Product Description
This is the definitive text in a market consisting of senior and graduate environmental engineering students who are taking a chemistry course. The text is divided into a chemistry fundamentals section and a section on water and wastewater analysis. In this new edition, the authors have retained the thorough, yet concise, coverage of basic chemical principles from general, physical, equilibrium, organic, biochemistry, colloid, and nuclear chemistry. In addition, the… More >>
Chemistry for Environmental Engineering and Science
Tags: Chemistry, Engineering, Environmental, Science
As a chemist with a bachelor’s and a doctorate, I’ve seen quite a few books on the subject. I can say with 100% certainty that this is the worst chemistry text ever. This book spews equations at the reader but does not connect any of the concepts. Key steps are left out of the explanations. The reader is left wondering how the authors got to the end of a multi-step problem in one step. Books like this one are what make students hate chemistry. Do yourself a favor and get any other chemistry book.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is one book which an engineer esp an environemtal engineer must have as it starts from basics and takes you to complex situations making them understandable.
Rating: 5 / 5
If you want to know it all about chemistry, this is the book for you. Covers general, physical, equilibrium, organic, bio-, colloid and nuclear chemistry in addition to all the environmental and wastewater chemistry. Take the time to read the chapters slowly and carefully, as almost every sentence contains vital information that you have to know. Fairly easy to follow and the example problems give good explanations. Downsides are that there are very few pictures and there could be more example problems.
Rating: 4 / 5
What a terrible book. I am currently taking an environmental chemistry course, and I’m learning more from my freshman Chem 101 notes and wikipedia than I am from this book. The chapters are too brief to even teach a topic, the examples aren’t explained well, you have no idea what is truly going on because facts are simply thrown at you, and overall, this book makes you hate environmental chemistry.
Additionally, the book is exorbitantly priced, as there are NO illustrations whatsoever and the inside looks like some cheap international edition – no color, maybe a scatter plot here and there. It is impossible to visualize any concepts that the book discusses. The authors are probably snoozing in their mansions right now as miserable students attempt to learn from this worthless piece of trash. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK.
Rating: 1 / 5