Bøker av Frank R. Spellman

Environmental Science: Principles and Practices provides the scientific principles, concepts, applications, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world, identify and analyze environmental problems both natural and manmade, evaluate the relative risks associated with these problems, and examine alternative solutions (such as renewable energy sources) for resolving and even preventing them. Frank R. Spellman and Melissa Stoudt introduce the science of the environmental mediums of air, water, soil, and biota to undergraduate students.Interdisciplinary by nature, environmental science embraces a wide array of topics. Environmental Science: Principles and Practices brings these topics together under several major themes, includingHow energy conversions underlie all ecological processesHow the earth's environment functions as an integrated systemHow human activities alter natural systemsHow the role of culture, social, and economic factors is vital to the development of solutionsHow human survival depends on practical ideas of stewardship and sustainabilityEnvironmental Science: Principles and Practices is an ideal resource for students of science in the classroom and at home, in the library and the lab.

Addresses the self-purifying function of streams and rivers in light of EPA rules on nonpoint pollutants and total maximum daily loads. This book covers basic concepts such as biological oxygen demand and contains an extended discussion of how streams originate and how they fit into the geomorphology of the earth and other water supply sources.

Presents information on pump fundamentals and applications, and introduces preventive maintenance and troubleshooting for hydraulic pumps. This work explains both centrifugal and positive-displacement pumps. It also covers common problem areas and corrective actions, such as how to maintain packing and mechanical seals.

Presents the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) regulatory requirements for making safe and proper confined space entries. This book includes OSHA's Confined Space, Lockout/Tagout, Respiratory Protection Standards and Hot Work Permit requirements.

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) have lowered prices and increased production but with economic, ecological, and environmental costs that can only be solved by enforced legislation. Discussing this agricultural trend, this book offers practical information on the concepts and practices involved in operation and maintenance of CAFOs.

Covers fundamental, intermediate, and advanced wastewater treatment operations in individual volumes. This title offers coverage of emerging contaminants and their associated treatment processes and additional coverage of wastewater reuse/ sustainability.

Explains water hydraulics in the context of treatment plants, presenting hydraulic theory and calculations in terms of the machinery and unit operations familiar to operators. This book covers hydraulics as related to keeping water moving from one unit process to the next, including maintaining proper settling times and settling velocity.

Presents the research on global climate change, air pollution, radon, indoor air quality and acid rain. This work explores common themes of air resource utilization and air protection with a section on air pollution and remediation. It includes a section on the fundamentals of air chemistry and physics.