This text has two unifying themes: materials balances and environmental ethics. First, the book demonstrates that environmental problems need to be solved using a holistic approach instead of a fragmented, single-pollution or single-medium approach. By using the concepts of materials balances, reactions, and reactors, the authors integrate and unify the presentation of water supply, waste-water treatment, air pollution control, and solid and hazardous waste management. Second, since ethics plays an increasingly important part in the professional lives of engineers, the authors incorporate ethical decision making into the discussions and problems. In many of the problems, students are required not only to solve the technical part, but also to consider the ethical ramifications of solving the technical problems.
P. Aarne Vesilind Libri
Profondamente influenzato dalla difesa della consapevolezza ambientale di Rachel Carson, Aarne Vesilind ha dedicato la sua carriera all'insegnamento e alla ricerca nel campo dell'ingegneria. La sua permanenza alla Duke University e, successivamente, alla Bucknell University ha favorito programmi innovativi e la mentorship per numerosi studenti. Vesilind ha anche fondato Lakeshore Press, una casa editrice focalizzata su testi accademici e memorie, in particolare quelle che descrivevano le esperienze degli estoni durante e dopo l'occupazione sovietica. La sua eredità è definita dal suo impegno per l'istruzione, la coscienza ambientale e la preservazione della memoria culturale.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to air, water, noise, and radioactive materials pollution and its control. Legal and regulatory principles and risk analysis are included in addition to engineering principles. The text presents the engineering principles governing the generation and control of air and water pollutants, solid and hazardous waste, and noise. Water quality and drinking water treatment are discussed, as well as the elements of risk analysis. Radioactive waste generation and treatment in relation to the nuclear fuel cycle, are discussed. The health and environmental effects of all these pollutants are discussed. An introduction to the Federal laws and regulations governing pollution is included. - This text embraces the latest thinking in environmental engineering - Includes updates in regulation and current pollution abatement technologies