Online Course on Biological Wastewater Treatment: Principles, Modelling and Design
For whom?
Sanitary engineers, (environmental) biotechnologists, biochemists, civil engineers, environmental engineers, chemists, environmental scientists and different professionals working or interested in the wastewater treatment field.
Dates, Fee, ECTS
Start: 09 January 2017
End: 21 June 2017
Deadline IHE application: 23 December 2016 - 23.59 (CET)
Course fee: € 1000
Learning objectives
Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- Upon successful completion of the course, the latest approaches on design, operation, modeling and simulation of wastewater treatment processes (such as activated sludge, biological nitrogen or phosphorus removal, secondary settling tanks, membrane bioreactors, or biofilm systems) can be embraced with deeper insight and greater confidence.
Over the past years, the knowledge and understanding of biological wastewater treatment has advanced extensively and moved away from empirically-based approaches to a fundamentally-based 'first principles' approach that embraces (bio-)chemistry, microbiology, physical and bioprocess engineering, and mathematics.
Many of these advances have matured to a degree that they have been codified into mathematical models able to describe and simulate diverse scenarios under different environmental conditions at either steady or dynamic state. For a new generation of new scientists and engineers entering the wastewater treatment profession, the quantity, complexity and diversity of these new developments can be overwhelming, particularly to those from developing countries where access is not readily available to advanced courses in wastewater treatment.
The main purpose of this online course is to address the deficient access to the knowledge by offering a broad and thorough overview on (conventional and innovative) biological wastewater treatment processes and practices. It assembles and integrates postgraduate course material of different professors from leading research groups around the world that have made significant contributions to the latest advances in biological wastewater treatment technologies which range from biological organic matter, nutrient and pathogen removal to membrane bioreactors (MBR), innovative nitrogen removal technologies and mathematical modeling of activated sludge and biofilm systems.
The online module on biological wastewater treatment consists of more than 40 hours of video-recorded lectures by the author professors compiled into a DVD package available to those registered in the online course, the text book of the same name of the course published by IWA publishing, lecture handouts, and tutorial exercises for student's self study.
Course content
- Wastewater Treatment Development
- Microbial Metabolism
- Wastewater Characterization
- Organic Matter Removal
- Nitrogen Removal
- Innovative Nitrogen Removal
- Phosphorus Removal
- Pathogen Removal
- Aeration and Mixing
- Toxicity
- Bulking Sludge
- Final Settling
- Membrane Bio-reactors
- Modelling Activated Sludge Processes
- Process Control
- Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment
- Modelling Biofilms
- Biofilm Reactors
Additional information
The course fee includes access to the course materials as well as individual guidance and mentoring during the course. The maximum number of participants is 20. A reliable and reasonably fast (ideally 512 kbps) internet connection is necessary.
The course material is also provided as a package including more than 40 hours of video materials on a DVD and the hardcopy of the book Biological Wastewater Treatment: Principles, Design and Modelling, edited by M. Henze, M.C.M. van Loosdrecht, G.A. Ekama and D. Brdjanovic (2008). IWA Publishing, ISBN 13: 9781843391883, pp. 526. The book is also used for teaching as part of a lecture series in the Sanitary Engineering specialization of the UNESCO-IHE’s Masters Program in Urban Water and Sanitation.
Upon successful completion of the course participants will receive a Course Certificate issued by UNESCO-IHE.