Wastewater Treatment for Direct and Indirect Uses

Catalog description

This course examines the technologies required to produce safe drinking water and pretreated water for human uses and manufacturing from treated wastewater, surface, and groundwater sources. Course content includes study of the chemical and physical basis for using treatment media, including filtration, clarification, cartridge filtration, bag filtration, membrane filtration, silt dispersants, biocides, acids, scales inhibitors, sulfite compounds, ultraviolet irradiation and softening. Course content includes examining the characteristics of feed water contaminants and the fundamental principles of ion exchange water purification using ion exchange technology. Additional topics include in-depth problems that arise in the five steps of water production: mixing, flocculation, coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection. Students will expand their understanding of the chemistry involved in the disinfection of water and special treatment processes for taste and odor, water stabilization, and associated issues.