Water Treatment

This equivalency course replaces the following course from the old master programme: CIE4703-19. It is equivalent to parts of the module ENVM1600 in the new MSc Environmental Engineering programme. Please see the study guide description of ENVM1600 and the information below. Please contact the responsible lecturer at the start of the module for registration and additional information.

The course deals with background and application of water treatment techniques of the urban water cycle (drinking water en wastewater). Both high/tech and low tech systems are discussed, which are applicable in industrialized and developing countries. Lectures, a modeling practical, home assignments and excursions are part of this course.

Water treatment is needed to provide humans with water of sufficient quality to use it safely for purposes ranging from drinking to industry and to avoid pollution of the living environment.

The lecture series covers:

• Anaerobic digestion: slurry digestion and high-rate anaerobic treatment

• Aerobic sludge: flocculent and attached (granules) growth

• Biofiltration

• Pressure-driven membranes (reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration)

• (Bio) sand filtration

• Ozone, chlorine, H2O2 and UV

• Electro(photo)chemical oxidation

• Activated carbon, GAC/ PAC/PACAS

• Ion exchange

• Resource recovery from sludge-based systems

Additionally, a Biowin and Wave modelling exercise are offered and an excursion to a water and wastewater treatment plant.