Design of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants detailed syllabus for Environmental Engineering (Env) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Env 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 Environmental Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Env 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to Env Professional Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of design of water and wastewater treatment plants is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT Pollutants in water and wastewater – characteristics – treatment processes – Selection criteria-types of reactors – kinetics – Unit operations and unit processes- – screening, skimming, floatation – mixing, equalization, sedimentation, filtration – gas transfer -adsorption – Isotherms -membrane separation, neutralization – coagulation flocculation -precipitation – stabilization – disinfection, Ion exchange – advanced oxidation processes.
Unit II
DESIGN OF WATER TREATMENT PLANTS Design of treatment plant units – selection of process – upgrading existing plants – aerators – chemical feeding – Flash mixer- Clariflocculator – lamella and plate settlers— filters – rapid sand filters, pressure filter, dual media filters-Multimedia filters – disinfectors- design of softeners – demineralization plant -reverse osmosis plants.
Unit III
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Unit IV
DESIGN OF ADVANCED WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS Design of sequencing batch reactors- moving bed biofilm reactors- membrane bioreactorreclamation and reuse of wastewater – application of membrane separation technologies in reuse of sewage -nutrient removal systems- UASB – post treatment systems for UASB reactor-anaerobic filters -recent trends.
Unit V
RESIDUAL MANAGEMENT OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ASPECTS Characteristics of sludge from WTP and STP-Design of sludge management facilities for WTP and STP-sludge thickening-sludge digestion- design of anaerobic digester-biogas generation- sludge dewatering -filter press – centrifugation– sludge drying beds – construction, operation and Maintenance aspects of WTP and STP – trouble shooting – capacity building, case studies of Retrofitting.
Course Outcomes:
On completion of the course, the student is expected to be able to
- Understand the principle of water and wastewater treatment
- Design and sizing the different components of water treatment plant.
- Design of conventional wastewater treatment units
- understand in detail about the design of advanced wastewater treatment units
- design the different elements of sludge treatment systems and understand the importance O&M issues pertaining to WTP and STP
Reference Books:
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