Course overview
The aim of this course is to introduce the students to the area of water and wastewater treatment. The course will cover water chemistry; characteristics of water and wastewater; primary, secondary and tertiary treatment processes; sludge disposal; and design of water and wastewater treatment plants. At the end of the course the students will have a working knowledge of the water and wastewater industry and have the skills to perform a preliminary design of a treatment plant. This will be achieved through descriptive lectures with an industry focus and supervised tutorials.
Course learning outcomes
- Explain fundamental water chemistry
- Identify the parameters that characterize the constituents found in potable water and wastewater
- Recognise the common physical, chemical and biological unit operations encountered in treatment processes
- Illustrate the fundamentals of water and wastewater treatment
- Discuss water quality data
- Characterise water and wastewater
- Formulate a preliminary design of a water and/or wastewater treatment plant and
- Work and communicate effectively as part of a small group.
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