Key words
Water Management
Objectives
Theoretical and practical treatment of all aspects in the domain water, the European instructions regarding water.
Insight in integral water management: collecting and using rain water, infiltration techniques, gaining + preparing drinking water; wastewater streams, treatment strategies and technologies etc.
The student, having learnes certain strategies and using formulas mentioned in the reference book, must be capable of developing a water treatment design/proposal. In the exercises, the student learns to work with small scale treatment plants (IBA's).
Visits to RWZI's (Gent, Eke), WZI's (Cornby), KWZI (De Pinte) and IBA's are necessary.
Topics
The medium water
The European water instructions
Gaining and treating drinking water
Collection and use of rain water, infiltration techniques
Parameters of water pollution
Measuring technologies
Causes of water pollution: population, industry, farming, etc.
Wastewater treatment technologies:
- a survey of primary treatment techniques; flotation, neutralisation etc..
- secondary or biological wastewater treatment: active sludge systems, trickling filters submerged earated filter, etc...
- tertiary treatment: removal of phosphor and nitrogen.
- disinfections, membrane processes etc
Prerequisites
Microbiological and biological aspects of wastewater treatment (see: 2nd year course microbial ecology, course environmental biology) and physico-chemical basics (needed for dimensioning physical, chemical and physico-chemical purification techniques).
Final Objectives
Materials used
Lectures: Reference book 'Water'
Extra hand-outs:
Brochures about
Exercises: infrastructure of the labs
Study costs
Reference book 'Water' : 25 euro
Brochure VMM: free
Hand-outs: 5 euro
Study guidance
Teacher at one's disposal in the microbiology lab
Teaching Methods
Lectures
Slides
Exercises
Assessment
Max.: 120 points
Theory: 90 points
Written exam (open book): dimensioning and application of formulas for designing WZI's and KWZI's.
Practical questions
Oral exam (preparation on paper): wastewater treatment, drinking water, rain water; infiltration, water management decrees.
exercises: 30 points
Continuing assessment during the academic year + case study
Lecturer(s)
Chris Vlerick
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