Catalog Description:Water treatment and wastewater treatment design considerations with effluent and sludge handling, treatment and disposal
Pre-requisite(s):
MAP 2302 Differential Equations
CWR 3201 Fluid Mechanics
ENV 3001 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
CHM 2045 / CHM 2046 Freshman Chemistry
Designation:Required
Contribution of course to meeting the Professional Component:
| Math & Science Topic | 0.0 credit hours |
| Engineering Topics | 4.0 credit hours |
| General Education Topics | 0.0 credit hours |
| Class Schedule: | Laboratory Schedule: | ||
| Number of sessions per week | 2 | Number of sessions per week | N/A |
| Duration of each session | 110 mins | Duration of each session | N/A |
Course Objectives
· Development of non-steady state descriptive equations for water/wastewater
applications with fundamental mass balances. Design emphasis on steady-state
case.
· Knowledge of treatment objectives for municipal water and wastewater
processes.
· Knowledge of typical characteristics (quantity and quality)
of source waters for potable water supply and municipal wastewaters.
·
Process selection for typical municipal applications.
· Process design
calculations for typical unit operations and processes in municipal applications.
·
Application of chemistry fundamentals to process design procedure, including
stoichiometry, kinetics, acid-base, oxidation-reduction, and solubility.
Topics:
· Definition of typical flow sheets (combination of unit operations/processes)
for municipal water and wastewater treatment, including residuals management.
Emphasis on liquid processing.
· Specification of accepted design criteria for all applicable operations
based on historical practice: Detention time, Scour velocities, Overflow rate
or hydraulic loading rate, Solids loading rate, Solids residence time, Organic
loading rate, Velocity gradient (mixing and flocculation processes).
· Process design calculations and performance expectations for the following
operations based on mass balances, including reaction kinetics and reactor engineering
concepts where appropriate. Identification of typical applications: Sedimentation
(non-flocculent, flocculent, and hindered settling), Filtration, Coagulation
and flocculation, Chemical precipitation (softening), Chemical reactors, Disinfection,
Biological processes (activated sludge, trickling filter, aerobic lagoons),
Dewatering, Digestion, Activated carbon, Membrane processes, Ion exchange, Aeration.
Textbook(s):
· Reynolds and Richards. Unit Operations and Processes in Environmental
Engineering. 2nd Edition. PWS Publishing Company. 1996.
· Course notes
package.
Reference(s):
· N/A
Relationship of the
course to Program Outcomes:
Civil Engineering Outcomes
4. Graduates will solve problems that involve integral
calculus (plug flow reactors).
5. Graduates will demonstrate the ability to analyze
and interpret supplied data (for example, estimation of kinetic parameters).
6.
Graduates will be exposed to real-world problems and solutions.
Environmental
Engineering Outcomes
4. Graduates will solve problems that involve integral calculus
(plug flow reactors).
5. Graduates will solve problems involving topics from
chemistry such as stoichiometry, kinetics, equilibrium and gases.
7. Graduates
will demonstrate the ability to analyze and interpret supplied data (for example,
estimation of kinetic parameters).
8. Graduates will be exposed to real-world
problems and solutions.
Civil Engineering Program Criteria
1. Graduates will demonstrate
proficiency in mathematics through integral calculus (plug flow reactors).
2.
Graduates will demonstrate proficiency in topics from chemistry.
3. Graduates
will demonstrate the ability to analyze and interpret supplied data (for example,
estimation of kinetic parameters).
4. Graduates will demonstrate an ability to
perform engineering design (process selection, process design to size components).
Environmental
Engineering Program Criteria
1. Graduates will demonstrate proficiency in mathematics
through integral calculus (plug flow reactors).
2. Graduates will demonstrate
proficiency in topics from chemistry.
3. Graduates will demonstrate proficiency
in topics from biology (microbial growth kinetics).
4. Graduates will demonstrate
knowledge of environmental issues (receiving water standards) and health impacts
(drinking water standards).
5. Graduates will demonstrate the ability to analyze
and interpret supplied data (for example, estimation of kinetic parameters).
6.
Graduates will demonstrate an ability to perform engineering design (process
selection, process design to size components).