Learning Results
1. Identify the current sources of drinking water, recognize the problems of availability and quality of water and identify alternative sources.
2. Know the quantitative and qualitative characterization of drinking water.
3. Enumerate and describe the physical, chemical and microbiological parameters to evaluate the water quality of an ecosystem, water supply and the applicable legal requirements.
4. Know the different analytical methods applicable to the control of water quality.
5. Know the unit operations and unit processes on water treatment plant (WTP) and explain the mechanisms involved in the treatments.
6. Know the parameters and design criteria and integrate them in the simple design of the operations addressed.
7. Know the treatment and final disposal of sludge generated in a WTP
Program
1. The natural sources of water, territorial allocation and scarcity. Importance of preservation and sustainable use of water and the need to search for alternative sources.
2. Environmental monitoring. Water quality. Applicable legal framework.
3. Quantitative, microbiological, and physicochemical characteristics.
4. Physicochemical parameters for water quality assessment.
5. Main analytical methods for water quality assessment: gravimetric, volumetric and instrumental methods – potentiometry, molecular spectrophotometry visible/ultraviolet (U.V.), flame atomic absorption and graphite camera. Interferences and elimination methods. Quantitative analysis. Equipment.
6. Principles and general layout of a WTP.
7. Water treatment – unit operations and unit processes: screening, sieving, de-sanding, neutralization, coagulation-flocculation, softening by chemical precipitation, filtration, adsorption, ionic exchange, disinfection, chemical oxidation. Dimensioning in WTP.
8. Sludge treatment: dewatering and final disposal.
Internship(s)
NAO
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Sawyer, C.N., McCarty, P.L., 2002. Chemistry for Environmental Engineering, 5ª ed., McGraw-Hill Book
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