ENV 6519

Physical and Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering

University of South Florida

Spring 2008 semester

Instructor:  J.A. Cunningham (cunning@eng.usf.edu)

 

 

 

Links to Course Handouts and Documents

Note that all course materials are copyrighted and are intended only for the personal use by students registered in the class.

Documents may not be distributed without the written consent of the course instructor.

These files are PDF format unless otherwise stated.

∙   Class syllabus

∙   Homework #1, due in class on Thursday, January 17

∙   Homework #2, due in class on Thursday, January 24 [extended to Tuesday, January 29]

    Instructor’s solutions to homework #2

∙   Homework #3, due in class on Thursday, February 7

    Instructor’s solutions to homework #3

∙   Homework #4, due in class on Tuesday, February 19

    Instructor’s solutions to homework #4

∙   Homework #5, due in class on Tuesday, March 4

    Instructor’s solutions to homework #5

∙   Design project: Here are written documents related to the semester group design project:

    Overall instructions, issued 6 March 2008

∙   Semester examination, administered Tuesday, March 25

    Instructor’s solutions to the examination

 

 

 

Class Documents

∙   This handout contains formulae for estimating costs of GAC systems

    This handout contains formulate for estimating costs of air stripping systems

∙   Here is a list of papers and references that we have used this semester.  I can’t post PDF files on this web site because it would be a copyright violation.  You can look up the papers in the library.

Aieta, E.M., K.M. Reagan, J.S. Lang, L. McReynolds, J.-W. Kang, and W.H. Glaze, 1988.  Advanced Oxidation Processes for Treating Groundwater Contaminated with TCE and PCE: Pilot-Scale Evaluations.  Journal of the American Water Works Association, 80(5), 64–72.

Arnold, J.H., 1930.  Studies in Diffusion, I - Estimation of Diffusivities in Gaseous Systems.  Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 22(10), 1091–1095.

Ashworth, R.A., G.B. Howe, M.E. Mullins, and T.N. Rogers, 1988.  Air-water partitioning coefficients of organics in dilute aqueous solutions.  Journal of Hazardous Materials, 18(1), 25–36.

Crittenden, J.C., and D.W. Hand, 1987.  Design Considerations for GAC Treatment of Organic Chemicals.  Journal of the American Water Works Association, 79(1), 74–.

Crittenden, J.C., R.D. Cortright, B. Rick, S.-R. Tang, and D. Perram, 1988.  Using GAC to Remove VOCs from Air Stripper Off-Gas.  Journal of the American Water Works Association, 80(5), 73–84.

Glaze, W.H., and J.-W. Kang, 1988.  Advanced Oxidation Processes for Treating Groundwater Contaminated with TCE and PCE: Laboratory Studies.  Journal of the American Water Works Association, 80(5), 57–63.

Glaze, W.H., and J.-W. Kang, 1989a.  Advanced Oxidation Processes: Description of a Kinetic Model for the Oxidation of Hazardous Materials in Aqueous Media with Ozone and Hydrogen Peroxide in a Semibatch Reactor.  Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 28(11), 1573–1580.

Glaze, W.H., and J.-W. Kang, 1989b.  Advanced Oxidation Processes: Test of a Kinetic Model for the Oxidation of Organic Compounds with Ozone and Hydrogen Peroxide in a Semibatch Reactor.  Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 28(11), 1580–1587.

Gossett, J.M., 1987.  Measurement of Henry’s Law constants for C1 and C2 chlorinated hydrocarbons.  Environmental Science & Technology, 21(2), 202–208.

Hand, D.W., J.C. Crittenden, and W.E. Thacker, 1984.  Simplified Models for Design of Fixed-Bed Adsorption Systems.  Journal of Environmental Engineering (ASCE), 110(2), 440–456.

Karimi, A.A., J.A. Redman, W.H. Glaze, and G.F. Stolarik, 1997.  Evaluating an AOP for TCE and PCE removal.  American Water Works Association Journal, 89(8), 41–53.

Love, O.T., and R.G. Eilers, 1982.  Treatment of Drinking Water Containing Trichloroethylene and Related Industrial Solvents.  Journal of the American Water Works Association, 74(8), 413–.

McKinnon, R.J., and J.E. Dyksen, 1984.  Removing Organics from Groundwater through Aeration plus GAC.  Journal of the American Water Works Association, 76(5), 42–.

Sontheimer, H., J.C. Crittenden, and R.S. Summers, 1988.  Activated Carbon for Water Treatment, 2nd edition.  (First edition in German.)  Published in Germany by DVGW-Forschungsstelle, distributed in the USA by AWWA Research Foundation.

Speth, T.F., and R.J. Miltner, 1990.  Technical Note: Adsorption Capacity of GAC for Synthetic Organics.  Journal of the American Water Works Association, 82, 72–75.

Staudinger, J., and P.V. Roberts, 2001.  A critical compilation of Henry’s law constant temperature dependence relations for organic compounds in dilute aqueous solutions.  Chemosphere, 44, 561–576.

 

 

   

 

 

 

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