Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment
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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
Readership
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
Table of Contents
- 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
Product details
- No. of pages: 486
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2014
- Published: June 13, 2014
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780123982667
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780123982568
About the Authors
Harold Hemond
Harry Hemond is William E. Leonhard Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has authored numerous scientific papers on biogeochemistry and related environmental topics. A registered professional engineer, Professor Hemond has also consulted with governmental agencies and industry. He is a winner of MIT's Irwin Sizer Award for his course "Chemicals in the Environment: Fate and Transport," and also holds a Graduate Student Council teaching award.
Affiliations and Expertise
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Elizabeth Fechner
Elizabeth Fechner has worked for several environmental consulting firms, including Abt Associates, Inc, 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.
Affiliations and Expertise
Abt Associates, Inc., Bethesda, MD, USA
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