Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse, 4th Edition (WETR), 4th Edition

Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse is an essential reference for civil and environmental engineers. The book describes the technological and regulatory changes that have occurred in wastewater engineering over the last 10 years and presents information on the current state of wastewater engineering technology.

A Practical Reference for Wastewater Engineering

• Addresses new developments and changes in the field of wastewater engineering for up-to-date coverage of important issues


• Provides numerous example problems to enhance the understanding of wastewater concepts


• Includes over 570 illustrations, graphs, diagrams and photographs which illustrate the principles and facilities involved in wastewater management


• Contains more than 300 tables to aid in the planning analysis, and design of wastewater management systems

Topics Covered

• Advanced Wastewater Treatment


• Anaerobic Suspended and Attached Growth Biological Treatment Processes


• Attached Growth and Combined Biological Treatment Processes


• Chemical Unit Processes


• Constituents in Wastewater


• Disinfection Processes


• Fundamentals of Biological Treatment


• Physical Unit Operations


• Process Analysis and Selection


• Suspended Growth Biological Treatment Processes


• Treatment, Reuse, and Disposal of Solids and Biosolids


• Treatment-Plant Performance


• Wastewater Engineering


• Wastewater Flowrates and Constituent Loadings


• Water Resuse