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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.
List of contents
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.
About the author
JERALD L. SCHNOOR, PhD, PE, DEE, is Foundation Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa.
Summary
This book provides an accessible introduction to the underlying scientific and physical processes that determine how chemicals react with their environments, and shows how to develop models that can help predict their effects. Offers a broad and modern perspective to environmental modeling, covering ground water, atmosphere, soil and global change.
