Wastewater Treatment Reclamation

Overview:

Introduction:

Aging infrastructure. Increasing costs. Changing technologies and protecting public health and improving the water environment. These are among the many issues and opportunities challenging water reclamation – a vital $100 billion/year industry that includes wastewater treatment facilities, collection systems, and water resource recovery programs.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course, the participants will be able to:

• Learn to evaluate and apply the latest technologies and processes in water reclamation, and how to improve your own individual facilities, projects, and programs.
• Improve your ability to communicate across multiple disciplines, including engineering, regulations, technology, operations, maintenance, finance, and management.
• Gain insight into the trends and developments that will shape water reclamation in the 21st Century, and how your company and colleagues can tackle these challenges and opportunities.

Targeted Audience:

• Operators of Wastewater Treatment Plants
• Environmental technology university students and graduates.
• Technicians from the private sector whose work is related to environmental technologies.
• Local Authorities employees.
• Elected Local Authorities representatives who are interested in environmental issues.

Course Outlines:

Unit 1: Practical Management Issues:

• Management Issues.
• Good Management Practices.
• Good Operating Practices.

Unit 2: Wastewater Collection Systems:

• Collection Systems - Municipal Industrial.
• System Cleaning and Maintenance.
• Underground Repair and New Construction.
• Lift Stations.
• Equipment Maintenance and Safety Issues.

Unit 3: Conventional Wastewater Treatment Systems:

• Waste Treatment Ponds.
• Racks.
• Screens.
• Comminutors.
• Grit Removal.
• Sedimentation.
• Flotation.
• Trickling Filters.
• Rotating Biological Contactors.
• Activated Sludge Plants.
• Waste Treatment Ponds.
• Disinfection and Chlorination.
• Sludge Digestion and Solids Handling.
• Plant Safety.
• Plant Maintenance.
• Laboratory Procedures and Chemistry.
• Calculations - Analysis - Records.
• Odor Control.
• Activated Sludge and Support Systems.
• Instrumentation and Waste Monitoring.

Unit 4: Industrial Wastewater :

• Nature of Waste Water from different Industries.
• Monitoring Techniques.
• API Separators.
• Conventional Industrial Treatment Systems.
• Panic Ponds.
• Chemical Treatment.
• Customized Activated Sludge.
• Petrochemical Waste Water - Special Considerations.

Unit 5: Industrial Municipal Wastewater Reclamation Strategy:

• The Problem.
• The Systematic Study of the Problem.
• The Pilot Plant Techniques.
• Study for your Waste Water,
• Preparing Chemical Resistant Activated Sludge.
• Pilot Plant Results Analysis.
• Scaling Up.
• Design of Waste Water Treatment and Reclamation Plants.
• Ion Exchange Softeners.
• Finishing Treatment for Reclaimed Water.
• Special Chemical Additives for particular reuse applications.
• Monitoring and Operation of Reclamation Facilities.
• Special Precautions, Problems, and Solutions with Reclaimed Water use.