Water and wastewater engineering: Design principles and practice

by Mackenzie L. Davis, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE

Water and wastewater engineering is designed for use by professionals.

Water and wastewater engineering covers the design of municipal water and wastewater facilities.

I have assumed that the reader has had an introductory environmental 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 concepts 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.

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), sedimentation, filtration (including MF and UF), disinfection, and residuals management.

The text features over 100 example problems, 500 end-of-chapter problems, and 300 illustrations.

A highlight of the book is the inclusion of safety issues in the design requirements as well as operation and maintenance activities.