CE 428 Water and Wastewater Treatment Design
Spring 2005
Objectives:
 physical, chemical and biological processes for the treatment of water and
wastewater
 design of water and wastewater treatment plants
Instructor:
Say Kee Ong
Room 486 Town
Tel: 294-3927
e-mail: skong@iastate.edu
Time:
Office Hrs:
MWF
Monday
8 - 8:50 am
2 - 4 pm
Course Requirements:
Homework
Projects (2 projects)
Presentations/Questions
Quizzes (2 quizzes)
Book:
 Wastewater Engineering Treatment and Reuse, Metcalf and Eddy
Other useful books:
 Recommended Standards for Wastewater Facilities, 1990 Edition, Health
Education Services
 Recommended Standards for Water Works, 1992, Health Education Services
 Water Quality and Treatment, 5th Edition, AWWA
 Theory and Practice of Water and Wastewater Treatment, 1997,
R.L. Droste, Wiley and Sons.
 Wastewater Treatment Plants, Planning, Design and Operations, Qasim
 Water Supply and Sewerage, 6th Edition, McGhee
 Unit Operations and Processes in Environmental Engineering, Reynolds and
Richards
Student presentation:
All students are required to teach or give a presentation of about 15 minutes on a
selected topic. The topics will be assigned as listed. All other students are required to
read the required chapter or section and ask at least one question.
10%
50%
10%
30%
Week
Dates
Topics
1
Jan 10
Jan 12
Jan 14
Project Planning/Regulations/Water Quality Parameters
Water Quality Parameters/SDWA
Wastewater characteristics/flow/flow diagrams
2
Jan 17
Jan 19
Jan 21
Holiday
Screens/Equalization basin
Gravity Separation Theory/ Sedimentation/
Student presentation - ideal sedimentation tank
Jan 24
Jan 26
Sedimentation/Grit Chambers
Primary settling basins/
Student presentation - grit chamber
Activated Sludge/
5-6
5-7
Activated sludge (equations)/
Student presentation - F/M, HRT/SRT
Activated sludge
7-5. 7-6, 8-1 to 84
7-5. 7-6, 8-1 to 84
5-11, 5-12
3
Jan 28
4
Jan 31
Feb 2
Feb 4
Aeration/Mass transfer/
Student presentation - mass transfer
Reading
Assignment
Notes, 1-2
Naotes, 2
2, 3, 7-1
5-1, 5-3
5-5
7-5, 7-6, 8-1 to 84
5
Feb 7
Feb 9
Feb 11
Trickling filters /
Trickling filters/RBC
Other Processes/nitrification/denitrification/phosphorus
removal/ Student presentation - nitrification/denitrification
7-7, 9-1 to 9-2
9-1 to 9-2, 9-3
7-9 to 7-11, 8-5 to
8-6, 6-4
6
Feb 14
Feb 16
Secondary clarifiers
Secondary clarifiers/
Student presentation - micropollutants
Biosolids Regulations
8-7
8-7
Stabilization/Biosolids treatment (anaerobic)/
Student presentation - stabilization
Biosolids treatment (aerobic and others)
Land Disposal of Biosolids
14-7 to 14-9
Notes
Notes
6-1 to 6-3, notes
Feb 18
7
Feb 21
Feb 23
Feb 25
14-1, 14-2
14-10
14-17
8
Feb 28
Mar 2
Mar 4
General Water Characteristics/Flow diagrams/
Pumping stations/Screens
Coagulation/
Student presentation - coagulation theory
9
Mar 7
Mar 9
Mar 11
Wastewater Plant Visit
Exam 1
10
Mar 14 –
18
Spring Break
11
Mar 21
Mar 23
Mar 25
Raid Mix/Coagulation
Flocculation
Flocculation/Sedimentation
Notes, 5-4
Notes, 5-4
Notes
12
Mar 28
Mar 30
Notes
Apr 1
Sedimentation
Filtration
Student presentation - head loss equation
Filtration
13
Apr 4
Apr 6
Apr 8
Filtration
Softening/student 9 presentation (softening equations)
Softening
Notes, 11-3, 11-4
Notes
Notes
14
Apr 11
Apr 13
Apr 15
Softening
Softening
Water Treatment Plant visit
Notes
Notes
15
Apr 18
Apr 20
Ion Exchange/Iron and manganese removal
Disinfection
Student presentation - disinfection
Disinfection
Notes
12-1 to 12-3, 12-9
Notes, 11-6
Apr 27
Apr 29
Reverse Osmosis/ultrafiltration/
Student presentation - membrane processes
Carbon adsorption
Catch up
May 2
Finals
Apr 21
16
17
Apr 25
Notes, 11-3, 11-4
Notes, 11-7