Advanced Biological Wastewater Treatment: Principles, Modelling and Design

This course seeks to address the quantity, complexity, and diversity of the developments in the wastewater treatment profession, particularly in developing countries where access is not readily available to advanced-level courses in wastewater treatment.

 

  • Describe the prime objective of wastewater treatment and sanitation.
  • Determine the stoichiometric and kinetic parameters of the different metabolic processes of the microorganisms involved during the biological wastewater treatment process
  • Critically determine and analyze quantity and quality characteristics of wastewaters
  • Design and critically assess different wastewater treatment systems and configurations performing biological organic matter, nitrogen as well as phosphorus removal.
  • Design and critically evaluate different disinfection treatments
  • Assess and describe through mathematical expressions the different processes occurring during wastewater treatment as well as effects caused by inhibitory compounds
  • Design and assess the operation of a biofilm system for wastewater treatment

 

  • Sanitary engineers
  •  Environmental biotechnologists
  •  Biochemists
  • Civil engineers
  • Environmental engineers
  • Chemists
  •  Environmental scientists
  • Different professionals working or interested in the wastewater treatment field.

 

  • Microbial Metabolism
  • Wastewater Characterization

  • Nitrogen Removal
  • Innovative Nitrogen Removal
  • Phosphorus Removal

 

  • Aeration and Mixing
  • Toxicity

 

  • Final Settling
  • Membrane Bio-reactors
  • Modeling Activated Sludge Processes

 

  • Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment
  • Modeling Biofilms
  • Biofilm Reactors

 

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