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.
Electromechanical equipment.
Building issues.
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.
Electromechanical equipment.
Building issues.