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Applied Drinking Water Quality
Code
SE-ADW1
Version
3.0
Offered by
Supply Engineering
ECTS
5
Prerequisites
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
Evaluation
Examination
Exam prerequisites:
None
Type of exam:
Individual oral exam 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 12:00:00 AM
Course type
Electives
6. semester
Compulsory for the specialization Water Supply
Keywords
drinking water quality, sampling and laboratory analyses, reporting of experimental data