EnvE 552 Course in Graduate Environmental Engineering

Unit Processes / Operations of Wastewater Treatment

Course Description: Theory, applications, and experimental laboratory work with unit processes and operations to solution of environmental engineering problems encountered in wastewater treatment. Biological methods of treatment emphasized.

Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. (4 cr.)

Text: Metcalf and Eddy, Wastewater Engineering, McGraw Hill

Objective: Theoretical analysis and design of biological unit operations for wastewater, industrial wastes and hazardous wastes.

Topics:

Introduction to wastewater characteristics

Bioprocess and Bioreactors

Microbial toxicity

Sludge management

Aeration

Advanced biological processes

Bioprocesses for industrial wastes

Bioprocesses for hazardous wastes

Bioprocesses for groundwater treatment

Mechanisms