Wastewater and Sludge Treatment
Abwasser- und Schlammbehandlung
6 CPWinterEN
Contents
Anthropogenic pollutants: • Pollutants - kinds, environmental an health effects, pollutants transport/natural degradation Sewage treatment: • History of sewage treatment Methods in sewage treatment: • Sedimentation, flotation, sieving and filtration, chemical treatment (neutralization, flocculation and precipitation, oxidation and reduction processes, electrochemical processes), biological processes (aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation, biological nitrogen and phosphorus elimination) Technologies in sewage treatment: • Coarse cleaning by screens and rakes, micro-sieving, sedimentation processes: Grid chamber, preliminary sedimentation and secondary settling, flotation processes: Oil and fat trapping, light density material collector, flocculation filtration, biological sewage treatment: The activated sludge process, fixed bed reactors, treatment plant design, combined technologies in industrial water treatment, • Sewage sludge treatment, thickener, sludge conditioning, sludge dewatering, sludge recycling, land application, composting, innovative technologies for sludge reuse
Learning outcomes
At the end of the module the student are able to understand the basic processes of process engineering in waste water sludge treatment.
Assessment
Written examination, 120 min.
Literature (2)
- Wastewater Treatment. Biological and Chemical Process: Biological and Chemical Processes (Environmental Engineering), Mogens Henze (Autor), Poul Harremoes (Autor), Jes LaCour Jansen (Autor), Springer Verlag 2002
- Biological Wastewater Treatment, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, C. P. Leslie, JR. Grady, Glen T. Daigger, und Henry C., Marcel Dekker Ltd , 1999
Source: BTU's module description · retrieved 29 Sep 2026Original