Environmental Modeling : Fate and Transport of Pollutants in Water, Air, and Soil

ISBN-13: 9780471124368 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 704 str.

Jerald Schnoor

Opis

This work provides an easily accessible introduction to environmental modelling and the fate of chemicals in air, water and soil. It demonstrates how to develop and solve mathematical models for a wide range of pollutants. Offers a broad and modern perspective to environmental modelling, covering ground water, atmosphere, soil and global change; thorough coverage of environmental chemistry; and numerous illustrations, examples and end-of-chapter problems.

Spis treści

Transport Phenomena.

Chemical Reaction Kinetics.

Equilibrium Chemical Modeling.

Eutrophication of Lakes.

Conventional Pollutants in Rivers.

Toxic Organic Chemicals.

Modeling Trace Metals.

Groundwater Contamination.

Atmospheric Deposition and Biogeochemistry.

Global Change and Global Cycles.

Appendices.

Index.

O autorze

Jerald L. Schnoor, PhD, PE, DEE, is Foundation Distin–guished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa. The author of numerous books and journal articles, Dr. Schnoor has been Codirector of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research at the University of Iowa since 1991, and is Coeditor of the Wiley–Interscience Series in Environmental Science and Technology.

Blurb

A comprehensive, thoroughly modern approach to environmental quality assessment

The only textbook to combine engineering transport fundamentals and equilibrium aquatic chemistry, Environmental Modeling brings a uniquely contemporary perspective to the assessment of environmental quality. Addressing key questions about fate, transport, and long–term effects of chemical pollutants in the environment, this inherently practical text gives readers the important tools they need to develop and solve their own mathematical models.

Contains detailed examples from a wide range of crucial water quality areas–conventional pollutants in rivers, eutrophication of lakes, and toxic organic chemicals and heavy metals in both surface and groundwaters

Examines current global issues, including atmospheric deposition, hazardous wastes, soil pollution, global change, and more

Features over 200 high–quality illustrations, plus skill–building problems in every chapter

Fresh in approach and broad in scope, Environmental Modeling is must reading for today′s graduate and advanced undergraduate students in environmental sciences and engineering–a rich, invaluable, and superlative new resource.