Progress in Environmental Engineering Water, Wastewater Treatment and Environmental Protection Issues

Progress in Environmental Engineering contains theoretical and experimental contributions on water purification, new concepts andmethods of wastewater treatment, and ecological problems in freshwater ecosystems. The issues dealt with in the book include: (i) Causes and control of activated sludge bulking and foaming (ii) e use of new support materials in activated sludge technology as a result of studies on wastewater treatment in a sequencing batch reactor with keramsite grains as the porous carrier in Moving Bed Sequencing Batch Biofi lm Reactors (iii) Greenhouse gas emissions from WWTPs especially mechanisms of N2O production in biological wastewater treatment under nitrifying and denitrifying conditions and strategies to mitigate N2O emissions from biological nitrogen removal systems as well as spatiotemporal variation of nitrous oxide emissions from reservoirs ( iv) Novel techniques of water protection against eutrophication and reclamation, in particular aspects of chemical methods of reclamation e.g. using lime for the inactivation of phosphate (v) A method for risk management in water distribution system operation and maintenance using Bayesian process. e proposed method makes it possible to estimate the risks associated with the possibility of partial or total loss of the ability of water supply system operation. Progress in Environmental Engineering includes unique contributions to understand selected aspects of environmental protection and proposes methods to eff ectively solve pollution problems. The book will be of interest to academia and professionals interested or involved in environmental engineering.

Preface About the editors Risk management in water distribution system operation and maintenance using Bayesian theory B. Tchórzewska-Cieslak & K. Pietrucha-Urbanik Differentiation of selected components in bottom sediments of Poland’s Solina-Myczkowce complex of dam reservoirs L. Bartoszek, J.A. Tomaszek & J.B. Lechowicz The role of wetlands in the removal of heavy metals from the leachate (on the example of the Lipinka River catchment, southern Poland) T. Molenda The possibilities of limitation and elimination of activated sludge bulking M. Kida, A. Maslon, J.A. Tomaszek & P. Koszelnik Lakes and reservoirs restoration – Short description of the chosen methods L. Bartoszek & P. Koszelnik The use of keramsite grains as a support material for the biofilm in moving bed technology A. Maslon & J.A. Tomaszek A review of current knowledge on N2O emissions from WWTPs J.A. Tomaszek & J. Czarnota Author index