Environmental Transport Processes, Second Edition

A unique approach to the challenges of complex environmental systems

Environmental Transport Processes, Second Edition provides much-needed guidance on mass transfer principles in environmental engineering. It focuses on working with uncontrolled conditions involving biological and physical systems, offering examples from diverse fields, including mass transport, kinetics, wastewater treatment, and unit processes.

This new edition is fully revised and updated, incorporating modern approaches and practice problems at the end of chapters, making the Second Edition more concise, accessible, and easy to use.

The book discusses the fundamentals of transport processes occurring in natural environments, with special emphasis on working at the biological?physical interface. It considers transport and kinetics in terms of systems that involve microorganisms, along with in-depth coverage of particles, size spectra, and calculations for particles that can be considered either spheres or fractals. The book's treatment of particles as fractals is especially unique and the Second Edition includes a new section on exoelectrogenic biofilms. It also addresses dispersion in natural and engineered systems unlike any other book on the subject.

Readers will learn to tackle with confidence complex environmental systems and make transport calculations in heterogeneous environments with mixtures of chemicals.Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–17):
Chapter 2 Equilibrium Calculations (pages 18–42):
Chapter 3 Diffusive Transport (pages 43–78):
Chapter 4 The Constitutive Transport Equation (pages 79–94):
Chapter 5 Concentration Profiles and Chemical Fluxes (pages 95–119):
Chapter 6 Mass Transport Correlations: From Theory to Empiricism (pages 120–139):
Chapter 7 Transport in Sheared Reactors (pages 140–166):
Chapter 8 Suspended Unattached and Aggregated Microorganisms (pages 167–193):
Chapter 9 Biofilms (pages 194–231):
Chapter 10 Disperson (pages 232–263):
Chapter 11 Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans (pages 264–291):
Chapter 12 Chemical Transport in Porous Media (pages 292–330):
Chapter 13 Particles and Fractals (pages 331–361):
Chapter 14 Coagulation in Natural and Engineered Systems (pages 362–407):
Chapter 15 Particle Transport in Porous Media (pages 408–444):