Advanced Water Treatment

Code

SE-AWT1

Version

1.0

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.

Study Activity Model

According to the Study Activity Model, the workload is divided as follows:
Category 1, Initiated by the lecturer with the participation of lecturer and students: 10%
Category 2: Initiated by lecturer with participation of students: 75%
Category 3: Initiated by students with participation of students: 10%
Category 4: Initiated by students with the participation of lecturer and students: 5%

Resources

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

Evaluation

Examination

Prerequisites:
Course assignments handed in before deadline.

Type of examination:
Individual oral exam without preparation based upon course assignments.
The exam is in the form of an internal assessment.

Allowed tools:
All tools allowed

Re-exams:

Grading criteria

Grading based on the Danish 7 point scale.

Based on 1. Experimental reports (account for 50%) 2. Oral examination in reports (account for 50%)