Research Catalog

Title

Analysis of surface waters / Hubert Hellmann ; translator, B.D. Hemmings ; translation editor, E.B. Pike.

Author

Hellmann, Hubert.

Publication

Chichester : E. Horwood ; New York : John Wiley, 1987.

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Details

Description

275 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Ellis Horwood series in water and wastewater technology

Uniform Title

Ellis Horwood series, water and wastewater technology

Subject

• Water chemistry
• Analyse chimique
• Analyse de l'eau
• Eaux superficielles

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

HYDROLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF SURFACE WATER ANALYSIS: The discharge -- Discharge and rainfall -- Groundwater and surface water -- The catchment area -- SOLIDS CONTAINED IN SURFACE WATERS: Suspended solids transport -- Erosion, deposition and sediment build-up -- WATER TEMPERATURE AND ILLUMINATION -- ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS: Natural discharge and sewage inputs -- Transport of natural and sewage-derived suspended solids -- SAMPLING: Water samples -- Suspended solids samples -- Samples of sediment or sludge -- CLASSICAL PARAMETERS: Cations and anions particularly in lightly polluted waters -- Nitrate: discharge behaviour and longitudinal profile -- Phosphate: discharge behaviour and longitudinal profiles -- Oxygen -- Ca2+/C02 seasonal pattern -- TRACE METALS: Brief details of analysis -- Background and anthropogenic pollution -- Dissolved and undissolved heavy metals -- Discharge behaviour and longitudinal profiles -- Sampling of sediments for heavy metals analysis -- HYDROCARBONS: Brief details of analysis -- Hydrocarbons of biogenic and mineral origin -- Hydrocarbons in natural waters -- water samples -- Hydrocarbons in lightly polluted sediments -- Hydrocarbons in sludges -- POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS: General analytical information -- Special remarks on analysis -- Dissolved and undissolved PAHs in surface waters -- PAHs in sediments and sludges -- HIGH-BOILING ORGANOHALOGEN COMPOUNDS: Brief details of analysis -- Organohalogen compounds in Rhine suspended solids -- Organohalogen compounds in sludges and sediments -- Organohalogen compounds in water samples from the Rhine -- LOW-BOILING ORGANOHALOGEN COMPOUNDS: Analysis of low-boiling organochlorine compounds -- Low-boiling organochlorine compounds in surface waters -- DETERGENTS: Detergents and biogenic interfering substances -- Analysis of anionic detergents -- Analysis of nonionic detergents -- Analysis of cationic detergents -- OTHER SUBSTANCES AND GROUPS OF SUBSTANCES: Readily condensed substances -- phenols -- Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) -- Ligninsulphonic acids and humic acids -- Organochlorine compounds of intermediate boiling point -- Dissolved organochlorine compounds (DOCl) -- Dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans -- CROSS-CONNECTIONS: Cognate parameters -- Parameters of identical origin -- Tracer parameters -- Associated parameters -- CALCULATING RATES OF MASS TRANSPORT: Transport/discharge relationship for dissolved solids -- Transport/discharge relationship for undissolved solids -- Transport/discharge relationship for dissolved/undissolved solids -- TREND DETERMINATION: Problems of trend determination -- Freshwater lakes -- Lightly polluted watercourses -- Polluted watercourses -- Concluding observations -- SOURCES OF MATERIALS TRANSPORT: The background problem -- Origin of mass flows in flowing water -- MATERIALS BALANCES -- ROUND ESTIMATES -- MODEL CALCULATIONS: Materials balances -- Rough estimates -- Model calculations.

ISBN

• 0745802133
• 9780745802138
• 0470209240
• 9780470209240

LCCN

87021349

OCLC

• ocm16404110
• 16404110
• SCSB-8822137

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library