Water Finance - Public Responsibilities and Private Opportunities

The Latest Tactics and Strategies for Treating Every Kind of Industrial Wastewater

Industrial Wastewater Management offers proven methods to help you treat toxic, concentrated, and polluted water. Complete with illustrations and tables throughout, this authoritative guide contains information on the newest chemicals, significant treatment studies, efficient control processes, and the latest instrumentation. Industrial Wastewater Management equips you with the know-how for treating and removing heavy metals, arsenic, selenium, and mercury by providing detailed descriptions of pretreatment processes, design criteria, and process performance.

Features include:

• Characteristic, sampling, and treatment studies
• The latest techniques and materials for heavy-metal removal
• Arsenic, selenium, and mercury treatment processes
• Applications for biological treatment
• Instrumentation and control procedures
• Design and construction procurement services
• SI as primary units and U.S. as secondary
• Pros and cons of processes in specific applications

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Reverse osmosis is rapidly growing as a water treatment technology used for many applications, such as boiler feed water and recovering wastwater for reuse. This "green" technology is becoming more and more widely used in many settings, especially in industry. Even as the technology becomes more widespread, the understanding of the technology is lagging behind. Reverse Osmosis provides an essential reference for any process or chemical engineer working with this emergent technology.

This outstanding reference:

• Provides a comprehensive and thorough coverage of reverse osmosis technology
• Discusses fundamental processes and equipment for operating and troubleshooting a reverse osmosis system, such as reverse osmosis principles, membrane technology, and flow patterns
• Covers more advanced engieering topics for specific industrial applications, such as system design
• Features clear, consise language written in easy-to-understand language, providing engineers immediate ability to implement a reverse osmosis program

For years, Canadians have been hearing nothing but bad news out of the Athabasca Oil Sands. From 20th Century economists decrying it as a perpetual money-loser in the face of more easily-extracted foreign oil to green groups around the world declaring it the world's worst industrial enterprise, sometimes it seems as though no good could ever come from this so-called dirty resource.

But what if developing Canada's Oil Sands was the key to bridging the gap between current petroleum-based economies and the alternative energies that aren't ready for market yet? What if it meant eliminating the threat of Peak Oil and providing economic stability not just for Canada and the rest of North America, but for the world? And what if the environmental costs of the resource were both not nearly as dire as some would have you believe, but currently better than many other options with the industry already making huge advances in sustainability, energy use and water reclamation?