Download or read book Energy/environment Opportunities for Civil Engineers written by Ronald D. Neufeld and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of sessions of the ASCE National Convention, held in Nashville, Tennessee, 1988. Sponsored by the Energy Division of ASCE. This collection contains 17 papers that describe opportunities for civil engineers in resolving apparent conflicts between needs for energy generation and environmental acceptability. Papers examine the decommissioning of nuclear facilities with regard to risk assessment in nuclear and hazardous waste plants and environmental effects; several case studies are presented. Other papers assess current trends in resource recovery technology and describe municipal energy recovery systems.