Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Industrial Water Quality or Literature and Revolution in England 1640 1660

Industrial Water Quality

Author: W Wesley Eckenfelder

The classic guide to controlling industrial water pollution–updated with the latest regulations and new technologies

Turn to the Fourth Edition of Industrial Water Quality for guidance on state-of-the-art methods for optimizing or upgrading existing wastewater treatment systems, as well as selecting the best treatment options to solve specific wastewater problems. This hands-on tool reflects today’s more stringent water-quality regulations and the new technologies developed to meet them. Filled with examples and case studies from a variety of industries, the book covers reverse osmosis or alternative membrane processes and discusses Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) processes.

W.Wesley Eckenfelder, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., provides technical direction and management of wastewater projects at AquAeTer.

Davis L. Ford (Austin, TX) is president of Davis L. Ford Associates, an environmental consulting firm.

Andrew J. Englande, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., is a professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.



Table of Contents:

1 Source and Characteristics of Industrial Wastewaters 1

2 Wastewater Treatment Processes 49

3 Pre- and Primary Treatment 65

4 Coagulation, Precipitation, and Metals Removal 137

5 Aeration and Mass Transfer 179

6 Principles of Aerobic Biological Oxidation 225

7 Biological Wastewater Treatment Processes 403

8 Adsorption 525

9 Ion Exchange 565

10 Chemical Oxidation 577

11 Sludge Handling and Disposal 603

12 Miscellaneous Treatment Processes 663

13 Treatment: Oil/Gas Exploration/Production Residuals 711

14 Chlorinated Compounds, VOCs, and Odor Control 747

15 Waste Minimization and Water Reuse 791

16 Allocation of Superfund Disposal Site Response Costs 825

17 Industrial Pretreatment 847

18 Environmental Economics 875

Index 921

Book review: Economic Sociology or Developments in West European Politics 2

Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660

Author: Nigel Smith

The years of the Civil War and Interregnum have usually been marginalised as a literary period. This wide-ranging and highly original study demonstrates that these central years of the seventeenth century were a turning point, not only in the political, social and religious history of the nation, but also in the use and meaning of language and literature. At a time of crisis and constitutional turmoil, literature itself acquired new functions and played a dynamic part in the fragmentation of religious and political authority. For English people, Smith argues, the upheaval in divine and secular authority provided both motive and opportunity for transformations in the nature and meaning of literary expression. The increase in pamphleteering and journalism brought a new awareness of print; with it existing ideas of authorship and authority collapsed. Through literature, people revised their understanding of themselves and attempted to transform their predicament. Smith examines literary output ranging from the obvious masterworks of the age - Milton's Paradise Lost, Hobbes's Leviathan, Marvell's poetry - to a host of less well-known writings. He examines the contents of manuscripts and newsbooks sold on the streets, published drama, epics and romances, love poetry, praise poetry, psalms and hymns, satire in prose and verse, fishing manuals, histories. He analyses the cant and babble of religious polemic and the language of political controversy, demonstrating how, as literary genres changed and disintegrated, they often acquired vital new life. Ranging further than any other work on this period, and with a narrative rich in allusion, the book explores the impact of politics on the practice of writing and the role of literature in the process of historical change.



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