Waste Water Treatment detailed syllabus for Chemical Engineering (CE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the CE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Chemical Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit CE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to CE Professional Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of waste water treatment is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
WASTE WATER TREATMENT AN OVERVIEW 9
Terminology – Regulations – Health and Environment Concerns in waste water management -Constituents in waste water; inorganic, Organic and heavy metal constituents.
Unit II
CHEMICAL UNIT PROCESSES 9
Role of unit processes in waste water treatment- Principles of Chemical treatment – Coagulation -flocculation- Precipitation-flotation – solidification and stabilization -disinfection
Unit III
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Unit IV
TREATMENT METHODS 9
Activated Sludge process and variations, Sequencing Batch reactors, Membrane Biological Reactors-Trickling Filters- RBC-Moving Bed Reactors- fluidized bed reactors, aerated lagoons, waste stabilization ponds- Design of units – UASB, up flow filters, Fluidized beds MBR, septic tank and disposal
Unit V
ADVANCED WASTE WATER TREATMENT 9
Technologies used in advanced treatment – Classification of technologies- Removal of Colloids and suspended particles- Membrane Filtration – Ion Exchange – Advanced oxidation process -Zero liquid Discharge. – Software Applications
Course Outcomes:
On completion of the course, the students will be able to
- Understand the Physical and chemical Characteristics of wastewater and their measurement.
- Understand the various pollutant treatment techniques.
- Understand the concepts using biological treatment methods
- Analyze the reactors used for various treatment techniques
- Understand the membrane based electrochemical process for pollutant treatment.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Casey, T.J., Unit Treatment Processes in Water and Wastewater Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
- Metcalf & Eddy, Inc. Wastewater Engineering – Treatment, Disposal, and Reuse, Fourth Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill, 1995. 14
- Cheremisinoff, P.N., Handbook of water and wastewater technologies, BH Publications, 2002.
- Sincero, P.A., and Sincero, A.G., Physical Chemical treatment of water and wastewater, IWA Publications, 2002.
- Spellman, R.F., Handbook of water and wastewater treatment plant operations, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Publications, 2009.
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