CVE 3251 - Design of Municipal Potable Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants

• Municipal Potable Water Treatment:
  • Find the applicable MCL/MCLG for various contaminants in potable water supplies
  • Measure the alkalinity of a water sample using titrimetric methods
  • Design a chemical feed system for a water treatment application
  • Explain the theory behind coagulation and flocculation processes
  • Determine the optimum pH and chemical dose for turbidity removal
  • Explain how water can be softened
  • Calculate chemical / resin requirements for water softening
  • Distinguish between the four different types of settling behaviors
  • Design a sedimentation basin using typical overflow/loading rate criteria
  • Explain the similarities and differences between granular and membrane filtration
  • Design a granular media filter using typical design criteria
  • Explain the chemistry of chlorine disinfection
  • Calculate the size of a chemical disinfection tank using typical design criteria
• Municipal Wastewater Treatment:
  • List the constituents and their concentrations in typical untreated domestic wastewater and the corresponding categorical effluent limitations for these constituents
  • Estimate the values of the principal flow rate terms using statistical analysis
  • Analyze a wastewater sample for solids and oxygen demand
  • Design major unit operations and processes using typical design criteria to include (a) preliminary, primary, and secondary wastewater treatment, and (b) solids handling, thickening, stabilization, dewatering, and land application
  • Prepare a preliminary design report for a new WWTP to include process description, process flow diagram, material balances, and major equipment list

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• Municipal Potable Water Treatment:
  • Water demand, source evaluation, and water quality
  • Chemical handling and feed systems
  • Coagulation and flocculation
  • Softening (lime-soda ash/ion exchange)
  • Sedimentation
  • Filtration (granular and membrane)
  • Disinfection
  • Residuals management and disposal
• Municipal Wastewater Treatment:
  • Wastewater characteristics and treatment standards
  • Wastewater flow rates and loadings
  • Headworks and preliminary treatment
  • Primary treatment
  • Wastewater microbiology (growth, decay, kinetics)
  • Secondary treatment (suspended and attached growth)
  • Nutrient (N and P) removal
  • Residuals management (thickening, dewatering, stabilization, land application)
  • Disinfection

• Municipal Potable Water Treatment:
  • Alkalinity
  • Turbidity removal
  • Ion exchange demonstration
  • Settling column demonstration
• Municipal Wastewater Treatment:
  • BOD/COD
  • Solids
• Other interactive problem-solving sessions that reinforce the lecture topics