Applied Drinking Water Quality

Code

SE-ADW1

Version

3.0

Offered by

Supply Engineering

ECTS

Prerequisites

For students not enrolled inVIAs Climate and Supply Engineering Programme: Basic knowledge of physical, chemical, and microbiological water quality and water treatment processes is recommended.

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.

Knowledge

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

Skills

- Collect samples for analysis of drinking water quality (water, backwash water and/or filter medium)
- Practice basic laboratory methods and equipment (pipettes, scales, dilution, calibration, safety)
- Perform laboratory analyses for documentation of drinking water quality (physical, chemical and microbiological parameters)
- Obtain and evaluate empirical data from laboratory experiments
- Report results from laboratory analyses in text, figures and tables
- Compare and evaluate the application of physical, chemical and microbiological drinking water analyses

Competences

- Analyze results of laboratory experiments, discuss the results and relate the results to the scientific papers and other literature
- 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.

Topics

Teaching methods and study activities

Individual information retrieval, laboratory work, data analysis, report writing, discussions in groups assisted by the lecturer, presentations, self-study, homework assignments.
137.5 hours of work for the student.

Resources

– Søborg, D. and Glab. A. 2019. Laboratory practicals.
– Bekendtgørelse om vandkvalitet og tilsyn med vandforsyningsanlæg - BEK nr 221 af 25/02/2025.
– Lipps WC, Braun-Howland EB, Baxter TE, eds. Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater. 24th ed. Washington DC: APHA Press; 2023.
– Latest standard operating procedures for sampling and analysis of drinking water.

Evaluation

Examination

Exam prerequisites:
None

Type of exam:
Individual oral exam, 20 minutes, with an internal examiner.
Exam is without preparation and based on Drinking Water Quality Report.
Report must be handed in before deadline.
Graded on the basis of an overall assessment of the submitted work as well as the individual’s performance during the exam.

Tools allowed:
N/A

Re-exam:
Equal to the ordinary exam.

Grading criteria

Grading based on the Danish 7 point scale

Additional information

Responsible

Ditte Andreasen Søborg (dans)

Valid from

2/1/2024 12:00 AM

Course type

Keywords

drinking water quality, sampling and laboratory analyses, reporting of experimental data