Unit Processes in Water and Wastewater Treatment

Mathematical descriptions of processes. Reactions. Kinetics. Reactor hydraulics. Physical, chemical and biological unit processes which are applied in water and wastewater treatment. Structure and use of unit processes. Modelling of water and wastewater treatment plants. Description of chemical and biological transformations in water and wastewater systems.

Knowledge
Students gain knowledge about:
- Descripton of treatment processes with mathematics, reactions, kinetics and hydraulics
- Physical, chemical and microbiological unit processes to be used in water and wastewater treatment
- Combination of unit processes
- Modeling of water treatment plants and wastewater treatment plants
- Chemical and biological processes in water and wastewater networks.

Skills
Students can:
- Use matemathical models for water treatment proceses.

General competence
Students understand:
- Unit processes for water and wastewater treatment
- International trends and methods for management of treatment plants.

Lectures combined with assignments and laboratory exercises partially done in groups. If there is a re-sit examination, the examination form may be changed from written to oral.