Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment,
Edition 3
Editors:
By Harold F. Hemond and Elizabeth J. Fechner
Publication Date:
25 Jun 2014
The third edition of Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment—winner of a 2015 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from The Text and Academic Authors Association—explains the fundamental principles of mass transport, chemical partitioning, and chemical/biological transformations in surface waters, in soil and groundwater, and in air. Each of these three major environmental media is introduced by descriptive overviews, followed by a presentation of the controlling physical, chemical, and biological processes. The text emphasizes intuitively based mathematical models for chemical transport and transformations in the environment, and serves both as a textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental science and engineering, and as a standard reference for environmental practitioners.
Key Features
- Winner of a 2015 Texty Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association
- Includes many worked examples as well as extensive exercises at the end of each chapter
- Illustrates the interconnections and similarities among environmental media through its coverage of surface waters, the subsurface, and the atmosphere
- Written and organized concisely to map to a single-semester course
- Discusses and builds upon fundamental concepts, ensuring that the material is accessible to readers who do not have an extensive background in environmental science
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Basic Concepts
- Abstract
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Chemical Concentration
- 1.3 Mass Balance and Units
- 1.4 Physical Transport of Chemicals
- 1.5 Mass Balance in an Infinitely Small Control Volume: The Advection-Dispersion-Reaction Equation
- 1.6 Basic Environmental Chemistry
- 1.7 Chemical Distribution Among Phases at Equilibrium
- 1.8 Analytical Chemistry and Measurement Error
- 1.9 Conclusion
- Chapter 2: Surface Waters
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Physical Transport in Surface Waters
- 2.3 Air-Water Exchange
- 2.4 Chemical and Biological Characteristics of Surface Waters
- 2.5 Dissolved Oxygen Modeling in Surface Waters
- 2.6 Biotransformation and Biodegradation
- 2.7 Abiotic Chemical Transformations
- 2.8 Conclusion
- Chapter 3: The Subsurface Environment
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Physics of Groundwater Movement
- 3.3 Flow in the Unsaturated (Vadose) Zone
- 3.4 The Flow of Nonaqueous Phase Liquids
- 3.5 Retardation
- 3.6 Biodegradation in the Subsurface Environment
- 3.7 Subsurface Remediation
- 3.8 Conclusion
- Chapter 4: The Atmosphere
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Atmospheric Stability
- 4.3 Circulation of the Atmosphere
- 4.4 Transport of Chemicals in the Atmosphere
- 4.5 Physical Removal of Chemicals from the Atmosphere
- 4.6 Atmospheric Chemical Reactions
- 4.7 The Greenhouse Effect and Global Climate Change
- 4.8 Conclusion
- Appendix: Dimensions and Units for Environmental Quantities
- A.1 Fundamental Dimensions and Common Units of Measurement
- A.2 Derived Dimensions and Common Units
- Index
ISBN:
9780123982568
Page Count: 486
Retail Price
:
£89.99
9780128005507
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Senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students in environmental science or environmental engineering programs; students in other disciplines, such as geotechnical engineering, who seek basic environmental literacy; practitioners in environmental consulting and management firms and government agencies
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