EnvE 556 Course in Graduate Environmental Engineering
Advanced Waste Management
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Course Description: Advanced unit operations/processes of wastewater treatment, pretreatment requirements, flow equalization, neutralization, precipitation, adsorption, air floatation, air stripping, and nutrient removal. Examples drawn from trade waste. (3 cr.)
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Prerequisites: CE 256, CE 356, CE 456, or instructor's consent
Topics:
Chemical/Physical
Introduction and Waste minimization
Overview of the traditional technologies (settling, coagulation, flocculation, filtration.)
Flotation (Oil Separators and DAF)
Membrane Processes: Ultra-filtration, Micro-filtration, Reverse Osmosis, Electro-dialysis
Ion Exchange
Oxidation/Reduction, and pH adjustment for precipitation of in-organics and neutralization.
Treatment of Soils (metals and organics)
Biological Treatment
Soil venting (SVE) and Bio-venting
Biological Activated Carbon (BAC) and constructed wetlands.
Preoxidation for detox of organics
Project Time-line:
You must have an industry selected by the second week of the semester. On this date turn in the name of the industry an a one paragraph discussion of why the industry is of interest to you.
A first draft of your literature review will be due on the date of the first exam . Topic areas to be included in the draft are: Introduction, Background on the Industry, Regulations Governing the Industry, Waste Streams in the Industry, Common Treatment Techniques.
The second draft is due at the date of the second exam. The second draft will include an example problem. The example problem will be the preliminary design of a waste treatment plant for the industry of choice.
Wednesday during the last week of the semester the final report will be turned in. Each student will be given a copy of each of the reports. The final grade on the report will be a weighting of the grades at each of the perspective deadlines. Again each day after the deadline will be a 10 %/day reduction in points.
