Course Catalogue.

After Participating in this Course, You will be Able to:

• Recognize the types of contaminants present in wastewater, apply the conventional chemical, biological and/or physical processes used to remove them, and select the type of treatment equipment required for their removal
• Characterize a wastewater based on flow and contaminant parameters
• Apply the principles and practices of conventional wastewater treatment systems learned at the seminar for the removal of suspended solids and colloids, dissolved and particulate organic matter, nitrogen and phosphorus
• Use where beneficial to your projects advanced bioreactors and wastewater treatment processes including fixed film and suspended growth bioreactors, biological nutrient removal, filtration, reverse osmosis, ion exchange, carbon adsorption, oxidization and sludge treatment processes
• Realize the potential for industrial water recovery and water re-use applications

Description
Municipal wastewater treatment needs a suitable combination of techniques and processes to achieve the best results. This seminar is designed to provide the user with a solid understanding of the most important principles and practices of this discipline. The seminar topics include municipal wastewater characterization and treatment, using both established conventional and advanced treatment technologies, including classical settling, secondary treatment, chemical and biological nutrient removal, filtration, (reverse osmosis, ion exchange, carbon adsorption), and disinfection.

Objective
To provide practitioners of wastewater engineering a sound working knowledge of conventional and advanced treatment processes applied in both centralized and decentralized wastewater treatment plants.

Who Should Attend
Facility/utility engineers, consulting engineers, plant managers, chemical technologists and technicians, plant operating personnel, building systems personnel, environmental managers and protective services personnel who work for a City/ Region/County , those responsible for capital equipment procurement, or anyone involved in the wastewater treatment industry requiring state-of-the-art knowledge of wastewater engineering processes and technologies, including reutilization and recycling of treated wastewater.

Course Syllabus

Program Outline

Faculty: Manuel Alvarez Cuenca, Ph.D., P.Eng., President, ECOTECHNOS INC.

Day I

Registration and Coffee

Welcome, Introduction, Workshop Preview, Learning Outcomes and the Assessment Method

Wastewater Sampling and Testing

• Selected parameters in wastewater treatment
• pH, DO, T
• Suspended solids
• Fat, oil and grease (FOG)
• Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), and chemical oxygen demand (COD)
• Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (TKN) and ammonia
• Total phosphorous
• Nitrate and nitrite
• Residual chlorine
• Sampling and testing for small plants

Wastewater Treatment - Pre-treatment and Primary Treatment

• Microbiology fundamentals in wastewater treatment
• Pretreatment : equalization flow, pH
• Primary treatment: solids removal

Wastewater Treatment - Secondary Treatment

• Bioreactors
• Aeration concepts and types of aerators
• Types of treatment processes: activated sludge treatment, rotating biological contactors and trickling filters, fluidized bed bioreactors
• Rudimentary technologies: septic tanks and lagoons/stabilization ponds

Adjournment

Day II

Wastewater Treatment - Tertiary Treatment

• Biological nutrient removal
• Nitrogen removal
• Phosphorus removal: chemical phosphorous removal , coagulation and flocculation concepts, biological phosphorous removal
• Filtration fundamentals
• Membranes
• Disinfection fundamentals

Advanced Wastewater Treatment - Reverse Osmosis (RO)

• Applications of membrane technologies
• RO principles
• RO applications

Advanced Wastewater Treatment - Ion Exchange

• Ion exchange principles
• Ion exchange applications
• Ion exchange issues

Advanced Wastewater Treatment – Advanced Oxidation

• The case of pharmaceuticals and endocrine disruptors in wastewater

Adjournment

Day III

Advanced Wastewater Treatment – Disinfection Processes

• Chlorination
• Ozonation
• Membranes as pathogen removers
• Ultraviolet and peroxide/ultraviolet processing

Sludge Treatment

• Aerobic treatment (ATAD processes)
• Anaerobic digestion

Characteristics of Effluents

• Chlorine/ammonia discharge requirements

Discharge Into Receiving Systems

• Potential impacts of effluent discharge into receiving water bodies

Infraguide Best Practices

Adjournment

Day IV 

Practical Exercises Related to Centralized and Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Plants

• Conventional wastewater treatment
• Advanced wastewater treatment

Afternoon
12:00-1:00 Lunch

2:00-3:30 Wastewater Treatment Plant Tour

Questions and Answers and Feedback to Participants on Achievement of Learning Outcomes

Final Adjournment

Daily Schedule
8:00 Registration and Coffee (Day I only)
8:30 Morning session begins
4:30 Adjournment

There will be a one-hour lunch break at noon on each day as well as a refreshment and networking break during each morning and afternoon session.