SANITARY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING PLANTS
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: Filippo FAZZINOExpected Learning Outcomes
Course Structure
Detailed Course Content
Environmental regulation.
Waste treatment. Waste classification. Solid waste characterization. Product analysis. Liquid waste. Case Study. Integrated management of municipal solid waste (MSW). ATO. Recycling. Ecological points and CCR. Plant localization. Selection plants. Composting. Controlled landfill facility. Leachate collection and treatment systems. Biogas collection and valorisation systems. Exercise: Sizing of waste treatment plants. Case Study. Waste treatment plant. Innovative models of MSW management. Recovery of Etnean volcanic ash.
Wastewater treatment. Fundamentals of water treatment. Characteristics of waste water, standards, Exercise. Advanced characterization of wastewater and biological kinetics. Case Study. Preliminary treatments: screen, coarse solids removal. Equalization. Exercise: sizing of preliminary and primary treatments. Secondary treatments. Suspended and attached biomass. Microbial metabolism. Tertiary treatments for nutrient removal: biological nitrogen removal; Biological and chemical-physical removal of phosphorus. Combined systems for nutrient removal. Exercise: sizing of biological units with suspended biomass. Exercise: sizing of biological units. Exercise: sizing of advanced chemical-physical units. Disinfection of wastewater. Exercise: disinfection sizing. Treatment of waste materials. Sludge line. Exercise: Sizing of the sludge line. Membrane Bioreactors (MBR). Conventional and innovative processes with attached biomass (trickling filters, Rotating biological contactors, BAF, MBBR). Case Study. SBR. Granular aerobic sludges. Reuse of sludge. Decentralized systems for the recovery and use of rainwater and gray water. Case Study. Case studies on emerging contaminants in wastewater treatment plants plants and in receiving water bodies.
Textbook Information
De Feo, De Gisi, Galasso. Rifiuti solidi. Progettazione e gestione di impianti per il trattamento e lo smaltimento. Flaccovio Ed.
Ingegneria delle acque reflue, trattamento e riuso, METCALF & EDDY.
Masotti, Depurazione delle acque, CALDERINI, Bologna 2012.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Impianti di trattamento dei rifiuti | Dispense del docente; De Feo, De Gisi, Galasso. Rifiuti solidi. Progettazione e gestione di impianti per il trattamento e lo smaltimento. Flaccovio Ed. |
| 2 | Impianti di trattamento delle acque reflue | Dispense del docente; Ingegneria delle acque reflue, trattamento e riuso, METCALF & EDDY. Masotti, Depurazione delle acque, CALDERINI. |