Wet Scrubbers, Second Edition [Paperback]

Howard D. Hesketh (Author), Kenneth C. Schifftner (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 206 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 2 edition (February 20, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566763797
• ISBN-13: 978-1566763790
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,010,575 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

My career began as a "go-for" guy and blue print machine operator as a summer job in 1966. Though I wanted to be an aeronautical engineer, the employer was an air pollution control equipment manudacturer. I liked it. In 1970, I received a a BS degree in Mehanical Engineering from Newark College of Engineering. Besides the books mentioned, I've written over fifty technical papers and articles and consider among my colleagues some of the leading professionals in the industry who strive to keep our air clean. These publications are my way of sharing what was learned during the last nearly four decades of air pollution equipment design.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read for air pollution control practitioners., March 22, 1999

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This review is from: Wet Scrubbers, Second Edition (Paperback)

The NST/Engineers, Inc. reviewers found that the authors, Kenneth Schifftner, Product/District Manager for Bionomics Industries, and Howard Hesketh, Professor of Engineering (Retired), Air Pollution Control, at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, have provided a most useful resource to the pollution control community. Mr. Schifftner is the patentee of a scrubber with unusual capabilities, the Catenary Grid ®, also described in the book. The reviewers, having successfully applied that scrubber design to a high solids-loading, toxic, plant exhaust stream in one case, and to a toxic plant exhaust stream, in an urban setting near a school, can attest to the soundness of the application principles described in the book.

The authors have demonstrated again in this second edition the practical value of their more than fifty-year experience in wet scrubber research, development, and plant installations. They cover every important type of wet scrubber for industrial and municipal applications. Practical considerations are highlighted throughout. As an example, they describe twenty-three considerations for successful gas absorption in liquid streams. Provision of design methods, reference data, and typical calculations lead users to the proper choices for scrubbing equipment and the auxiliary systems for the wide range of gaseous, misty, and particulate-loaded conditions that all pollution control practitioners face.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding, December 31, 2002

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janimal "evil7anonymousreviewer" (Silicon Valley) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wet Scrubbers (Environment & Energy Handbook) (Hardcover)

I worked for a year designing/specifying/sizing wet scrubbers, and this book was open on my desk the whole time. It's fantastic.

5.0 out of 5 stars Wet Scrubbers, September 19, 2011

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This review is from: Wet Scrubbers, Second Edition (Paperback)

The book "Wet Scrubbers", takes you through all the how, why and when's and answers all questions from the basic to the detailed. Great book for reference for the engineer, trainer, and or process operator.