Written examination: 10 questions, 10 points each

Improvement of the grades B-E is allowed by repeating the exam with a prior arrangement with the teachers. The most recent exam result is always valid.

Obligatory:

• Chen, G.-H., Ekama, G. A., Loosdrecht, M. C. M. van, Brđanović, Damir. Biological wastewater treatment, principles, modelling and design. : , , s. ISBN 978-1-78906-035-5.
• Carlos M. Lopez-Vazquez; Brdjanovic Damir; Eveline I.P. Volcke; Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht; Di Wu; Guanghao Chen (Eds.). Biological Wastewater Treatment: Examples and Exercises. : IWA Publishing, 2023, s. ISBN 9781789062304.

Recommended:

• Tchobanoglous, George, Stensel, H. David, Tsuchihashi, Ryujiro, Burton, Franklin L., Abu-Orf, Mohammad, Bowden, Gregory, Pfrang, William. Wastewater engineering, treatment and resource recovery. : , , s. ISBN 978-0-07-340118-8.

1. Introduction and EU legislation on wastewater

2. Wastewater characterization; sewerage systems

3. Mechanical wastewater treatment

4. Biological wastewater treatments: biochemical and microbiological principles and biofilm processes: principles and fixed-film reactors

5. Activated sludge process: formation of activated sludge, main technological parameters, types of activated sludge process

6. Activated sludge process: diffuse air aeration, mechanical aeration, mixing of activated sludge tanks, nutrient removal systems

7. Separation of activated sludge, effluent polishing, wastewater reuse

8. Physico-chemical methods I: sedimentation, oil-water separation, hydrocyclone, filtration, flotation, magnetic separation

9. Physico-chemical methods II: precipitation, coagulation, neutralization, ion exchange, adsorption, stripping

10. Physico-chemical methods III: membrane separation processes, chemical oxidation and reduction, thermal treatment

11. Fundamentals of anaerobic processes

12. Quantitative description of anaerobic processes, mass and energy balances, main design parameters

13. Reactors for anaerobic wastewater treatment

14. Post-treatment of anaerobic effluents

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