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May 04, 2024
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EV 720 - Municipal Wastewater Treatment3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course familiarizes students with planning, design and operation of design criteria and the design process for municipal wastewater treatment plants. The course covers design of physical, biological and chemical wastewater treatment processes and concepts in operational control. Students are required to prepare a design basis report and presentation for a particular wastewater treatment process, including preparation of a conceptual design and cost estimate. Offered Spring-E term. (prereq: EV 611 or department consent) (coreq: EV 614 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand sources, quantities and characteristics of wastewater pollutants and their impact to the environment
- Understand state and federal clean water regulations and emerging regulatory trends
- Specify typical design criteria and predict treatment performance for major physical, chemical and biological unit operations and processes used in municipal wastewater treatment
- Develop process flow diagrams to treat a wastewater given the wastewater characteristics and effluent limitations
- Perform mass and energy balances around treatment units
- Assess the performance of selected unit operations and processes using actual plant operating data
- Be familiar with sustainable solutions in water and biosolids reuse
- Estimate capital and O
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Course Topics
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Coordinator
Francis Mahuta
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