RAPOSA, Audrey Dei O.

2010-62017
ChE 190 HUV
Paper Seminar 4: Wastewater Management (Mr. Ioannis Kalavrouziotis)
The speaker for the 3rd seminar was Mr. Ioannis Kalavrouziotis, an Agronomist-PhD in
Environmental Geochemistry, who is also an Associate Professor of Wastewater
Management and the Dean of the School of Science and Technology at the Hellenic
Open University in Patras, Greece. His talk consisted of two parts: the first part was
on Wastewater Management and the second one on The Technological Management
of Waster and wastewater in Ancient Greece. For the first part of his talk, he talked
about how water use, wastewater flow rates and characteristics, and sewage
systems are subjects of great importance for the proper design of a wastewater
treatment plant. As we can recall from Chemical Engineering 150, after entering the
wastewater treatment plant pre-treatment, as well as primary, secondary and
tertiary treatment, it should be ensured that suspended solids, organic carbon,
nitrogen, phosphorus, and excess biomass are sufficiently removed. The
understanding in depth of basic physiochemical (screening, grit removal, fat and
grease removal, odor control, coagulation-flocculation, sedimentation) and
biological (biomass growth, kinetics, aerobic organic carbon degradation,
nitrification-denitrification, phosphorus removal, anaerobic digestion) processes is
significant for students and trained staff who wish to get deeper involved in
wastewater management. Finally, a discussion about the disposal of treated effluent
and sludge treatment and disposal provides an integrated approach of wastewater
management. He then proceeded in discussing water scarcity. This problem already
affects every continent. Around 1.2 billion people