Wastewater Treatment Processes and Design Course

Learn wastewater process design covering characterisation, primary and biological treatment, nutrients, clarification, disinfection and sludge.

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Wastewater Treatment Processes and Design Course

Training Outlines

Introduction

Wastewater treatment must reliably convert variable hydraulic and organic loads into compliant effluent while controlling energy, sludge and operational risk. Sound design requires process mass balances, realistic kinetics and an understanding of how units interact under normal and upset conditions.

This five-day course equips environmental, process and civil engineers to design and evaluate municipal wastewater-treatment systems. Participants will characterise influent, size physical and biological processes, assess nutrient removal, clarification, disinfection and sludge handling, and diagnose operational problems. A complete treatment-train design forms the capstone exercise.

Objectives

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

Characterise wastewater flows and loads.
Apply process mass balances.
Size preliminary and primary treatment.
Design biological-treatment processes.
Evaluate nutrient-removal strategies.
Design clarification and disinfection.
Plan sludge treatment and handling.
Diagnose treatment-process performance.

Course Content

Day 1: Wastewater Characterisation and Design Basis

Flow variation and design loads
Physical, chemical and biological parameters
BOD, COD, solids and nutrients
Sampling and data validation
Mass balances and treatment objectives
Design-basis workshop

Day 2: Preliminary and Primary Treatment

Screening and grit removal
Flow equalisation
Primary sedimentation
Hydraulic and solids loading
Odour and septicity control
Primary-process design exercise

Day 3: Biological Treatment

Microbial growth and substrate removal
Activated-sludge process configurations
Solids retention and sludge age
Aeration and oxygen transfer
Secondary clarification
Biological-design laboratory

Day 4: Nutrients and Advanced Treatment

Nitrification and denitrification
Biological phosphorus removal
Filtration and polishing
Disinfection technologies
Reuse-quality considerations
Advanced-treatment workshop

Day 5: Sludge and Process Optimisation

Sludge thickening and stabilisation
Dewatering and final management
Energy and resource recovery
Instrumentation and process control
Troubleshooting and performance optimisation
Capstone treatment-train design

Training Locations

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