Mathematics Manual for
Water and Wastewater
Treatment Plant Operators:
Wastewater Treatment
Operations
, Mathematics Manual for
Water and Wastewater
Treatment Plant Operators:
Wastewater Treatment
Operations
To properly operate a waterworks or wastewater treatment plant and to pass the
examination for a waterworks/wastewater operator’s license, it is necessary to know
how to perform certain calculations. All operators, at all levels of licensure, need
a basic understanding of arithmetic and problem-solving techniques to solve the
problems they typically encounter in the workplace.
Hailed on its first publication as a masterly account written in an engaging, highly
readable, user-friendly style, the fully updated Mathematics Manual for Water and
Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators: Wastewater Treatment Operations covers
all the necessary computations used in wastewater treatment today. It presents
math operations that progressively advance to higher, more practical applications,
including math operations that operators at the highest level of licensure would be
expected to know and perform.
Features:
• Provides a strong foundation based on theoretical math concepts, which it
then applies to solving practical problems for both water and wastewater
operations.
• Updated throughout and with several new practical problems added.
• Provides illustrative examples for commonly used waterworks and
wastewater treatment operations covering unit process operations found in
today’s treatment facilities.
, Mathematics Manual for
Water and Wastewater
Treatment Plant Operators:
Wastewater Treatment
Operations
Math Concepts and Calculations
Third Edition
Frank R. Spellman
, Third edition published 2024
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© 2024 Frank R. Spellman
First edition published by CRC Press 2004
Second edition published by CRC Press 2014
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