on activated carbon adsorption and water re-use to reflect the increasing importance of these subjects, and significant updates to sections on disinfection, emerging contaminants, membrane processes, desalination and advanced oxidation processes.
Basic Water Treatment is an essential resource for water engineers at all levels - a textbook for students, a handbook for engineers or chemists who are new to the industry, and an indispensable guide full of updated practical information for the established practitioner.
Chris Binnie, FREng FICE, has worked and lectured extensively in many countries. Past president of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Institution of Civil Engineers, he is now a Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter s Centre for Water Systems. Martin Kimber, Ceng MICE, is a water treatment specialist with over 30 years experience of working on all aspects of water quality and treatment, most recently with Atkins Water. Prior to joining Atkins, where he gained many years of experience both in the UK and overseas, he worked for companies in the USA and in Kenya. His experience encompasses the full range of water treatment plants from simple third world slow sand processes to modern advanced water treatment. Hugh Thomas, CWEM, Csci, FCIWEM, AMIChemE, is a Chief Process Engineer with 20 years experience in the Water and Wastewater treatment industry. He is currently Technical Authority for Process Engineering within Atkins Water, with national responsibility for leading technical excellence, innovation and quality. During his career, he has held positions in client, consultant and contractor organisations. He is on the committee of the IChemE Water Special Interest Group and the Industry Advisory Panel at Cranfield University.
