Environmental Engineering FOURTH EDITION

Index 475

Endpoints, assessment, 47

Energy

energy from waste combustion, 269,

287-290

Environmental ethics, 7,10,29

Environmental impact assessment, 13,

Environmental impact statement,

Environmental impact unit., 21

Environmental Protection Agency

23-25,29,324

13-21

(EW, 10

air quality standards, 371,380,382,

413-417

carcinogens, 41

hazardous waste, 295,347-349

radiation, 320

risk analysis, 9, 23-24,4546

water pollution law, 244,343

(EQI), 21

Environmental quality index

Epidemics, 2,5,51

Epilimnion, 70-71

Erosion. See Sedimentation

Escherichia coli, 100-101

Estuaries, 52,73,75,233,236

Eutrophic. See also Eutrophication, 73
Eutrophication, 72-73,197
Evaporation, 107-108,218-219,235
Evapotranspiration, 108
Event tree, 37-38
Exhaust gas recirculation (EGR), 406
Exposure time, 39,45
Exxon Valdez spill, 54,347

Ethics, 7-10

Fabric filters. See Control of airborne

Fall turnover, 71
Fanning plume, 359-360
Federal Aviation Administration, 441
Fertile isotopes, 330
Fertilizer

particulates, fabric filters

sludge, 209,228,230
water pollution, 52-53,73,75-76,97,
233,241-243,245-247
Filter beds, 141, 143-150, 183
Filter run, 143, 148-149
Filter yield, 95,222-223

Filtration

head loss, 143-145

sludge, 140

water treatment, 2,141-150

Financing of capital expenditures, 25-27

Finding of no significant impact (FONSI),

Fish

13-14,17-18,29,31

mercury poisoning, 76-77

oil spills, 54

oxygen depletion, 21,68,82

sedimentation, 52

Fisherman's Contingency Fund, 346

Fission chain reaction, 328

Fission products, 329-33 1

Fixed solids, 95-96

Flocculation, 135-140,180,309

Flotation thickener, 214,217-218

Flow weighted composite, 8 1-82

Fluegas desulfurization, 401402

Fluid bed incinerator, 228-229

Flux plot, 216

Fog, 361,371

Food and Drug Administration,

Food chain, 7,39,55,76,102,209,

Food-to-microorganisms ratio (F/M),

184-185,187

Formerly Used Sites Remedial Action

hogram (FUSRAP), 326

Free available chlorine, 150

Frequency analysis, 119,428

Friction loss, 122-123,131-132

Froth flotation, 286

Fuel injection engines, 406

Fumigation, 359-360

76,345

333-334,342,344

Gamma radiation, 3 13-3 18,320,

Garbage, 25 1,274

Garbage collection, 255-259

Garbage compactors, 255

Garbage grinder, 254,259

Gas bubbler, 378

Gas chromatography, 103-104,379

Gases, 68,325,333

control, 208,269,310,369-370,

329-330,332,337

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