Handbook of Environment and Waste Management : Acid Rain and Greenhouse Gas Pollution Control

The third volume in the Handbook of Environment and Waste Management Series, this book provides a comprehensive compilation of topics at the forefront of many of the technical advances and practices in acid rain and greenhouse gas pollution control. Comprising chapters contributed by internationally recognized authorities in the field of environment and waste management on their areas of expertise, readers may obtain all necessary technical information on control technologies and methods for management of acid rain and greenhouse gases from this work.

This handbook is an essential source and one-stop reference for professionals and researchers in the areas of acid rain and greenhouse gas pollution control, and as a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in these fields.

Readership: Professionals and researchers in the areas of acid rain and greenhouse gas pollution control, and as a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in these fields.

YUNG-TSE HUNG, PhD, PE, DEE, F-ASCE, has been professor of civil engineering at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, since 1981. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He has taught at 16 universities in 8 countries. His primary research interests and publications have been involved with biological wastewater treatment, industrial water pollution control and industrial waste treatment, and municipal wastewater treatment.

Prof. Hung has over 400 publications and presentations on water and wastewater treatment. He received his BSCE and MSCE degrees from National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, and his PhD degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Environment and Waste Management, Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Environmental Engineering, and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Environmental Engineering Science.

LAWRENCE K WANG, PhD, PE, DEE, is a retired dean/director of the Lenox Institute of Water Technology and Krofta Engineering Corporation, Massachusetts, USA, and a retired VP of Zorex Corporation, Newtonville, New York, USA. He has over 25 years of experience in facility design, plant construction, operation, and management. He has expertise in water supply, air pollution control, solid waste disposal, water resources, waste treatment, hazardous waste management and site remediation. Prof. Wang is the author of over 700 scientific papers and 40 books, and the inventor of 24 US patents. He received his BSCE degree from National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, ROC, his MSc. degrees from both the University of Missouri at Rolla and the University of Rhode Island at Kingston, and his PhD degree from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, and was a recipient of the NYS Water Environment Association's Kenneth Research Award and US Pollution Engineering's Best Engineering Award.

NAZIH K SHAMMAS, PhD, is an ex-dean and director of the Lenox Institute of Water Technology, and advisor to Krofta Engineering Corporation, Lenox, Massachusetts. He has been an environmental expert, professor and consultant for over forty years. He has experience in environmental planning; curriculum development; teaching and scholarly research; and expertise in water quality control, wastewater reclamation and reuse, physicochemical and biological treatment processes and water and wastewater systems. Prof. Shammas is the author of over 250 publications and 18 books in the field of environmental engineering. He received his BEng. degree from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, MSc. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and PhD from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and was the recipient of Block Grant from the University of Michigan, First Award of the year from the Sigma Xi Society, Commendation from ABET, and the winner of the GCC Prize for Best Environmental Work.