Course Overview
This course is a continuation of EENG 8750 and examines the principles of primary sedimentation and secondary treatment including suspended growth, attached growth, and secondary clarification. Practical and operational aspects would be emphasised.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Analyze the effectiveness of primary treatment.
- Discuss and apply the principles of primary sedimentation in the design of a primary wastewater treatment facility.
- Discuss the need for and the techniques of enhanced primary sedimentation.
- Determine the need for secondary treatment and interpret the basic kinetics of biological wastewater treatment.
- Define the limitations of primary treatment.
- Discuss the need for secondary treatment.
- Explain the basics of microbiological growth kinetics.
- Explain aerobic suspended growth processes.
- Analyze suspended growth systems such as activated sludge and its variants and their application to secondary wastewater treatment.
- Explain the application of microbiological kinetics to activated sludge.
- Explain plug-flow activated sludge kinetics.
- Discuss and demonstrate the design of activated sludge and its variants.
- Discuss and demonstrate the fundamentals of aerated lagoon design.
- Analyze fixed-film organic removal kinetics.
- Explain fixed-film organic removal kinetics.
- Discuss and demonstrate the sizing and design of trickling filters.
- Discuss and demonstrate the sizing and design of rotating biological contactors.
- Explain the concepts of hybrid systems.
- Analyze secondary clarification.
- Explain the importance of secondary clarification in biological treatment systems.
- Discuss the settling theory and its application in secondary settling.
- Apply key design criteria to size secondary settling tanks.
Effective as of Fall 2003
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