CEEN 470 WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT OPERATIONS Course Syllabus Fall Semester, 2013 Meeting time:

e: MWF 11:00 to 11:50 AM Location: Coolbaugh Hall 131 Instructor: Dr. Tzahi Cath Office: Chauvenet Hall 128 Phone: 303-273-3402 (office) Email: tcath@mines.edu Course website: http://inside.mines.edu/~tcath/courses/ESGN_EGGN453/ Office hours: At this point, by appointment only. I may be periodically unavailable because I am preparing for class, working on research projects, attending faculty meetings, advising students, or traveling. Appointments may be scheduled in person, on the phone, or preferably by e-mail. Text: Unit Operations and Processes in Environmental Engineering, 2nd edition, Reynolds/Richards, PWS Publishing Company

Course Purpose and Scope: The goal of this course is to familiarize you with the fundamental phenomena involved in conventional water and wastewater treatment processes (theory) and the engineering approaches used in designing such processes (design). The course will cover water and wastewater treatment concepts, including discussions on key constituents present in water and wastewater, water and wastewater quality standards, concepts of mass and energy balance, and flow and reaction kinetics. Physical and chemical processes as applied to water and wastewater treatment will be taught flowed by physical, chemical, and biological unit operations and processes for wastewater treatment. Design principles related to residuals management and effluent disposal/reuse will also be discussed. Treatment objectives will be discussed as the driving force for water and wastewater treatment. After completing this course, you should be able to: Define treatment objectives for various constituents of water and domestic wastewater Describe (qualitatively and mathematically) physical, chemical, and biological processes that are applied to remove water and wastewater constituents Apply engineering approaches to the design of unit processes for water and wastewater treatment Integrate the individual unit processes in a complete treatment train that meets use and discharge requirements

Keep in mind that though this is a design-oriented course, an understanding of the fundamental phenomena involved in treatment is important. As such, for each treatment process, we will first discuss the underlying physics, chemistry, and biology (if applied) of the process, and then move on to the engineering design of the process. In the subsequent CEEN 471 course you will work in 1

groups during the spring semester to incorporate the knowledge you gained this semester (CEEN 470) into design of an entire treatment trains/plants. Though our ability to efficiently incorporate fundamental phenomena into the design process is currently limited (thus, much of the design process is empirically based), this gap will close as both computing power and our understanding of the fundamentals increase. Other info: Expected prerequisite knowledge includes physical, chemical, and biological properties of water, characteristics of organic and inorganic pollutants, water quality standards, materials balance, introduction to water and wastewater management, aqueous chemistry and microbiology. In order to practice some of the concepts presented, I will periodically ask you to work problems during class. A number of these problems require numerical calculations, so please bring a calculator and your notes to class. You are welcome to work together on the homework, but I expect your intellectual participation in solving the problems. The homework is intended to reinforce your understanding of the material discussed in class, so if you cant do those problems, you are likely to have difficulty with the exams Your final grade in this course is based entirely on your performance on the exams and quizzes. If you are having difficulty, PLEASE come see me sooner is better than too late. Finally, while the concepts in this class are truly interesting, some of the material can get rather dry. Ill do my best to keep things interesting, which may involve your participation dont be shy! Ill also survey you periodically to see what sorts of things I can do better, so keep that in mind as the semester goes on. Course grading distribution: Midterm exams Quizzes Final exam Participation (including home assignments) 2x25% 15% 25% 10%

Note that homework will only be graded as , + or -. Solutions will be posted online for consultation after the homework is due. It is in your best interest to first attempt the homework on your own, consulting the solutions when you get stuck. If you can do the homework, you can do the exams! Grading System: All students will be graded using the +/- system. At the end of the semester, all grades are final. If an error was made in the determination of your grade, it will be corrected. Additional References: MWH, Water Treatment Principles and Design, 2nd and/or 3rd edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2005. Metcalf and Eddy, Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill

Syed R. Qasim, Edward M. Motley, Guang Zhu, Water Works Engineering, Prentice Hall PTR, 2000. Water Quality and Treatment, Fourth edition, edited by F.W. Pontius, American Water Works Association, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1990. Water Treatment Plant Design, edited by R.L. Sanks, Ann Arbor Science Publishers, Butterworth Publishers, Boston, 1978. Pumping Station Design, edited by R.L. Sanks, Butterworths Publishers, Boston, 1989. Casey, T.J., Water and Wastewater Engineering Hydraulics, Oxford University Press, New York, 1992. Casey, T.J., Unit Treatment Processes in Water and Wastewater Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, 1997. Mixing in Coagulation and Flocculation, edited by A. Amirtharajah, M.M. Clark, and R.R. Trussell, American Water Works Association Research Foundation, 1991. Kawamura, S., Integrated Design of Water Treatment Facilities, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2000. EPA website: http://www.epa.gov/watrhome/ Notes

Fall 2013 Tentative Schedule: Wk Anticipated topic 1 Aug 19 No class Faculty Conference Aug 21 Course introduction, overview of water and WW treatment, treatment objectives, treatment trains, water quality, types of water Aug 23 Overview: Conservation equations and mass balances, chemical reactions, reactor design 2 Aug 26 P: Flow control, measurement, and equalization Aug 28 P: Screening (fine, coarse, intake) Aug 30 P: Sedimentation (pre, I, II, III) 3 Sep 2 P: Sedimentation (grit removal, hydrocyclones) Labor Day, Class in session Sep 4 P: Mixing (rapid, flocculation) Sep 7 P: Mixing (rapid, flocculation) 4 Sep 9 P: Sedimentation (pre, I, II, III) Sep 11 Sep 13 Sep 16 Sep 18 Sep 20 Sep 23 Sep 25 Sep 27 Sep 30 Oct 2 Oct 4 P: Sedimentation (pre, I, II, III, 1, 2) P: Media filtration P: Media filtration P: Media filtration, filtration (MF, UF) and midterm prep First Midterm C: Disinfection (theory) C: Disinfection (chlorine) C: Disinfection (UV, ozone, ClO2) C: Coagulation (theory, coagulant aids) C: Coagulation, flocculation, alkalinity, and pH control C: Softening (theory)

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Anticipated topic C: Softening (chemical, IX) C: Softening (chemical, IX) C: Gas (oxygen) transfer and oxidation Fall Break No Class Midterm prep Second midterm B: Introduction to WW treatment and relevant regulations B: Secondary treatment: biological treatment (theory) microbiology B: Secondary treatment: aerobic suspended and attached growth processes removal B: Secondary treatment: biological and chemical nutrient removal B: Secondary treatment: biological and chemical nutrient removal B: Secondary treatment: AS for removal of organics (design) B: Secondary treatment: AS for removal of organics (design) (cont.) +2 clarification review B: Secondary treatment: secondary clarification (design example) B: Trickling filters and rotary biological contactors B: Anaerobic and aerobic digestion B: Anaerobic and aerobic digestion B: Other biological processes Solids handling D: Membranes (NF, RO; flux, rejection, recovery) D: Membranes (NF, RO; flux, rejection, recovery) D: Electrodialysis and other novel processes Thanksgiving No Class Thanksgiving No Class D: Distillation (theory, heat and energy demand) Review and final exam preparation Final Exam

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