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Physical and chemical treatment processes used for the removal of
undesirable constituents (contaminants) from water and wastewaters will
be examined in this course. The treatment processes that will be
evaluated include all of the major processes used in domestic and
industrial water and wastewater treatment.
The course examines the
mechanisms that are responsible for contaminant removal and the
quantitative representation (theoretical and empirical formulations) of
these processes that have been developed to predict treatment
performance and are used in process design.
Problem sets (homework)
assigned during the semester generally reflect actual situations
obtained from engineering studies (full-, pilot-, or bench-scale
studies). These problem sets provide students the opportunity to
discover how quantitative relationships based on theory can be
integrated with actual situations in water and wastewater treatment
systems.
The following areas will be covered:
- Reactor Engineering (Material balances, kinetics)
- Mixing
- Coagulation, Flocculation, and Chemical Precipitation
- Sedimentation
- Flotation
- Gas Transfer and Aeration
- Filtration
- Carbon Adsorption
- Ion Exchange
I will also distribute a number of handouts during the
semester to augment lecture notes and areas not
covered by the text.
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