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Water Treatment Processes and Plants

This course offers participants the opportunity to creatively apply their knowledge and experience in water quality and water treatment methods. 

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2017

For whom?

Young professionals dealing with drinking water treatment plants, who are mainly employed in water authorities or consulting companies. Staff involved in education and training in the drinking water sector will also benefit from this course. The programme is particularly advised for specialists from developing and newly industrialised countries. 

Dates, Fee, ECTS

Start: 12 June 2017
End: 30 June 2017
Deadline IHE application: 12 May 2017 - 23.59 (CET)
Course fee: € 2850

Learning objectives

Upon completion, the participant should be able to:

  1. to creatively apply (gained) knowledge and experience regarding water quality and conventional treatment methods in design and engineering, operation & maintenance and rehabilitation of conventional water treatment processes and plants;
  2. to critically analyse water quality data and to select the most attractive raw water resource;
  3. to design and engineer a water treatment plant (conventional and advanced water treatment plants for both ground water and surface water treatment);
  4. to execute plant performance studies and to evaluate results, as well as to propose improvements in order to rehabilitate a malfunctioning plant;
  5. to show professional knowledge and know-how for operating (process & quality control, troubleshooting) and maintaining of manually and semi-automated water treatment plants;
  6. in addition participants' skills will be improved through aspects such as: problem solving, decision making, oral presentations, writing reports, working in small task forces.

Course content

The course covers the following subjects:

  • Water Treatment Processes and Plants: Raw water and drinking water quality aspects. Conventional treatment processes for groundwater and surface water. Introduction to process, plant and plant-site design.
  • Process modelling: Identification of model structure and parameters; integrated hydraulic, water quality models; use of the Stimela model for the design of drinking water plants.
  • Design exercise: Identification of water resources, comparison and evaluation of various treatment methods and processes for ground and surface water, calculation water demand, process design, calculation achieved drinking water quality, calculation of cost, engineering details.
  • Operation & Maintenance of Water Treatment Plants: Importance of adequate O&M, O&M of individual units, equipment and plants, trouble shooting, organising O&M, safety aspects, cost of O&M, O&M at plants in rural areas.
  • Process and Quality Control: Basics of process and quality control, water quality control during all steps of water supply system, integral quality control, organisation and cost of quality control.
  • Rehabilitation of Water Treatment Plants: Reasons for rehabilitation, execution of plant performance studies, proposals for process and plant improvement.