Course details
€2250
J.P. Buiteman, MSc
Can be held at UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands, or at a venue requested by the client.
27 April 2009
15 May 2009
3 weeks
5
27 March 2009
01 November 2008
01 January 2009
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Water Treatment Processes and Plants
Brief description
This short course offers participants the opportunity to creatively apply their knowledge and experience in water quality and water treatment methods in design and engineering, operation and maintenance, and rehabilitation of conventional water treatment processes and plants.
Learning objectives
On the conclusion of this course, participants should be able:
- to critically analyse water quality data and to select the most attractive raw water resource;
- to design and engineer a surface water intake and a water treatment plant;
- to execute plant performance studies and proposing improvements in order to rehabilitate the malfunctioning parts of the plant;
- to show professional know-how for operating (process & quality control, trouble shooting) and maintaining of manually and semi-automated water treatment plants.
Target group
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.
Additional information
The course covers the following subjects:
- Surface Water Collection & Storage: Direct intake: surface water resources, types of intake systems and structures, design and operational aspects, cost.
- Raw water reservoirs: functions, quality change, operation modes and design aspects, selective intake.
- Bank infiltration: types, quality aspects, treatment and cost. Artificial recharge.Design exercise: Raw water intake system.
- Water Treatment Processes and Plants: Raw and drinking water aspects, processes for groundwater and surface water, pre- and post treatment, Introduction to process/plant design. 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: Basic aspects of O&M, writing an operating annual and drafting a programme for preventive maintenance.
- Process & Quality Control: Basics of process control, examples of process control in water supply, designing of a measuring programme supporting the (daily) process- and quality control.
- Rehabilitation of Conventional Water Treatment Plants: Reasons for process/plant improvement, methods to evaluate the performance of existing conventional treatment plants, examples of technical solutions.
- Sludge Treatment & Disposal: Treatment of backwash water and sludge from coagulation units. Alternatives for disposal and re-use. Design of a sludge treatment process line.