Sewage Treatment Techniques: 6 Classic Books for Modern Solutions
Classic Foundations of Wastewater Engineering, Public Health, and Water ProtectionBy Edward John Schneider, Theodore Clifford Phillips, Henry N. Ogden, H. Burdett Cleveland, Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, American Public Health Association. Laboratory Section, American Chemical Society, William Charles Easdale, Harold E. Babbitt, H. Alfred Roechling, Alfred Stowell Jones
Length35h 18m
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Sewage Treatment Techniques: 6 Classic Books for Modern Solutions assembles foundational writings on sanitation, water quality, analytical chemistry, and municipal engineering, revealing how sewage treatment emerged as both a technical discipline and a public-health imperative. Across practical manuals, laboratory guidance, and institutional standards, the volume ranges from chemical analysis and process design to the civic consequences of polluted water. Its value lies in preserving the formative arguments, measurements, and operational principles through which modern wastewater practice was shaped. The contributors include engineers, chemists, and public-health specialists, alongside the influential Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, the American Public Health Association's Laboratory Section, and the American Chemical Society. Their collective work belongs to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sanitary reform tradition, when bacteriology, environmental chemistry, and expanding municipal infrastructures transformed responses to urban waste. These varied professional perspectives illuminate the collaboration—and occasional tension—between laboratory standardization, engineering feasibility, and public regulation. This collection is recommended for students of environmental history, civil engineering, public health, and policy, as well as practitioners seeking the intellectual roots of present-day solutions. By bringing six classic texts into conversation, it offers a compact yet capacious record of changing methods, assumptions, and responsibilities. Readers will find both historical instruction and a productive dialogue between technical detail and enduring civic concern.
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GenreTechnology, Literary Classics
Length35 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Comparison of Methods of Sewage Purification
2Comparison of Methods of Sewage Purification.
3Dilution
4Irrigation
5Intermittent Downward Filtration
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6Chemical Precipitation
7Septic Tank
8Contact Bed
9Discussion
10Conclusion
11Natural & Artificial Sewage Treatment
12PREFACE.
13I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
14II. THE SEWAGE QUESTION DURING THE LAST CENTURY.
15III. THE SUBSOIL.
16IV. SELF-PURIFYING POWERS OF SOIL. NATURAL SELF-PURIFICATION OF SEWAGE.
17V. ARTIFICIAL SELF-PURIFICATION OF SEWAGE.
18Sewerage and Sewage Treatment
19PREFACE
20CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
21CHAPTER II WORK PRELIMINARY TO DESIGN
22CHAPTER III QUANTITY OF SEWAGE
23CHAPTER IV THE HYDRAULICS OF SEWERS
24CHAPTER V DESIGN OF SEWERAGE SYSTEMS
25CHAPTER VI APPURTENANCES
26CHAPTER VII PUMPS AND PUMPING STATIONS
27CHAPTER VIII MATERIALS FOR SEWERS
28CHAPTER IX DESIGN OF THE SEWER RING
29CHAPTER X CONTRACTS AND SPECIFICATIONS
30CHAPTER XI CONSTRUCTION (pt. 1)
31CHAPTER XI CONSTRUCTION (pt. 2)
32CHAPTER XII MAINTENANCE OF SEWERS
33CHAPTER XIII COMPOSITION AND PROPERTIES OF SEWAGE
34CHAPTER XIV DISPOSAL BY DILUTION
35CHAPTER XV SCREENING AND SEDIMENTATION
36CHAPTER XVI SEPTICIZATION
37CHAPTER XVII FILTRATION AND IRRIGATION
38CHAPTER XVIII ACTIVATED SLUDGE
39CHAPTER XIX ACID PRECIPITATION, LIME AND ELECTRICITY, AND DISINFECTION
40CHAPTER XX SLUDGE
41CHAPTER XXI AUTOMATIC DOSING DEVICES
42Sewage Disposal Works: Their Design and Construction
43PREFACE
44INTRODUCTION.
45STORM-WATER OVERFLOW WEIRS.
46DETRITUS TANKS OR GRIT CHAMBERS.
47TANKS.
48SLUDGE DISPOSAL.
49PERCOLATING FILTERS.
50EFFLUENT SETTLING TANKS OR HUMUS PITS.
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