Advanced Water Treatment

Code

SE-AWT1

Version

2.0

Offered by

Supply Engineering

ECTS

Prerequisites

Completion of semester 1-4 in Climate and Supply Engineering or similar.

Main purpose

Through information retrieval, discussions, presentations and laboratory exercises to provide the student with knowledge in and hands-on experience with current topics related to drinking water quality. The focus will be on drinking water treatment methods more advanced than the traditional aeration and bio-sand filter.
The methods may be filtration, sorption, precipitation, disinfection, etc.

Knowledge

- Describe various aspects of deterioration of drinking water quality (physical, chemical and micro-biological)
- Describe different contamination scenarios
- Have knowledge of drinking water quality criteria (Danish/European drinking water legislation, and supplemental parameters)
- Understand principles of drinking water sampling
- Understand principles of drinking water analyses (physical, chemical and microbiological)
- Understand the use of extended water treatment methods

Skills

- Sample and characterize drinking water samples with respect to physical, chemical and microbiological parameters
- Obtain and evaluate empirical data from laboratory experiments
- Report results from laboratory analyses
- Compare and evaluate the application of physical, chemical and microbiological drinking water analyses
- Retrieve relevant information on current topics related to drinking water quality such as softening, pesticides, etc.
- Extract and evaluate data of drinking water analyses from the Jupiter database

Competences

- Analyze a situation with undesirable drinking water quality including: How to collect data and select the appropriate analyses, How to cope with the consumers and the legislation, etc.
- Design methods for advanced drinking water treatment depending on a given water types chemical composition and challenges.
- Design laboratory experiments to analyse the applicability of a proposed treatment method.
- Economic assessment of proposed methods.

Topics

The specific topics (treatment methods) will be decided in the beginning of the course depending on relevance and actuality. A written report must be handed in for all chosen topics.

Teaching methods and study activities

Lectures and seminars.
Production of 3-5 reports based on the chosen topics.
Presentations made by students.
Individual information retrieval, laboratory work, data analysis, discussions in groups assisted by the lecturer, self-study, homework assignments.
137.5 hours of work for the student.

Resources

Peer reviewed papers depending on topics.
Databases such as PC-Jupiter
Søborg, D. and Glab. A. 2018. Laboratory practicals.

Evaluation

Examination

Exam prerequisites:
None

Type of exam:
Individual oral exam, 20 minutes, with an internal examiner.
Exam is without preparation and based upon course assignment(s) (Experimental reports) handed in before deadline and accepted.
Course assignments account for 50% of final grade.
Exam accounts for 50% of final grade.

Tools allowed:
N/A

Re-exam:
Equal to the ordinary exam.

Grading criteria

Grading based on the Danish 7 point scale.

Additional information

Responsible

Henrik Bjørn

Valid from

01-08-2023 00:00