- Focuses on modern sustainable design concepts, processes, and practices
- Applies foundational principles of physics, chemistry, biology, and sustainability to creating solutions for managing and mitigating environmental problems
- Places emphasis on global issues such as pollution prevention and resource recovery
- Explains energy and mass balance concepts using numerous clear and engaging example problems
- Provides a coherent and unified approach to life cycle assessment and thinking development
- Features effective pedagogical tools, including numerical assessment and design problems, research activities, discussion topics, and extensive online learning resources
- Includes extensive teaching materials for instructors, such as active learning exercises, homework assignments, classroom activities, and a solutions manual
Table of Contents
Chapter One Sustainable Design, Engineering, and Innovation 1
Chapter Two Environmental Measurements 45
Chapter Three Chemistry 79
Chapter Four Physical Processes 129
Chapter Five Biology 196
Chapter Six Environmental Risk 260
Chapter Seven Water: Quantity and Quality 308
Chapter Eight Water Treatment 389
Chapter Nine Wastewater and Stormwater: Collection, Treatment, Resource Recovery 457
Chapter Ten Solid-Waste Management 541
Chapter Eleven Air Quality Engineering 596
Periodic table of the elements 679
Answers to Selected Problems 680
Index 690
