Wastewater Engineering: Treatment, Disposal, and Reuse [IMPORT] (Hardcover)

by George; Burton, Franklin L. Tchobanoglous (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 928 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College; 3Rev Ed edition (1990)
• ISBN-10: 0070416907
• ISBN-13: 978-0070416901
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #865,709 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The bible and encyclopaedia of wastewater engineering, September 9, 1999

By	Mohammad Ahsan Siddique ([e-mail]) "... (Greeley, Colorado) - See all my reviews

I first got exposed to the textbook as an undergraduate student in civil engineering. Served as an excellent in depth textbook for that level. During my masters program it was a good starting point. As a consulting engineer, I can find most of the basic and fundamental answers. The language is lucid and simple. I have read lots of books on wastewater engineering. Agreed that there are more detailed texts available on specific areas of wastewater treatment, but this textbook does a very good job of striking that balance just right of covering material in enough detail for students and the practising engineer. It is usually enough unless you are writing a masters thesis or a doctoral dissertation. This text, together with the companion textbook, Collection and Pumping of Wastewater has served me very well during my college and professional career. Highly recommended to anyone looking for a good book on wastewater treatment. I very respectfully disagree with the gentleman from Istanbul above who feels that this book is poor. When taking my PE exam, if I was to be limited to just one textbook on wastewater, I would take this one.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars fourth edition overdue!, April 9, 2000

By	Paul van Poppelen (Canada) - See all my reviews

there is a bit of truth in all the above reviews. It has not entirely been my bible, but more a Readers Digest version; if I need a quick answer, it is the first book I grab. Yes there are a lot of mathematical mistakes or misprints in it,and that includes a good number of the worked examples, which rather defeats the purpose. Yes it is very American orientated, but it also has tables and footnotes throughout, giving useful or immediate conversions to other systems, well, metric that is, not imperial. There are a lot nicer processes about, some definitely European. But that misses the point a bit: the most fundamental problem is that the book is nearly ten years old. Therefore it is not surprising that newer processes are missing. I am desperately looking forward to a fourth edition, and I'll be the first to buy it! In the meantime I'll keep using the third. But what happened to the (Indian) paperback version, which was a lot better priced for a book of this age? Still, there is no substitute!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Review from a process engineer, March 1, 2000

By	Eric van Sonsbeek (Netherlands) - See all my reviews

The book gives the modern process engineer enough background to engineer complete waste water treatment plants. Specially the biological part is very good. Only at the physical chemical part, the information is based on installations produced in the US. The European (nicer) designes and developments are not described in the book.