Advanced Wastewater Engineering : Process Design, Biological Treatment, Nutrient Removal, Water Reuse, and Resource Recovery
Overview
A wastewater process rarely fails on paper because one equation is missing. It fails when connected decisions are treated as isolated calculations.
Modern treatment and resource-recovery facilities must balance variable influent conditions, biological kinetics, solids separation, nutrient limits, energy demand, reliability, reuse goals, residuals handling, automation, and cost. A change in one unit can shift oxygen demand, recycle loading, sludge production, hydraulic risk, or downstream polishing needs. Advanced Wastewater Engineering helps readers replace fragmented calculations with a transparent, plant-wide design method.
The book moves from characterization, sampling, mass balances, stoichiometry, kinetics, and reactor models into process selection, sizing, control, validation, and integration. The emphasis is not on one preferred technology. It is on stating boundaries, identifying controlling mechanisms, testing assumptions, comparing alternatives, quantifying uncertainty, and carrying each decision into operation and resilience.
What this guide helps you do
- Build defensible design bases from flow, loading, sampling, and characterization data.
- Apply mass balances, reaction stoichiometry, kinetics, and reactor concepts to treatment decisions.
- Compare activated sludge, attached-growth, biofilm, granular-sludge, anaerobic, and membrane-based systems.
- Integrate nitrogen and phosphorus control with aeration, clarification, carbon needs, recycles, and solids handling.
- Evaluate tertiary treatment, disinfection, advanced oxidation, adsorption, emerging-contaminant control, and reclamation barriers.
- Connect digestion, biosolids, biogas, nutrient recovery, instrumentation, automation, energy, carbon, and economics.
The material is written for upper-level engineering students, graduate students who need a design-oriented foundation, and practicing engineers seeking a compact but technically rigorous reference. Readers should be comfortable with introductory chemistry, microbiology, fluid mechanics, and mass balances. The book supports structured professional judgment; it does not replace current regulations, permits, site data, pilot work, or appropriate technical review.
Use this guide to turn treatment objectives and scattered calculations into a coherent process train and a traceable engineering decision.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798178886571
- ISBN-10: 9798178886571
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.97 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.45 pounds
- Page Count: 484
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