CE 428 Water and Wastewater Treatment Design

Spring 2005
Objectives:

physical, chemical and biological processes for the treatment of water and
wastewater
design of water and wastewater treatment plants

Instructor:

Say Kee Ong

Room 486 Town

Tel: 294-3927

e-mail: skong@iastate.edu

Time:
Office Hrs:

MWF
Monday

8 - 8:50 am
2 - 4 pm

Course Requirements:

Homework
Projects (2 projects)
Presentations/Questions
Quizzes (2 quizzes)

Book:

Wastewater Engineering Treatment and Reuse, Metcalf and Eddy

Other useful books:

Recommended Standards for Wastewater Facilities, 1990 Edition, Health

Education Services
Recommended Standards for Water Works, 1992, Health Education Services
Water Quality and Treatment, 5th Edition, AWWA
Theory and Practice of Water and Wastewater Treatment, 1997,
R.L. Droste, Wiley and Sons.
Wastewater Treatment Plants, Planning, Design and Operations, Qasim
Water Supply and Sewerage, 6th Edition, McGhee
Unit Operations and Processes in Environmental Engineering, Reynolds and
Richards

Student presentation:

All students are required to teach or give a presentation of about 15 minutes on a

selected topic. The topics will be assigned as listed. All other students are required
to read the required chapter or section and ask at least one question.

10%
50%
10%
30%

Week

Dates

Topics

Jan 10
Jan 12
Jan 14

Project Planning/Regulations/Water Quality Parameters

Water Quality Parameters/SDWA
Wastewater characteristics/flow/flow diagrams

Jan 17
Jan 19
Jan 21

Holiday
Screens/Equalization basin
Gravity Separation Theory/ Sedimentation/
Student presentation - ideal sedimentation tank

Jan 24
Jan 26

Sedimentation/Grit Chambers
Primary settling basins/
Student presentation - grit chamber
Activated Sludge/

5-6
5-7

Feb 2

Activated sludge (equations)/

Student presentation - F/M, HRT/SRT
Activated sludge

Feb 4

Aeration/Mass transfer/

7-5. 7-6, 8-1 to 84

7-5. 7-6, 8-1 to 84
5-11, 5-12

Jan 28
4

Jan 31

Reading
Assignment
Notes, 1-2
Naotes, 2
2, 3, 7-1
5-1, 5-3
5-5

7-5, 7-6, 8-1 to 84

Student presentation - mass transfer

5

Feb 7
Feb 9
Feb 11

Trickling filters /
Trickling filters/RBC
Other Processes/nitrification/denitrification/phosphorus
removal/ Student presentation - nitrification/denitrification

7-7, 9-1 to 9-2

9-1 to 9-2, 9-3
7-9 to 7-11, 8-5 to
8-6, 6-4

Feb 14
Feb 16

Secondary clarifiers
Secondary clarifiers/
Student presentation - micropollutants
Biosolids Regulations

8-7
8-7

Stabilization/Biosolids treatment (anaerobic)/

Student presentation - stabilization
Biosolids treatment (aerobic and others)
Land Disposal of Biosolids

14-7 to 14-9

Notes
Notes
6-1 to 6-3, notes

Feb 18
7

Feb 21
Feb 23
Feb 25

14-1, 14-2

14-10
14-17

Feb 28
Mar 2
Mar 4

General Water Characteristics/Flow diagrams/

Pumping stations/Screens
Coagulation/
Student presentation - coagulation theory

Mar 7
Mar 9
Mar 11

Wastewater Plant Visit

Exam 1

10

Mar 14
18

Spring Break

11

Mar 21
Mar 23
Mar 25

Raid Mix/Coagulation
Flocculation
Flocculation/Sedimentation

Notes, 5-4
Notes, 5-4
Notes

12

Mar 28
Mar 30

Notes

Apr 1

Sedimentation
Filtration
Student presentation - head loss equation
Filtration

13

Apr 4
Apr 6
Apr 8

Filtration
Softening/student 9 presentation (softening equations)
Softening

Notes, 11-3, 11-4

Notes
Notes

14

Apr 11
Apr 13
Apr 15

Softening
Softening
Water Treatment Plant visit

Notes
Notes

15

Apr 18
Apr 20

Ion Exchange/Iron and manganese removal

Disinfection
Student presentation - disinfection
Disinfection

Notes
12-1 to 12-3, 12-9

Notes, 11-6

Apr 27
Apr 29

Reverse Osmosis/ultrafiltration/
Student presentation - membrane processes
Carbon adsorption
Catch up

May 2

Finals

Apr 21
16

17

Apr 25

Notes, 11-3, 11-4

Notes, 11-7