Sustainable Environmental Engineering
Walter Z. Tang, Florida International University;
Mika Sillanpää, Lappeenranta University of Technology
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018
ISBN: 978-1-119-08558-4;
Language: English
Sustainable environmental engineering (SEE) is the practice of researching, designing, and building an environmental engineering infrastructure system in harmony with nature, to protect human health and environments at minimal cost. SEE relies on life cycle cost analysis, benefit analysis, and assessment. The foundations of SEE are the twelve design principles that are used to transform how environmental engineering is taught. It prioritizes six design hierarchies through six dimensions. These design hierarchies are prevention, recovery, separation, treatment, remediation, and optimization. The dimensions are integrated systems, material economy, reliability on spatial scale, resiliency on temporal scale, and cost effectiveness.
Sustainable Environmental Engineering presents how environmental engineering issues such as climate change can be identified and prioritized through quantification of air, water, and soil quality indexes. Water pollution control is examined through technologies that are critical in the shift from conventional environmental engineering design to water resource recovery facilities.
The text covers technology to address SEE design problems:
• Statistical analysis of engineering design parameters using the IBM SPSS statistical software
• Monte Carlo simulation using Oracle Crystal Ball to quantify uncertainty and sensitivity of design parameters
• Design methods of new energy, materials, processes, products, and systems to achieve energy positive water resource recovery facilities, illustrated with MATLAB
• Information on life cycle costs in terms of capital and operation for different processes using MATLAB
Written for senior or graduates in environmental or chemical engineering, Sustainable Environmental Engineering defines and illustrates the twelve design principles of SEE. The exercise at the end of each chapter encourages students to identify environmental engineering infrastucture problems in their own cities and find creative solutions.
