Chemistry for Environmental Engineering and Science (The McGraw-Hill Series in Civil and Environmental Engineering) - Hardcover

Clair Sawyer; Perry McCarty; Gene Parkin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071198881 ISBN 13: 9780071198882

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2002

Synopsis

This is the definitive text in a market consisting of senior and graduate environmental engineering students who are taking a chemistry course. The text is divided into a chemistry fundamentals section and an applications section.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Retains the two-fold approach.
Retain the thorough, yet concise coverage of basic chemical principles from general, physical, equilibrium, organic, bio, colloid and nuclear chemistry.
Revised and additional new problems.
Thoroughly updated all content to coincide with current environmental engineering practice.

About the Author:

The late Clair N. Sawyer was active in the field of Sanitary Chemistry for over 30 years. He was received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. As Professor of Sanitary Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he taught and directed research until 1958. He then was appointed Vice President and Director of Research at Metcalf and Eddy, Inc., and served as a consultant on numerous water and waste-water treatment projects in the United States and many foreign countries. After retiring, he served as an environmental consultant for several years. He passed away in 1992. He was the originator and sole author of the first edition, which published in 1960.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0071198881
• ISBN 13: 9780071198882
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 650