Biological Wastewater Treatment Processes: Mass and Heat Balances

ISBN-13: 9781482229264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 467 str.

Davide Dionisi

Opis

In our environmentally-conscious present, effective wastewater treatment processes consistently play a major role in determining the continued health and prosperity of global communities, affecting larger matters of environmental reform, governmental administration, and models of public safety. To the ever-expanding field of wastewater treatment theory, Dr. Davide Dionisi contributes this insightful guide examining the use of mass and heat balances to simulate and design biological wastewater treatment processes. All these processes and more are covered in Dr. Dionisi s Biological Wastewater Treatment Processes: Mass and Heat Balances, which carefully examines modern methods of wastewater cleaning through activated sludge processes for carbon and nitrogen removal, anaerobic digestion, sequencing batch reactors and attached growth processes. Dr. Dionisi provides concise models and meticulously detailed case studies that effectively describe the principles of stoichiometry and the kinetics of biological and non-biological processes occurring in biological wastewater treatment processes. This detailed resource acts as a step-by-step guide to writing the mass and heat balances appropriate for any process configurations and showing their use to calculate the reactor volume, the flow rates of all streams, aeration requirements, sludge production, the size of the settling tank, and the pH. In addition, this book provides: - Detailed procedures to write the stoichiometry and kinetics of biological processes; - Detailed guide to pH calculations in biological processes; - Design and simulation of aerobic, anoxic and anaerobic processes; - Numerous worked examples and problems, all solved using Microsoft Excel."

Spis treści

Biological Wastewater Treatment Processes. Modelling Processes in Biological Wastewater Treatment. Mass Balances, Energy Balances and Parameter Estimation. The Activated Sludge Process. The Anaerobic Digestion Process. The Sequencing Batch Reactor. Attached Growth Processes. Appendixes.

O autorze

Davide Dionisi, CEng MIChemE is a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at University of Aberdeen, where he teaches courses in the areas of biochemical engineering, biological wastewater treatment and energy from biomass at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Dr Dionisi has over 15 years of experience in biological wastewater treatment and process engineering. He is the author of over 30 papers in international peer reviewed journals, over 50 contributions to conferences and 2 patents. Dr Dionisi’s papers have received over 1,400 citations and his h-index is 20. Dr Dionisi has been Principal Investigator in many projects on wastewater treatment and waste valorization. Additionally, Dr Dionisi is a Chartered Member of the IChemE and of the Engineering Council and is member of the Italian Association of Chemical Engineering (AIDIC).