Modeling Wastewater Renovation: Land Treatment

The physical, geochemical, and biochemical processes associated with the renovation of wastewater by land treatment are complex, frequently interactive, and generally highly sensitive to changes in the physical environment. As in other disciplines dealing with complex and interactive problems, it is reasonable to expect that mathematical models could provide valuable guidance in site selection, design, and management of land‐treatment facilities. This book presents discussions of the processes recognized as being pertinent to land treatment facilities and describes mathematical models that have been developed to represent these processes. Specific topics include water movement, solute transport, salinity models, plant uptake, trace elements, virus movement, soil nitrogen, and soil phosphorus. Additional models pertinent to site selection and system optimization are also presented.