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Water Chemistry provides students with the tools necessary to understand the processes that control the chemical species present in waters of both natural and engineered systems. After providing basic information about water and its chemical composition in environmental systems, the text covers the theory and background material necessary to solve problems.
List of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Symbols and Acronyms
- Symbols
- Acronyms
- Units for physical quantities
- Important constants
- Conversion Factors
- Energy-related quantities
- Pressure
- Some useful relationships
- Part I. Prologue
- 1 Introductory matters
- 2 Aqueous geochemistry I: Inorganic chemical composition of natural waters
- Part II. Theory, Fundamentals, and Important Tools
- 3 The thermodynamic basis for equilibrium chemistry
- 4 Activity-concentration relationships
- 5 Fundamentals of chemical kinetics
- 6 Fundamentals of organic chemistry for environmental systems
- Part III. Chemical Equilibria and Kinetics
- 7 Principles of acid-base equilibria
- 8 Solving acid-base equilibria and the carbonate system
- 9 Complexation reactions and metal ion speciation
- 10 Solubility: Reactions of solid phases with water
- 11 Redox equilibria and kinetics
- 12 Surface chemistry and sorption
- 13 Partitioning and chemical transformations of organic contaminants
- Part IV. Chemistry of Natural Waters and Engineered Systems
- 14 Fundamentals of photochemistry and some applications in aquatic systems
- 15 Chemistry of chlorine and other oxidants/disinfectants
- 16 Aqueous geochemistry II: Provenance, weathering, and landscape models for natural waters
- 17 The minor elements: Fe, Mn, Al
- 18 Dissolved oxygen
- 19 Nutrient cycles and the chemistry of nitrogen and phosphorus
- 20 Natural organic matter
- Appendix: Free energies and enthalpies of formation of common
- chemical species
- Index
About the author
Patrick L. Brezonik is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research interests have included various surface water quality issues, nutrient chemistry, natural organic matter, and applications of satellite imagery to analyze large-scale patterns in surface water quality.
William A. Arnold is the Distinguished McKnight University and Joseph T. Rose S. Ling Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include transformation and remediation of anthropogenic chemicals in the environment, photochemistry, and surface-mediated redox processes.
Summary
Water Chemistry provides students with the tools necessary to understand the processes that control the chemical species present in waters of both natural and engineered systems. After providing basic information about water and its chemical composition in environmental systems, the text covers the theory and background material necessary to solve problems.
