Environmental Science - Waste Cleanup
The field of environmental engineering typically involves many varied engineering and science disciplines from civil and mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and chemistry to geology, geophysics, and toxicology. As a sub-discipline, hazardous waste site remediation typifies this corss-disciplinary aproach: any given site could easily present the engineer with problems in any one or all of these disciplines. It is imperative that a practicing engineer has the basic skills to confront a site problem and be able to reach an effective solution. Despite the "maturing" of remediation problems in the U.S. over the past decade, during which the creation of new Superfund sites has virtually stopped remediation of existing sites is still a problem here and the market will continue to grow overseas as more countries begin to face up to their hazardous waste dumping problems.Graduating environmental engineers need a firm grasp of the basics of hazardous waste site remediation. Fundamentals of Hazardous Waste Site Remediation will be the first true next book available to professors teaching the subject of site remediations, either as a stand-alone course or as part of a broader waste management course in an advanced undergraduate or graduate program in environmental engineering. Packed with end-of-chapter review problems and accompanied by a solutions manual, Fundamentals of Hazardous Waste Site Remediation will let professors teach the true fundamentals of the subject, and provide students with enough basics in hazardous materials chemistry, hydrogeology, reaction engineering and clean-up level development to allow them to think on their feet when confronting site remediation problems.