Environmental Engineering

Our collection of 89 books.

Indoor Environmental Quality

Edited by Muhammad Abdul Mujeebu
ISBN 978-1-78985-252-3, Print ISBN 978-1-78985-251-6,
Edited Volume
136 pages, February, 2019

This book deals with indoor environmental quality (IEQ), which encompasses diverse factors that affect human life inside a building. These factors include indoor air quality (IAQ), lighting, acoustics, drinking water, ergonomics, electromagnetic radi ...
Low Carbon Transition - Technical, Economic and Policy Assessment

Edited by Valter Silva, Matthew Hall and Inês Azevedo
ISBN 978-1-78923-970-6, Print ISBN 978-1-78923-969-0,
Edited Volume
158 pages, October, 2018

Most leaders of developed nations recognize the importance of following policies and strategies to achieve a low-carbon economy based on new and innovative technologies that are able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create new employment and gr ...
Principles and Applications in Nuclear Engineering - Radiation Effects, Thermal Hydraulics, Radionuclide Migration in the Environment

Edited by Rehab O. Abdel Rahman and Hosam El-Din M. Saleh
ISBN 978-1-78923-617-0, Print ISBN 978-1-78923-616-3,
Edited Volume
172 pages, September, 2018

Nuclear engineering could be viewed as the engineering field that ensures optimum and sustainable technological applications of natural and induced radioactive materials in different industrial sectors. This book presents some advanced applications i ...
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration

Edited by Ramesh K. Agarwal
ISBN 978-1-78923-765-8, Print ISBN 978-1-78923-764-1,
Edited Volume
196 pages, September, 2018

This book is divided in two sections. Several chapters in the first section provide a state-of-the-art review of various carbon sinks for CO2 sequestration such as soil and oceans. Other chapters discuss the carbon sequestration achieved by storage i ...
Achievements and Challenges of Integrated River Basin Management

Edited by Dejan Komatina
ISBN 978-1-78923-483-1, Print ISBN 978-1-78923-482-4,
Edited Volume
252 pages, July, 2018

Integrated river basin management is an approach focusing on the development and management of land and water resources in a coordinated manner with the primary aim to ensure society development, which is well balanced from the environmental, economi ...
Sewage

Edited by Ivan X. Zhu
ISBN 978-1-78923-477-0, Print ISBN 978-1-78923-476-3,
Edited Volume
124 pages, July, 2018

Wastewater treatment and sludge disposal are important for protecting receiving rivers, lakes, and other water bodies, and vital for human health. Since excessive discharge may cause eutrophication and deterioration of aquatic systems, the US EPA and ...
Biosorption

Edited by Jan Derco and Branislav Vrana
ISBN 978-1-78923-473-2, Print ISBN 978-1-78923-472-5,
Edited Volume
158 pages, July, 2018

Municipal and industrial wastewaters contain a wide spectrum of pollutants. Their effective removal presents a challenge for water treatment technology. Biosorption of nutrients and pollutants has been used in sewage treatment since the discovery of ...
Heavy Metals

Edited by Hosam El-Din M. Saleh and Refaat F. Aglan
ISBN 978-1-78923-361-2, Print ISBN 978-1-78923-360-5,
Edited Volume
412 pages, June, 2018

Fundamental societal changes resulted from the necessity of people to get organized in mining, transporting, processing, and circulating the heavy metals and their follow-up products, which in consequence resulted in a differentiation of society into ...

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