Design of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants: WEF Manual of Practice No. 8 ASCE Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice No. 76, Fifth Edition PDF

A thoroughly updated principal reference of contemporary practice for municipal wastewater treatment plant design. This three-volume companion text to Operation of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants, Sixth Edition presents the current plant design practices of wastewater engineering professionals, augmented by performance information from operating facilities. This work includes design approaches that reflect the experience of more than 200 authors and reviewers from around the world. Design of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants, Fifth Edition covers current processes and concepts. These include sustainability; process modeling; energy management; odor control and air emissions; chemically assisted ballast flocculation clarification; membrane bioreactors; integrated fixed-film activated sludge processes; enhanced nutrient control systems; sidestream treatment; and approaches to minimizing biosolids production.