Aquatic Chemistry: For Water and Wastewater Treatment Applications (De Gruyter Textbook) (de Gruyter Stem)

This book provides chemical concepts as well as crucial steps for inorganic water and wastewater treatment. Examples and tools help to understand and to guide through industrial and natural water process engineering. Chemical and environmental engineers, researchers and professionals, as well as students benefit from this concise and explanatory book. * Explains and deepens fundamentals of the chemistry of aqueous solutions * Describes water and wastewater treatment processes as well as desalination processes Preface 5 Contents 7 1. Water chemistry fundamentals 13 2. Acids and bases 39 3. Alkalinity and acidity as tools for quantifying acid-base equilibrium and designing water and wastewater treatment processes 79 4. Use of alkalinity and acidity equations for quantifying phenomena in chemical/ environmental engineering and design of water and wastewater treatment processes 113 5. Equilibrium between the aqueous and gas phases and implications for water treatment processes 137 6. Principles of equilibrium between the aqueous and solid phases with emphasis on precipitation and dissolution of CaCO 3(S) 157 7. Computer software for calculations in the field of aquatic chemistry and water treatment processes, with an emphasis on the Stasoft4.0 program 175 8. Water softening using the lime-soda ash softening method 191 9. Water stabilization and remineralization 205 10. Problems and solutions 225 References 255 Index 259

This book provides chemical concepts as well as crucial steps for inorganic water and wastewater treatment. Examples and tools help to understand and to guide through industrial and natural water process engineering. Chemical and environmental engineers, researchers and professionals, as well as students benefit from this concise and explanatory book.

This book provides chemical concepts as well as crucial steps for inorganic water and wastewater treatment. Examples and tools help to understand and to guide through industrial and natural water process engineering. Students in chemical and environmental engineering as well as researchers and professionals benefit from this concise and explanatory book.