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May 06, 2024
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WTRQ 2210 - Wastewater Treatment I
Credit hours: 3
Course Description:
This course provides an overview of the physical, chemical and biological methods and processes used for treating municipal wastewater, emphasizing equipment operation and maintenance. This course includes required field experience at local wastewater treatment facilities.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
- Relate broad concepts, principles, and theory pertaining to methods and regulatory requirements for treating municipal wastewaters.
- Sketch and label spatial and functional relationships among wastewater treatment system components.
- Explain how wastewater treatment components relate functionally to final effluent quality.
- Explain methods used for controlling wastewater treatment processes by manipulating levels of activated sludge return rate, dissolved oxygen, and pH.
- Explain reasons and methods for disinfecting a wastewater treatment plant’s final effluent before release.
- Compare, contrast, and report on operations similarities and differences at multiple locally accessible wastewater treatment plants through on-site visits and staff interviews.
- Describe causes and consequences for specific wastewater treatment plant failures.
- Compare, and contrast, and report on maintenance wastewater treatment plant operational procedures at selected local water-treatment systems.
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