Learning outcomes expected at the level of the course (4 to 10 learning outcomes) |
It is expected that the outcome of learning to provide knowledge about:
- the impact of pollution on developments in aquatic ecosystems
- the necessity of wastewater treatment and relationship with sustainable development
- calculating the state of oxygen in the ecosystem
- sources and characteristics of wastewater, pollution indicators
- calculation of wastewater loading by harmful substances and the number of population equivalent ES
- selection procedures and methods for wastewater treatment
- mechanical procedures for wastewater treatment
- physical and chemical processes for wastewater treatment
- mechanism and kinetics of biological wastewater treatment
- calculatin of basic parameters of process control with activated sludge
- methods of processing biological sludge and biogas production. |
Course content broken down in detail by weekly class schedule (syllabus) |
1 week: Introduction. Pollution of natural waters.
2 week: Pollution indicators: physical, chemical, biological, radiological. Specific and nonspecific quality indicators. Sampling methodology.
3 week: Autopurification process and carrying capacity. Oxygen levels in the water . The kinetics of the aerobic decomposition of organic matter in water. Numerical examples .
4 week: Quantity and quality of wastewater. Urban wastewater. Industrial effluents. Specifics of industrial wastewater .
5 week: Cooling wastewaters. Storm wastewater. Landfills leachate.
6 week: Loading of wastewater with harmful substances and the number of population equivalent ES. Numerical examples.
7 week: Wastewater treatment. Selection process and processing methods. Numerical examples. Mechanical methods of wastewater treatment.
8 week: Physico-chemical processes and practices for wastewater treatment: sedimentation, coagulation and flocculation, filtration, neutralization, chemical precipitation, oxidation, reduction, disinfection, membrane processes.
9 week: Physico-chemical processes for wastewater treatment. Numerical examples (part 1).
10 week: Physico-chemical processes for wastewater treatment. Numerical examples (part 2).
11 week: Biological processes for wastewater treatment. The factors of the biological activity of microorganisms. The types of microorganisms. The mechanism and kinetics of aerobic biological wastewater treatment.
12 week: Performance) of aerobic treatment processes: bioreactors, biofilters (biological trickling filters or rotating biodiscs), lagoons or stabilization ponds.
13 week: Technological performance of anaerobic wastewater treatment processes. The efficiency.
14 week: The parameters controlling the process of activated sludge. Numerical examples .
15 week: Treatment of sludge generated in the wastewater treatment: thickening , stabilization, dewatering, composting, conditioning, heat treating. Biogas production. Numerical examples. |
