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PREFACE

This book is designed for use by professionals. The book covers the design of municipal water
and wastewater facilities. I have assumed that the reader has had an introductory environ-
mental engineering course and a first course in fluid mechanics. That is, I have assumed the
reader is familiar with notation such as mg/L and acronyms such as BOD as well as the con-
cepts of mass balance, Bernoulli’s equation, and friction loss. Because I could not assume
that the reader has used either Introduction to Environmental Engineering or Principles of
Environmental Engineering and Science, some material from those texts is used to introduce
the subject matter included here.
A Professional Advisory Board has provided their experience and expertise to vet the material
in Water and Wastewater Engineering. The Board is composed of licensed engineers, a licensed
geologist, and licensed treatment plant operators. A short biographical sketch and affiliation of
the Professional Advisory Board members is presented following this preface. They have read
and commented on all of the chapters. In addition, a number of operators have been interviewed
to obtain hints on methods for improving designs.
The book format is one that I used successfully over the 20 years that I taught the material.
The book starts with an overview of the design and construction process including the application
of the code of ethics in the process. The first half of the book addresses water treatment. Because
my course was built around a term design project, the subject matter follows the flow of water
through the unit processes of coagulation, flocculation, softening (including NF and RO), sedi-
mentation, filtration (including MF and UF), disinfection, and residuals management.
The topics of wastewater treatment follow a similar pattern of following the flow through a
plant, that is, preliminary treatment, primary treatment, secondary treatment, tertiary treatment,
and residuals management. Special attention is given to the application of membranes.
Each subject in each chapter is introduced with a discussion of the theoretical principles that
are to be applied in the design of the unit process. In addition, in each chapter, appropriate design
criteria from the Great Lakes–Upper Mississippi River Board of State and Provincial Public
Health and Environmental Managers (known to the elders of the profession as the Ten State Stan-
dards) as well as alternative approaches from the literature are addressed.
The text features over 100 example problems, 500 end-of-chapter problems, and 300 illustra-
tions. A highlight of the book is the inclusion of safety issues in the design requirements as well
as operation and maintenance activities. Hints from the field bring real-life experience in solving
technical issues.
For those using this book for a formal university level course, an instructor’s manual is avail-
able online for qualified instructors. Please inquire with your McGraw-Hill representative for the
necessary access password. The instructor’s manual includes sample course outlines for both a one-
semester option and a two-semester option, solved example exams, and detailed solutions to the
end-of-chapter problems. In addition, there are suggestions for using the pedagogic aids in the text.
McGraw-Hill hosts a website at http://www.mhprofessional.com/wwe . It includes over 500
annotated photos of equipment and the construction process as well as a primer on engineering
economics, and seminar presentations by professional engineers and operators.

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