Catalog Description:Engineering design, measurements and analysis of biological systems in environmental engineering for water management, bio-energy products, wastewater treatment and others
Pre-requisite(s):
EES 4202 OR CI
Designation:Required
Contribution of course to meeting the Professional Component:
| Math & Science Topic | 1.0 credit hours |
| Engineering Topics | 2.0 credit hours |
| General Education Topics | 0.0 credit hours |
| Class Schedule: | Laboratory Schedule: | ||
| Number of sessions per week | 2 | Number of sessions per week | 1 |
| Duration of each session | 50 mins | Duration of each session | 3 hrs |
Course Objectives:
· Develop familiarity with analytical (including QA/QC) of importance
to design and operation of biological wastewater treatment systems and assessment
of receiving water impacts. Introduction to fundamental principles of organic
chemistry, biochemistry and microbiology of significance to environmental engineering
practice.
Topics:
· Statistics applications
· Summary statistics
·
Hypothesis testing
· Control charts for accuracy and precision
·
Data analysis
· Graphical analysis
· Determination of kinetic order
·
Chemistry
· Creating and balancing chemical redox equations
· Stoichiometric
calculations
· Thermodynamic calculations to predict reaction spontaneity
for different environmental conditions
· Knowledge of organic chemistry nomenclature
· Knowledge of abiotic and biotic reactions
· Microbiology
·
Identification of metabolic groups
· Biochemistry
· Knowledge of
fundamental pathways of catabolism
· Understanding of degradation of polymeric
organics in wastewater treatment
· Biological process design
· Derivation
of design equations from material balances and models of microbial growth and
substrate utilization
· Use of design equations fro biological process
design
· Sampling protocol for treatability study
· Data analysis
from treatability study to obtain biokinetic parameters
Textbook(s):
· Chemistry for Environmental Engineering, 4th Ed., by Sawyer, McCarty,
& Parkin, McGraw-Hill, New York, New York, 1994.
Reference(s):
· Biological Process Design For Wastewater Treatment, by Benefield &
Randall and 2nd Edition Draft.
Relationship of the
course to Program Outcomes:
· This course covers ABET criterion 3: a, b, e, f, g, h, j and k.
·
It is also used to apply environmental outcomes: 1, 3 and 5, instruction in
outcome 4 and assess outcomes 1 and 6.
· This course covers AAEE program
criterion dealing with statistics, general chemistry, microbiology, and engineering
design