Niques used in the field of chemical engineering as well as biological, petro-leum, and environmental engineering. Although the range of subjects deemed to be in the province of chemical engineering has broadened over the last twenty years, the basic principles of this field of study remain the same. Principles places more emphasis on scientific principles, ethics, and safety, and focuses less on engineering design. The text exposes students to a broad range of environmental topics?including risk management, water quality an treatment, air pollution, hazardous waste, solid waste, and ionizing radiation as well as discussion of relevant regulations and practices. The book also uses mass and energy balance as a tool for understanding environmental processes and solving environmental.
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Principles of Environmental Physics: Plants, Animals, and the Atmosphere, 4e, provides a basis for understanding the complex physical interactions of plants and animals with their natural environment. It is the essential reference to provide environmental and ecological scientists and researchers with the physical principles, analytic tools, and data analysis methods they need to solve problems. This book describes the principles by which radiative energy reaches the earth’s surface and reviews the latest knowledge concerning the surface radiation budget. The processes of radiation, convection, conduction, evaporation, and carbon dioxide exchange are analyzed. Many applications of environmental physics principles are reviewed, including the roles of surface albedo and atmospheric aerosols in modifying microclimate and climate, remote sensing of vegetation properties, wind forces on trees and crops, dispersion of pathogens and aerosols, controls of evaporation from vegetation and soil (including implications of changing weather and climate), and interpretation of micrometeorological measurements of carbon dioxide and other trace gas fluxes.
Presents a unique synthesis of micrometeorology and ecology in its widest sense
Deals quantitatively with the impact of weather on living systems but also with the interactions between organisms and the atmosphere that are a central feature of life on earth
Offers numerous worked examples and problems with solutions
Provides many examples of laboratory and field measurements and their interpretation
Includes an up-to-date bibliography and review of recent micrometeorological applications in forestry, ecology, hydrology, and agriculture
Readership
Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in university departments of physics, atmospheric sciences, biological and environmental sciences, research scientists in agriculture, forestry, hydrology and ecology in academia, government research and industry, natural resource managers, environmental consultants and advisers in non-governmental organizations.
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgments
Symbols
Roman Alphabet
Greek Alphabet
Non-Dimensional Groups
Logarithms
Chapter 1. The Scope of Environmental Physics
Chapter 2. Properties of Gases and Liquids
2.1 Gases and Water Vapor
2.2 Liquid
2.3 Stable Isotopes
2.4 Problems
References
Chapter 3. Transport of Heat, Mass, and Momentum
3.1 General Transfer Equation
3.2 Molecular Transfer Processes
3.3 Diffusion Coefficients
3.4 Diffusion of Particles (Brownian Motion)
3.5 Problems
References
Chapter 4. Transport of Radiant Energy
4.1 The Origin and Nature of Radiation
4.2 Spatial Relations
4.3 Problems
References
Chapter 5. Radiation Environment
5.1 Solar Radiation
5.2 Attenuation of Solar Radiation in the Atmosphere
5.3 Solar Radiation at the Ground
5.4 Terrestrial Radiation
5.5 Net Radiation
5.6 Problems
References
Chapter 6. Microclimatology of Radiation: (i) Radiative Properties of Natural Materials
6.1 Radiative Properties of Natural Materials
6.2 Problems
References
Chapter 7. Microclimatology of Radiation: (ii) Radiation Interception by Solid Structures
7.1 Geometric Principles
7.2 Problems
References
Chapter 8. Microclimatology of Radiation: (iii) Interception by Plant Canopies and Animal Coats
8.1 Interception of Radiation by Plant Canopies
8.2 Interception of Radiation by Animal Coats
8.3 Net Radiation
8.4 Problems
References
Chapter 9. Momentum Transfer
9.1 Boundary Layers
9.2 Momentum Transfer to Natural Surfaces
9.3 Lodging and Windthrow
9.4 Problems
References
Chapter 10. Heat Transfer
10.1 Convection
10.2 Measurements of Convection
10.3 Conduction
10.4 Insulation
10.5 Problems
References
Chapter 11. Mass Transfer: (i) Gases and Water Vapor
11.1 Non-Dimensional Groups
11.2 Measurements of Mass Transfer
11.3 Ventilation
11.4 Mass Transfer Through Pores
11.5 Mass Transfer through Coats and Clothing
11.6 Problems
References
Chapter 12. Mass Transfer: (ii) Particles
12.1 Steady Motion
12.2 Non-Steady Motion
12.3 Particle Deposition and Transport
12.4 Problems
References
Chapter 13. Steady-State Heat Balance: (i) Water Surfaces, Soil, and Vegetation
13.1 Heat Balance Equation
13.2 Heat Balance of Thermometers
13.3 Heat Balance of Surfaces
13.4 Developments From the Penman and Penman-Monteith Equations
13.5 Problems
References
Chapter 14. Steady-State Heat Balance: (ii) Animals
14.1 Heat Balance Components
14.2 The Thermo-Neutral Diagram
14.3 Specification of the Environment—The Effective Temperature
14.4 Case Studies
14.5 Problems
References
Chapter 15. Transient Heat Balance
15.1 Time Constant
15.2 General Cases
15.3 Heat Flow in Soil
15.4 Problems
References
Chapter 16. Micrometeorology: (i) Turbulent Transfer, Profiles, and Fluxes
16.1 Turbulent Transfer
16.2 Flux-Gradient Methods
16.3 Methods for Indirect Measurements of Flux Above Canopies
16.4 Relative Merits of Methods of Flux Measurement
16.5 Turbulent Transfer in Canopies
16.6 Density Corrections to Flux Measurements
16.7 Problems
References
Chapter 17. Micrometeorology: (ii) Interpretation of Flux Measurements
17.1 Resistance Analogs
17.2 Case Studies
17.3 Measurement and Modeling of Transport within Canopies
17.4 Problems
References
References
Bibliography
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'This compact overview of environmental physics…serves as an excellent introduction to the subject. Its pioneering approach to the application of physics to the study and analysis of biological processes is still unsurpassed...The range of subjects covered is wide…and the new edition reorganizes and updates core material and improves on presentation...Rigorous but accessible, this is a wonderful text, and contains an extensive bibliography and a list of references.'--ProtoView.com, January 2014
Principles of Environmental Physics: Plants, Animals, and the Atmosphere, 4e, provides a basis for understanding the complex physical interactions of plants and animals with their natural environment. It is the essential reference to provide environmental and ecological scientists and researchers with the physical principles, analytic tools, and data analysis methods they need to solve problems. This book describes the principles by which radiative energy reaches the earth’s surface and reviews the latest knowledge concerning the surface radiation budget. The processes of radiation, convection, conduction, evaporation, and carbon dioxide exchange are analyzed. Many applications of environmental physics principles are reviewed, including the roles of surface albedo and atmospheric aerosols in modifying microclimate and climate, remote sensing of vegetation properties, wind forces on trees and crops, dispersion of pathogens and aerosols, controls of evaporation from vegetation and soil (including implications of changing weather and climate), and interpretation of micrometeorological measurements of carbon dioxide and other trace gas fluxes.'>
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Environmental engineering is a professional engineering discipline that takes from broad scientific topics like chemistry, biology, ecology, geology, hydraulics, hydrology, microbiology, and mathematics to create solutions that will protect and also improves the health of living organisms and improve the quality of the environment.[1][2] Environmental engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering and chemical engineering.
Environmental engineering is the application of scientific and engineering principles to improve and maintain the environment to:
protect human health,
protect nature's beneficial ecosystems,
and improve environmental-related enhancement of the quality of human life.[1]
Environmental engineers devise solutions for waste water management, water and air pollution control, recycling, waste disposal, and public health.[2][3] They design municipal water supply and industrial wastewater treatment systems,[4][5] and design plans to prevent waterborne diseases and improve sanitation in urban, rural and recreational areas. They evaluate hazardous-waste management systems to evaluate the severity of such hazards, advise on treatment and containment, and develop regulations to prevent mishaps. They implement environmental engineering law, as in assessing the environmental impact of proposed construction projects.
Environmental engineers study the effect of technological advances on the environment, addressing local and worldwide environmental issues such as acid rain, global warming, ozone depletion, water pollution and air pollution from automobile exhausts and industrial sources.[2][6][7][8]
Most jurisdictions impose licensing and registration requirements for qualified environmental engineers.[9][10][11]
1History
2Education
3Applications
4Regulatory agencies
5See also
History[edit]
Ancient civilizations[edit]
Environmental engineering is a name for work that has been done since early civilizations, as people learned to modify and control the environmental conditions to meet needs.[3][12] As people recognized that their health was related to the quality of their environment, they built systems to improve it.[3] The ancient Indus Valley Civilization (3300 B.C.E. to 1300 B.C.E.) had advanced control over their water resources.[12] The public work structures found at various sites in the area include wells, public baths,water storage tanks, a drinking water system, and a city-wide sewage collection system.[12][13] They also had an early canal irrigation system enabling large-scale agriculture.[14]
From 4000 to 2000 B.C.E., many civilizations had drainage systems and some had sanitation facilities, including the Mesopotamian Empire, Mohenjo-Daro, Egypt, Crete, and the Orkney Islands in Scotland.[3] The Greeks also had aqueducts and sewer systems that used rain and wastewater to irrigate and fertilize fields.[3]
The first aqueduct in Rome was constructed in 312 B.C.E., and from there, they continued to construct aqueducts for irrigation and safe urban water supply during droughts.[3] They also built an underground sewer system as early as the 7th century B.C.E. that fed into the Tiber River, draining marshes to create farmland as well as removing sewage from the city.[3][12]
Modern era[edit]
Very little change was seen from the fall of Rome until the 19th century, where improvements saw increasing efforts focused on public health.[12][15] Modern environmental engineering began in London in the mid-19th century when Joseph Bazalgette designed the first major sewerage system following the Great Stink.[12] The city's sewer system conveyed raw sewage to the River Thames, which also supplied the majority of the city's drinking water, leading to an outbreak of cholera.[12] The introduction of drinking water treatment and sewage treatment in industrialized countries reduced waterborne diseases from leading causes of death to rarities.[16]
The field emerged as a separate academic discipline during the middle of the 20th century in response to widespread public concern about water and air pollution and other environmental degradation. As society and technology grew more complex, they increasingly produced unintended effects on the natural environment. One example is the widespread application of the pesticide DDT to control agricultural pests in the years following World War II. While the agricultural benefits were outstanding and crop yields increased dramatically, reducing world hunger, and malaria was controlled better than ever before, the pesticide brought numerous bird species to the edge of extinction due to its impact on their reproductive cycle. The story of DDT as vividly told in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) is considered to be the birth of the modern environmental movement,[17] which led to the modern field of 'environmental engineering.'
Education[edit]
Many universities offer environmental engineering programs through either the department of civil engineering or chemical engineering and also including electronic projects to develop and balance the environmental conditions. Environmental engineers in a civil engineering program often focus on hydrology, water resources management, bioremediation, and water and wastewater treatment plant design. Environmental engineers in a chemical engineering program tend to focus on environmental chemistry, advanced air and water treatment technologies, and separation processes.[citation needed] Some subdivisions of environmental engineering include natural resources engineering and agricultural engineering.
Courses for students fall into a few broad classes:
Mechanical engineering courses oriented towards designing machines and mechanical systems for environmental use such as water and wastewater treatment facilities, pumping stations, garbage segregation plants, and other mechanical facilities.
Environmental engineering or environmental systems courses oriented towards a civil engineering approach in which structures and the landscape are constructed to blend with or protect the environment.
Environmental chemistry, sustainable chemistry or environmental chemical engineering courses oriented towards understanding the effects of chemicals in the environment, including any mining processes, pollutants, and also biochemical processes.
Environmental technology courses oriented towards producing electronic or electrical graduates capable of developing devices and artifacts able to monitor, measure, model and control environmental impact, including monitoring and managing energy generation from renewable sources.
Curriculum[edit]
The following topics make up a typical curriculum in environmental engineering:[18]
Mass and Energy transfer
Environmental chemistry
Growth models
Risk assessment
Dose-response Assessment
Risk characterization
Comparative risk analysis
Water pollution
Water resources and pollutants
Pollutant transport
Water and waste water treatment
Air pollution
Industry, transportation, commercial and residential emissions
Oceanic changes (ocean acidification, other effects of global warming on oceans) and changes in the stratosphere (see Physical impacts of climate change)
Solid waste management and resource recovery
Collection and transfer operations
Waste-to-energy conversion
Applications[edit]
Water supply and treatment[edit]
Environmental engineers evaluate the water balance within a watershed and determine the available water supply, the water needed for various needs in that watershed, the seasonal cycles of water movement through the watershed and they develop systems to store, treat, and convey water for various uses.
Water is treated to achieve water quality objectives for the end uses. In the case of a potable water supply, water is treated to minimize the risk of infectious disease transmission, the risk of non-infectious illness, and to create a palatable water flavor. Water distribution systems are designed and built to provide adequate water pressure and flow rates to meet various end-user needs such as domestic use, fire suppression, and irrigation.
Wastewater treatment[edit]
Sewage treatment plant, Australia
There are numerous wastewater treatment technologies. A wastewater treatment train can consist of a primary clarifier system to remove solid and floating materials, a secondary treatment system consisting of an aeration basin followed by flocculation and sedimentation or an activated sludge system and a secondary clarifier, a tertiary biological nitrogen removal system, and a final disinfection process. The aeration basin/activated sludge system removes organic material by growing bacteria (activated sludge). The secondary clarifier removes the activated sludge from the water. The tertiary system, although not always included due to costs, is becoming more prevalent to remove nitrogen and phosphorus and to disinfect the water before discharge to a surface water stream or ocean outfall.[19]
Air pollution management[edit]
Scientists have developed air pollution dispersion models to evaluate the concentration of a pollutant at a receptor or the impact on overall air quality from vehicle exhausts and industrial flue gas stack emissions. To some extent, this field overlaps the desire to decrease carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from combustion processes.
Environmental impact assessment and mitigation[edit]
Water pollution
Environmental engineers apply scientific and engineering principles to evaluate if there are likely to be any adverse impacts to water quality, air quality, habitat quality, flora and fauna, agricultural capacity, traffic, ecology, and noise. If impacts are expected, they then develop mitigation measures to limit or prevent such impacts. An example of a mitigation measure would be the creation of wetlands in a nearby location to mitigate the filling in of wetlands necessary for a road development if it is not possible to reroute the road.
In the United States, the practice of environmental assessment was formally initiated on January 1, 1970, the effective date of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Since that time, more than 100 developing and developed nations either have planned specific analogous laws or have adopted procedure used elsewhere. NEPA is applicable to all federal agencies in the United States.[20]
Regulatory agencies[edit]
Environmental Protection Agency[edit]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is one of the many agencies that work with environmental engineers to solve key issues. An important component of EPA's mission is to protect and improve air, water, and overall environmental quality in order to avoid or mitigate the consequences of harmful effects.
See also[edit]
At Wikiversity, you can learn more and teach others about Environmental engineering at the Department of Environmental engineering
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