Drinking Water Treatment Book by Chittaranjan Ray
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Drinking Water Treatment

Drinking Water Treatment


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1. INTRODUCTION - Chittaranjan Ray and Ravi Jain

1.1 Nature and Extent of the Problem

1.2 Water Contaminants

1.3 Topics Covered

2. DRINKING WATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY-COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS - Chittaranjan Ray and Ravi Jain

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Natural Filtration

2.3 Riverbank Filtration

2.4 Slow Sand Filtration

2.5 Membrane Filtration

2.6 Solar Distillation

2.7 Solar Pasteurization

2.8 Technology Development Challenges

2.9 Technological Implementation-Case Studies

3. SOLAR PASTEURIZATION - Ed Pejack

3.1 Microbiology of Water Pasteurization

3.2 Use of Solar Cookers for Drinking Water Production

3.3 Devices Designed Specifically for Water

3.4 Simple devices from common materials

3.5 Commercial Devices in Production

3.6 Devices with Recovery Heat Exchange

3.7 Water Pasteurization Indicators

3.8 Multi-Use Systems

3.9 Summary

4. MEMBRANE DESALINATION - Kishore Rajagopalan

4.1 Desalination Technologies

4.2 Thermal Desalination Technologies

4.3 Membrane Processes

4.4 Emerging Membrane Technologies

4.5 Global Growth of Membrane Desalination

4.6 Desalination Environment Interactions

4.7 Mitigation of Environmental Impacts

4.8 Membrane-Based Desalination at the Small and Medium Scale

4.9 Integrated Approaches

4.10 Conclusions

4.11 References

5. BANK FILTRATION AS NATURAL FILTRATION - Chittaranjan Ray, Jay Jasperse, and Thomas Grischek

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Natural Filtration's Implications for Sustainability

5.3 How Does It Work?

5.4 Regulatory Perspective

5.5 Key Planning Considerations

5.6 Site Characterization

5.7 Design Considerations

5.8 Operational Considerations

5.9 How Well Does It Work?

5.10 Performance Assessment of RBF Systems

5.11 Areas of Future Study and Technology Development

5.12 Implementation, Challenges, Strategies

6. SOLAR DISTILLATION - Rahul Dev and G.N. Tiwari

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Water characterization

6.3 Solar Distillation: Basic Principle

6.4 Historical Background: Evaluation Process of Solar Stills

6.5 Broad Classification of Solar Still

6.6 Various Methods of Fixing the Glass Cover onto the Solar Still Walls

6.7 Heat Transfer and Thermal Modeling

6.8 Thermal Analysis: Development of Energy Balance Equations

6.10 Comparison of distillate yield for different active solar stills

6.11 Effect of Various Parameters

6.12 Cost, Energy and Exergy Issues Related to Water Production Through Solar Stills

6.13 CO2 Emission, CO2 Mitigation and Carbon Credit Earned

6.14 Technology Transfer

6.15 Challenges in Adoption

7. TRANSDISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS - Ravi Jain

7.1 Sustainability Concepts and Differing Views

7.2 Industrial Practices: Suggested Options

7.3 Sustainability of Technology in Developing Countries

7.4 Sustainability Framework

7.5 Technology Transfer and Implementation

1.1 Nature and Extent of the Problem

1.2 Water Contaminants

1.3 Topics Covered

2. DRINKING WATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY-COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS - Chittaranjan Ray and Ravi Jain

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Natural Filtration

2.3 Riverbank Filtration

2.4 Slow Sand Filtration

2.5 Membrane Filtration

2.6 Solar Distillation

2.7 Solar Pasteurization

2.8 Technology Development Challenges

2.9 Technological Implementation-Case Studies

3. SOLAR PASTEURIZATION - Ed Pejack

3.1 Microbiology of Water Pasteurization

3.2 Use of Solar Cookers for Drin
About the Author:

Chittaranjan Ray is Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Interim Director of the Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. Prior to joining the University of Hawaii, he worked as a research scientist at the Illinois State Water Survey at the University of Illinois. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Texas Tech University. He was also employed as a staff engineer in the firm of Geraghty & Miller, Inc. in Hackensack, New Jersey (USA) conducting hazardous waste site investigation and water supply development for communities. He is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He has published 5 books, over 100 scholarly papers, and many technical papers. His research work has been funded by the US National Science Foundation, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Defense, and other agencies.

Ravi K. Jain is Dean, School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of the Pacific. Prior to this appointment, he has held research, faculty, and administrative positions at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Cincinnati. He received degrees in civil engineering (BS, MSCE) from California State University. He holds a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University. He has directed major research programs for the US department of Defense and has served as chairman of the Environmental Engineering Research Council, ASCE. He is a member of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, a fellow of ASCE, and a fellow of AAAS. He has been a Littauer fellow at Harvard University and a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University. He has published 14 books, over 150 scholarly papers and technical reports, and has received many awards and honors including the US Army's highest research award and was a recipient of the NSPE Founders Gold Medal and named Federal Engineering of the Year for 1989.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789400711037
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 621 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9400711034
  • Publisher Date: 17 Jun 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Series Title: Strategies for Sustainability
  • Sub Title: Focusing on Appropriate Technology and Sustainability
  • Width: 160 mm


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