WATER TREATMENT PLANTS

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: PAOLO ROCCARO

Expected Learning Outcomes

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.

Required Prerequisites

None.

Attendance of Lessons

Classes attending is strongly advised.

Detailed Course Content

Presentation of the course. Water quality parameters: chemical-physical and microbiological. Examples. Water intended for human consumption and mineral water legislation. Physico-chemical processes (chemical reactions, reactors, mass transfer). Sedimentation. Filtration. Coaggulation and flocculation. Exercise: design of chemical-physical water treatment units. Adsorption. Aeration and stripping. Redox. Exercise: design of chemical-physical water treatment units. Conventional biological processes. Exercise. Disinfection of water intended for human consumption. Exercise: design of Disinfection Unit . Water treatment plant schemes for human consumption. Removal of specific pollutants (Fe, Mn, Ca, Mg, F, As, V, etc.). Exercise with intermediate test. Case studies on Etnean groundwater treatments. Emerging issues. Corrosion. Bacterial regrowth. Fouling. Control of disinfection by-products (DBP). Case studies and innovative technologies for the control of DBPs. Membrane processes. AOPs.

Characteristics of wastewater, standards, Exercise. Biological secondary treatments. Exercise: sizing of biological units with suspended biomass. Treatment of waste materials. Sludge line. Exercise: Sizing of the sludge line. Advanced biological processes. Climate change adaptation: desalination and reuse.

Textbook Information

MWH's Water Treatment: Principles and Design, 3rd Edition.

Course Planning

	Subjects	Text References
1	Presentation of the course. Water quality parameters: chemical-physical and microbiological. Examples. Water intended for human consumption and mineral water legislation. Physico-chemical processes (chemical reactions, reactors, mass transfer). Sedimentation. Filtration. Coaggulation and flocculation. Exercise: design of chemical-physical water treatment units. Adsorption. Aeration and stripping. Redox. Exercise: design of chemical-physical water treatment units. Conventional biological processes. Exercise. Disinfection of water intended for human consumption. Exercise: design of Disinfection Unit . Water treatment plant schemes for human consumption. Removal of specific pollutants (Fe, Mn, Ca, Mg, F, As, V, etc.). Exercise with intermediate test. Case studies on Etnean groundwater treatments.	MWH's Water Treatment: Principles and Design, 3rd Edition.
2	Emerging issues. Corrosion. Bacterial regrowth. Fouling. Control of disinfection by-products (DBP). Case studies and innovative technologies for the control of DBPs. Membrane processes. AOPs.	MWH's Water Treatment: Principles and Design, 3rd Edition.
3	Characteristics of wastewater, standards, Exercise. Biological secondary treatments. Exercise: sizing of biological units with suspended biomass. Treatment of waste materials. Sludge line. Exercise: Sizing of the sludge line. Advanced biological processes. Climate change adaptation: desalination and reuse.	Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse : Metcalf & Eddy, Inc., N/A, Tchobanoglous, George, Burton, Franklin, Stensel, H. David

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Final exam: oral discussion of Exercises / Project and other topicsof the course (the project paper (Word and Excel formats) must be sent to the teacher one week before the exam).

There is also an "in itinere" test. Passing the "in itinere" test allows students to take the oral exam mentioned above excluding the topics for which they have already had a positive evaluation that will contribute to the final grade. However, they have the opportunity to take the exam on the whole program even in the case in which a positive evaluation of the ongoing test is examined.

Exams can also be carried out electronically should the conditions require it, request it.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

Reactor Sizing.

Coagulation.

Advanced oxidation processes,

Desalination.

Biological treatments.

Disinfection and control of DBPs.

Potable reuse.

Contaminants of emerging concern (CEC).

Degree Course in

Water and Transportation Civil Engineering