EnvE 456 Course in Graduate Environmental Engineering
Environmental Engineering Design
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Graduate Environmental Curriculum
Course Description: Design of chemical, physical, and biological operations and processes involved in water and wastewater treatment.
Prerequisite: CE 356. (3 cr.)
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Prerequisite: All students are assumed to have completed CE 356.
Topics:
Basic information and pre-treatment units for a wastewater treatment plant.
Design of primary treatment units for a municipal waste treatment plant.
Design of secondary treatment units at a wastewater treatment plant.
Design of the anaerobic digestion units and effluent disposal units.
Selection of design criteria for a surface drinking water treatment plant.
Design of each unit in a surface water treatment plant.
Computer Usage:The extensive use of word-processors and software drawing packages is evident in the design reports generated by the design teams.
Design Content:
The class of thirty students is broken into three seminar sections and into design teams of two. Each design-team is assigned one of seven New Mexico municipalities as the site of their treatment works. Three teams, one in each section, will share the same city. Each week, all three teams with the same city are to meet to coordinate their designs so that no two teams use exactly the same treatment technologies. Teams can, and do, share data and basic information about their community. Each team will submit two design reports (one on their wastewater treatment plant and the other on their water plant) and a poster-board that shows scale-drawing of the whole plant and x-sections of key units. In the design-seminars sessions students are expected to be prepared to discuss design elements and criteria, and to prepare and distribute handouts to other students on pre-assigned topics. During the last week of the Spring semester each team presents a description of their design to all of the members of the class.
