WASTE TREATMENT
Conventional and separate collection of municipal solid waste: different systems, design criteria, calculation examples.
Municipal solid waste selection plants: technologies and mass balances.
Municipal and industrial waste incineration: characteristics of effluents, gaseous emission treatment technologies, design criteria, mass and energy balances, calculation examples.
Sanitary landfill: design criteria (impermeabilization, cover systems, biogas collection and recovery, leachate drainage and collection); calculation examples.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Preliminary design choices (number of lines, plant size etc..). General criteria for planning sewage collection and treatment: examples.
Wastewater pretreatment: screening, flow equalization, grit, oil and grease removal: design criteria.
Sedimentation: design criteria.
Activated sludge biological process: kinetics, reactors, design criteria, calculation examples.
Chemical and biological removal of nutrients (N and P): plant configurations and design criteria.
Hydraulic aspects: design criteria and calculation examples.
Design of facilities for the treatment of sewage sludge: thickening, aerobic and anaerobic digestion, mechanical dewatering. Calculation examples.
WATER TREATMENT
Chemical oxidation: design criteria
Coagulation/Flocculation: technologies and design criteria
Sand filtration and activated carbon adsorption: technologies and design criteria, examples.
Disinfection: mathematical models for design, examples.