Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A major challenge facing society in the 21st Century is designing an environment in which we benefit from the multitude of chemicals of commerce, but ensuring that these substances do not cause excessive exposures and ultimately adverse effects to us or to our ecosystems. This task can only be accomplished by a quantitative scientific and engineering strategy of understanding and managing chemical sources, fate and transport, reactions and exposures with the intent of ultimately eliminating adverse effects. This textbook takes an engineering approach to this task by providing the student, faculty and practitioner with a comprehensive account of these fundamentals with a view to contributing to a safer, 'greener' environment. It deserves a place on the bookshelf of everyone dedicated to designing and creating an environment free from the adverse effects of chemicals.
Don Mackay - Trent University, Canada
Cleary written for easy understanding, logically laid out for progressive learning, and supplemented with lot of worked examples, an excellent textbook suitable for senior and graduate students in environmental curriculum who may not have taken adequate coursework in chemistry. This book can also serve as valuable resource for environmental practitioners who want to acquire an in-depth and sound understanding of thermodynamics and kinetics. Case studies, extensive tables and figures, updated thermodynamic and kinetic data in appendices, and contemporary issues such as life cycle analysis and green engineering are a plus.
Chunlong Zhang - University of Houston-Clear Lake, Texas
Based on the successes of previous editions Principles of Environmental Thermodynamics and Kinetics, Fourth Edition provides an overarching view of the applications of chemical thermodynamics and kinetics in various aspects of the field of environmental science and engineering. Applications to current issues such as global climate change, green engineering, nanotechnology and environmental transport of chemicals are also included.
New in this Edition:
Improved logical progression of text with principles and applications
Additional examples and problems in response to environmental events
Updated appendices and increased number of thermodynamic and kinetic data for chemical species Synopsis
Environmental engineering, is by its very nature, interdisciplinary and it is a challenge to develop courses that will provide students with a thorough broad-based curriculum that includes every aspect of the environmental engineering profession. Environmental engineers perform a variety of functions, most critical of which are process design for waste treatment or pollution prevention, fate and transport modeling, green engineering, and risk assessment. Chemical thermodynamics and chemical kinetics, the two main pillars of physical chemistry, are two of the many subjects that are crucial to environmental engineering.
Based on the success of the successes of previous editions, Principles of Environmental Thermodynamics and Kinetics, Fourth Edition, provides an overarching view of the applications of chemical thermodynamics and kinetics in various aspects of the field of environmental science and engineering.
Written by experts in the field, this new edition offers an improved logical progression of the text with principles and applications, includes new case studies with current relevant environmental events and their relationship to thermodynamics and kinetics, and adds examples and problems for the updated environmental events. It also includes a comprehensive analysis of green engineering with relation applications, updated appendices, and an increased number of thermodynamic and kinetic data for chemical species.
While it is primarily intended for undergraduate students at the junior/senior level, the breadth and scope of this book make it a valuable resource for introductory graduate courses and a useful reference for environmental engineers.