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Integrated Solid Waste Management: Engineering Principles and Management Issues

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The book covers almost all aspects of solid waste management with excellent presentation: regulations, waste characteristics, collection and transfer, landfill, recycling and recovery, thermal destruction, and chemical and biological transformations. Although it does not discuss all the design details of the disposal alternatives, it is one of the most comprehensive coverage in solid waste management. Strongly recommended.

The other students in class had a copy from this millenium, the one I got from an independent seller using Amazon was 33 years old! Its a good textbook, I looked at others from the last few years. Photos of the equipment were helpful to understand how disk screen, eddy current separators, etc would work.

Huge sections of MSW engineering did not even exist when the 1970's textbook was published, so be cautious of which edition you are being offered. I am still waiting to see if the seller is willing to return my money.

The book I received was in poor shape. It was clearly water damaged with a warped cover and was in poor to fair shape overall.

If you are a solid waste or recycling professional, this book is an excellent resource on all aspects of solid waste management. Highly recommended.

INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

Engineering Principles and Management Issues

Authors;

GEORGE TCHOBANOGLOUS

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of California, Davis

George Tchobanoglous is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California at Davis.

He received a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of the Pacific, and M.S. in sanitary engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from Stanford University.

His principal research interests are in the areas of solid waste menagement, wastewater treatment, wastewater filtration, aquatic systems for wastewater treatment, and individual on-site treatment systems.

He has authored or coauthored over 200 technical publications and 10 textbooks.

He is the principal author of the predecessor of this textbook. Unless otherwise noted, all of the photographs in this textbook were taken, developed, and printed by him.

Professor Techobanoglous serves nationally and internationally as a consultant to both governmental agencies and private concerns. An active member of numerous professional societies, he is past president of the Association of Environmental Engineering Professors.

He has served as a member of the California Waste Management Board.

He is a registered civil engineer in California and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers.

HILARY THEISEN

Vice President

Brown & Caldwell, Consulting Engineers

Hilary Theisen is Vice President and Director of the solid waste and resource recovery program at Brown and Caldwell Consultants.

He received a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from the University of Santa Clara.

His broad solid waste management experience started as a consultant in 1966.

In the mid 1970s he directed solid waste operations in Sacramento County, CAlifornia, which provided collection, transfer, recycling, and disposal services in a community of 380,000 people.

At Brown and Caldwell Consultants, he oversees the production of studies, designs, and reports for public agencies and private industry.

He has provided consulting services throughout the United States, Argentina, Taiwain, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.

He has authored numerous papers and articles on solid waste management and is the coauthor of the predecessor of this textbook, Solid Waste: Engineering Principles and Management Issues.

He is a registered professional engineer in California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington.

SAMUEL VIGIL

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

California Polytechnic State University

San Luis Obispo, California

Samuel Vigil is a professor of civil and engironmental engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

He received a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and M.S. in environmental engineering from Texas A&M University, and a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of California at Davis.

His principal research interests are in the areas of gasification of solid wastes, recycling technoloties, computer modeling of integrated waste management systems, and computer-aided engineering.

He has authored or coauthored 26 publications and holds a U.S. Patent in energy conversion.

Professor Vigil is active as a consultant to state and local governments and has also consulted internationally in Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.

He is active in the Solid Waste Processing Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Air and Waste Management Association, and the American Public Works Association.

A Navy veteran, Professor Vigil is a Commander in the Naval Reserve Civil Engineer Corps.

He is a registered civil engineer in California and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers.

The book is 978 pages with subject index.

Hardback.

This book was set in Times Roman by Publication Services.

The editors were B. J. Clark and John M. Morriss;

the production supervisor was Friederich W. Schulte.

The cover was designed by Nicholas Krenitsky.

R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company was printer and binder.

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

Copyright 1993 by McGraw-Hill, Inc.

ISBN 0 07 063237 5.

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