Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment / Edition 3

by Harold F. Hemond, Elizabeth J. Fechner

Overview

Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment, Fourth Edition explains the fundamental principles of mass transport, chemical partitioning, and chemical/biological transformations of pollutants and naturally occurring chemicals in surface waters, in the subsurface (which includes soil and groundwater), and in the atmosphere. Each of these three major environmental media is introduced by a descriptive overview, followed by presentations of the governing physical, chemical, and biological processes. The text emphasizes intuitively based mathematical models for chemical equilibria, transformations, and transport in the environment. This book serves as a primary text for graduate and senior undergraduate courses in environmental science and engineering, provides relevant scientific knowledge for students of public health and environmental policy, and is a useful reference for environmental practitioners.

This fourth edition builds on the third edition, which won a 2015 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from The Text and Academic Authors Association. This updated textbook expands the discussion of global climate change, presents concepts of stationarity and sustainability, provides additional coverage of wastewater treatment and air pollution abatement technologies, and includes information on additional anthropogenic pollutants such as plastics, PFAS, and nanoparticles. Tables, figures, and references are updated, and worked examples and practice exercises are included for each chapter.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780123982568
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	06/25/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	486
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Harry Hemond is William E. Leonhard Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a winner of MIT's Irwin Sizer Award for his course "Chemicals in the Environment: Fate and Transport," and has won multiple teaching awards. He is an author of numerous scientific papers on biogeochemistry and related environmental topics. A registered professional engineer, Professor Hemond has also consulted with governmental agencies and industry.

Elizabeth Fechner was a teaching assistant for the MIT course on which this book is based. She has worked for several environmental consulting firms, performing fate and transport analyses for private clients and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She has also provided technical support to attorneys in cases of environmental litigation.

Table of Contents

1. Basic Concepts2. Surface Waters3. The Subsurface Environment4. The Atmosphere

Appendix: Dimensions and Units for Environmental Quantities

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Winner of a 2015 Texty Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association

Editorial Reviews

A textbook for a one-semester graduate course covering the basic principles of chemical behavior in the environment but possibly appropriate as well for some undergraduate courses in environmental engineering. Students are expected to be familiar only with basic freshman chemistry, physics, and mathematics and may be environmental science students or may simply need some exposure to environmental transport and fate processes for another field. Hemond (civil and environmental engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Fechner-Levy have expanded and revised their 1994 edition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"...Covers almost all of the necessary topics for a straight environmental chemistry course. The strength of this book is the excellent quantitative approach that it presents to solving problems. Each section has worked example problems throughout the text, and concludes with 25 or more problems. An excellent solution manual is available." —ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

"...a succinct, yet substantive, review of chemical fate and transport processes in the environment...I recommend this book as an excellent overview of chemicals in the environment for student training and general support for the practicing environmental scientist." —Garth W. Redfield, for JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION

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