Comprehensive Sewer Collection Systems Analysis Handbook for Engineers and Planners

Written by leading industry experts, Comprehensive Sewer Collection Systems Analysis Handbook For Engineers and Planners covers theoretical scientific foundations, advanced technological issues, and real-world modeling application solutions, supported by extensive exercises. The book includes many worked out example problems and brings together both the theoretical and practical information required for the effective modeling of hydraulic and water quality conditions in sewer systems. It describes state-of-the-art network modeling techniques, explores the latest knowledge and technologies, and provides the detailed information needed to become a master modeler.

The unparalleled scope and specific focus of the book make it the only work of its kind, and an essential addition to any scientific and engineering reference library. Chapter-by-chapter coverage includes reviews of sewer collection systems (sanitary, storm and combined); dry and wet weather load estimation, including infiltration/inflow contributions; rainfall-runoff modeling; hydraulics of steady sewer flows, including gradually and rapidly varied flows; unsteady flow hydraulics (St. Venant equations), including numerical solution methods (method of characteristics, finite difference techniques, kinematic wave model, Muskingum-Cunge method); water quality analysis; management of storm and combined sewer overflows, including surface detention and retention systems, infiltration basins and subsurface detention systems; regulation of sewer systems; and management of urban watersheds.

The in-depth volume even includes detailed descriptions of how to simulate hydrogen sulfide generation, degradation and release in both gravity and pressure mains; rates of microbially-induced corrosion; sediment transport and deposition; time of concentration; biochemical oxygen demand; pollutant loading, transport and buildup; and tracing of domestic, commercial and industrial contributions.

The book is arranged into eight chapters and is written using both SI and US customary units. Its objective is to present the basic principles of sewer collection systems engineering and management and the application of these principles to solving practical, real-life problems. The book can be used to teach sewer systems modeling at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as an excellent reference for any wastewater utility professional and engineering consultant. It is an invaluable reference to accumulate knowledge and find comprehensive sewer network modeling and design concepts and procedures, worked-out example problems, and up-to-date references for further reading. Combining theory with hands-on modeling applications, the book provides a complete and enriching educational experience, even to readers new to the wastewater industry.