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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data
Names: Russell, David L. (David Lloyd), 1943- author.
Title: Practical wastewater treatment / David L.Russell, PE, Lilburn,
Georgia, Global Environmental Operations Inc.
Description: Second edition. | Hoboken, NJ, USA : Wiley, 2019. | Includes
index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018035677 (print) | LCCN 2018036545 (ebook) | ISBN
9781119527053 (Adobe PDF) | ISBN 9781119527121 (ePub) | ISBN 9781119100850
(hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Water treatment plants. | Sewage–Purification.
Classification: LCC TD434 (ebook) | LCC TD434 .R87 2019 (print) | DDC
628.1/683–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018035677
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Dedication
I want to thank several people for their inspiration. A second edition of a book is harder than writing a first edition, and a lot more work to ensure that one has something to say.
The following people provided motivation for this effort:
Elizabeth Ann Eason
Marianne Russell (1942–2007)
My girls: Laura Russell and Jennifer Russell
and
their girls: Edda, Zola and Miriam
Also a special note of thanks to Dr Benito Jose Marinas, Distinguished Professor and current head of the College of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, for recognition.
And finally, Bob Esposito of Wiley for patience with an author.
Acknowledgments
I have been privileged to have known several giants in the environmental field. Many of them have already passed on, but their contribution of time and effort to the field of environmental engineering cannot be overlooked. Standing on the shoulders of these giants has given me a platform to be able to look out at the field and write a series of environmental books on various topics, including this work. I wish to acknowledge their contributions to the field of environmental engineering at this point:
Professor Richard S. Englebrecht, former head of the Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana, for encouragement to follow my dreams.
Dr John Austin (U of I), for assistance at a difficult time in my academic career.
Dr Benjamin Ewing (U of I), for invaluable advice on career selection.
Dr V. T. Chow (U of I), for his body of work on open channel flow and hydrology.
And some really great bosses over the years:
Leon Mattioli and Richard Sobel of Allied Chemical Specialty Chemicals Division, Claymont, DE, and Morristown, NJ.
J. S. Lagarias, and Dr Louis McCabe of Resources Research, Inc. (Division of Hazelton Laboratories, Reston, VA).
Dr Robert Irvine, PhD, rediscoverer of the Sequencing Batch Reactor.
Dr Pieter VanRolleghem, mathematician, engineer, and creator of WEST software.
And some very dear friends and professional associates:
Dr Charles Calmbacher, PhD, CIH
David R. Vaughn, PE
Dr Jeremy Dudley, PEng
Thomas McGowan, PE
Dr Donald Ray, PE
Leroy Staska
Thank you all.
David L. Russell, PE
Lilburn, Georgia
Global Environmental Operations Inc.
Preface
The first edition of
