Publisher's Synopsis
Environmental engineering is the branch of engineering that is concerned with protecting people from the effects of adverse environmental effects, such as pollution, as well as improving environmental quality. The text Chemistry for Environmental Engineering and Science focuses on the aspects of chemistry that are particularly valuable for solving environmental problems, and deals with groundwork for understanding water and wastewater analysis-a fundamental basis of environmental engineering practice. A solution to environmental issue on processing of cocos nucifera shell derived activated carbon for treatment of distillery spent wash has been presented in first chapter. Second chapter focuses on geology and geotectonic setting of the basement complex rocks in south western Nigeria. Third chapter deals with petrography, geochemistry and petrogenesis of late-stage granites. Fourth chapter explains how geological information can be extracted from satellite imagery and how this information can be merged with geological and geophysical data to build consistent geological models for the surface and subsurface. Fifth chapter reviews the main factors that control the incorporation of metals to the sediments in transitional coastal environments, with a focus on the forcing factors and their temporal evolution in the recent sedimentary. In sixth chapter, we propose a new class of materials-fluorescently labeled phospholipids, which can be used as chemical and biochemical sensors. Relevant issues and current dimensions in global environmental change (GEC) have been described in seventh chapter. In eighth chapter, we review those genes that have been reported to be involved in S. mutans aciduricity, including those participating in two-component systems and others, especially targeting the dgk homolog. Ninth chapter focuses on characterizations of environmental composites. The purpose of last chapter is to present the analysis of different geological provinces to address the possibility of storing anthropogenic CO2 in deep underground geologic formations, particularly in eastern continental Mexico.
