CE151: Water and Wastewater Engineering
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Vermont
Spring 2015
Instructor: Huijie Lu, Assistant Professor
Office: Votey 213E, email: huijie.lu@uvm.edu, tel: (802) 656-4571
Teaching assistant: Mengfei Li, Graduate Student
Office: Perkins 206, email: mli12@uvm.edu
Time and Location: MWF
1:55 - 2:45pm, Angell B112
Course Website: UVM Blackboard
Lecture materials, homework assignment and solutions, supplementary materials,
design project, grades.
Office Hours: Every Friday 10am-12pm in Votey 213E or by appointment (instructor)
Required Textbook (available on course reserve):
Water and Wastewater Engineering by Mackenzie Davis (First Ed., 2010)
Recommended Readings (available on course reserve):
Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery by George Tchobanoglous,
David Stensel, Ryujiro Tsuchihashi and Franklin Burton (Fifth Ed. 2013. TD645. M57 2014
v.1&2)
Other Materials:
Lecture notes, homework, design project and additional reading materials will be posted
on the course website or distributed in class.
Course Description:
Catalog Description: Fundamentals and design of sustainable systems for water supply,
domestic and industrial wastewater treatment, soil and groundwater remediation; semesterlong design projects; energy and resource recovery.
The goal of this course is to provide students with the fundamental understanding of
water and wastewater engineering, as well as the methods involved in quantitative sustainable
design and operation of treatment processes. Students will learn physical, chemical and
biological principles governing the design of conventional and emerging treatment
technologies, including coagulation-flocculation-sedimentation, filtration, ion exchange,
disinfection, activated sludge process, biofilm and anaerobic treatment etc. This course also
encourages students to integrate sustainability strategies, such as greenhouse mitigation,
energy saving and resource recovery into the design and practice of water and wastewater
treatment.
Course Objectives:
At the successful completion of this course students will:
1. Understand the physical, chemical and biological principles governing typical water and
wastewater treatment processes.
2. Have the ability to design either a complete water treatment or wastewater treatment
process to meet a water quality target.
3. Have the ability to suggest process design and diagnose common operating problems in
the treatment of water, wastewater and biosolids.
4. Understand sustainability challenges in water/wastewater engineering in relation to
energy, resource and water reuse.
Design Project:
The design project will focus on using simulation packages such as SuperPro Designer ®
(Intelligen, Inc.) and BioWinTM (EnviroSimAssociates), to mediate water/wastewater treatment
modeling and design. Students are encouraged to incorporate energy recovery, nutrient
recovery or water reclamation units in conventional treatment processes. A group report with
clearly stated objectives, design parameters, simulation results and sustainability assessment
are required by the end of the course.
Grading Policy:
Homework: 20% (8 homework assignments and 1 group presentation)
Classroom participation and random quizzes: 10%
Mid-term exam: 25% (closed-book, 1h in-class)
Final exam: 25% (take-home)
Design Project: 20% (1 final report)
1. Please submit your homework assignments in class (Fridays), to the instructor’s mailbox
in Votey 103, or email a scanned copy to the TA before the due time.
2. Homework assignments will be graded and returned 1 week after the due date in class.
Answers to homework assignments can be found on Blackboard on the same day.
3. Late homework submission: max 5 late days/semester with maximum allocation of 2
late days/assignment are allowed without penalty. The penalty for “true” late
assignment (>5 late days/semester or >2 late days/assignment) is 1% of your FINAL
grade per late day.
4. Grading scales:
http://www.uvm.edu/~rgweb/?Page=gradesandtranscripts/g_grades.html&SM=g_men
u.html
5. UVM honor code
http://www.uvm.edu/medicine/mededucation/enews/documents/UVM%20Honor%20
Code%20FINAL.pdf
Schedule of lectures (subject to minor changes):
Week
1
2
3
4
Date
1/12
1/14
1/16
1/19
1/21
1/23
1/26
1/28
1/30
2/2
2/4
2/6
Topic
Course introduction, sustainability, global water issues
Water quality I
Water quality II
**Martin Luther King Day, No Class**
Water quality III
Regulations and standards of treatment
Chemical and biological reactions
Reactor basics
Mass balance
Overview of water treatment process
Coagulation
Flocculation
Home
work
Due date
HW1
1/30
HW2
2/6
HW3
2/13
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
13
14
12
15
16
17
18
2/9
2/11
2/13
2/16
2/18
2/20
2/23
2/25
2/27
3/2-6
3/9
3/11
3/13
3/16
3/18
3/20
3/23
3/25
3/27
3/30
4/1
4/3
Sedimentation
Design of coagulation–flocculation-sedimentation process
Water softening
**Presidents Day, No Class**
Ion exchange
Granular filtration
Membrane filtration
Disinfection
Reverse osmosis and nanofiltration
**Spring Recess, No Class**
Mid-term review
Mid-term exam
Overview of wastewater treatment processes
Preliminary and primary treatment
Wastewater microbiology
Kinetics and stoichiometry
Activated sludge process, I
Activated sludge process, II
Field trip to local water treatment facility
Nitrogen and phosphorus removal
Quiz 2; Attached growth
Other wastewater treatment technologies
4/6
4/8
4/10
4/13
4/15
4/17
Industrial wastewater and groundwater remediation
Biosolids treatment and regulations
Anaerobic digestion
Sustainability topics in Water/Wastewater engineering, I
Sustainability topics in Water/Wastewater engineering, II
Sustainability topics in Water/Wastewater engineering, III
4/20
4/22
4/24
Design project and software demo, I
Design project and software demo, II
Design project and software demo, III
4/27-29
5/1
5/8
**Design Project and final exam, No Class**
Final exam (take-home) due
Final project due
HW4
2/20
HW5
2/27
HW6
3/13
HW7
3/27
HW8
4/10
15 min group
presentation
Graded as two
homework
Final
exam
4/174/24