WATER TREATMENT PLANTS
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 1° Year - Curriculum Ingegneria delle acqueCredit Value: 6
Scientific field: ICAR/03 - Sanitary and environmental engineering
Taught classes: 28 hours
Exercise: 30 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Learning Objectives
Providing theoretical and practical knowledge to design and manage the water treatment and reclamation plants.
Course Structure
Lectures. Open discussion on the content of the lectures. Classroom exercises on sizing of reactors for water treatment with the aid of IT tools.
Detailed Course Content
Wastewater treatment plants and water reclamation plants. Treatment trains. Preliminary and primary treatments. Secondary biological treatments. Innovative treatment systems (MBR, MBBR, etc.). Alternative disinfection technologies. Removal of emerging contaminants (xenobiotics, endocrine disrupting compounds, etc.) Water reuse and sustainabiity. Sludge treatment and disposal. Control of processes. Design of wastewater treatment plants and water reclamation plants.
Water treatment plants. Legislation. Treatment trains and costs. Advanced treatment processes. Control of emerging contaminants. Design of water treatment plants.
Textbook Information
Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse 4th Edition, Metcalf & Eddy Inc.
MWH's Water Treatment: Principles and Design, 3rd Edition