Wastewater Treatment Processes
Covers the various stages of wastewater treatment. Goes into detail on the removal of solids, then explains the use of chemical and biological processes for water purification. Covers the treatment and disposal of the extracted solids.
TPC Training is accredited by IACET to offer 0.5 CEU for this program.
Lesson 1: Overview of Wastewater Treatment
Topics
Purpose of Treatment; Sources of Wastewater; Wastewater Collection Systems; Typical Treatment Facilities; Influent; Preliminary Treatment; Primary Treatment; Secondary Treatment; Tertiary Treatment; Disinfection and Effluent Discharge; Solids Handling
Objectives
- List the purposes of wastewater treatment.
- Describe the way organic wastes pollute water.
- Identify elements of wastewater collection systems.
- Stages of wastewater treatment at typical treatment facility.
- Explain what happens to wastewater during preliminary, primary, secondary, and tertiary treatment.
- Describe methods of solids handling.
Lesson 2: Physical Separation of Solids
Topics
Screening; Grinding; Grit Removal; Primary Sedimentation; What Happens During Sedimentation?; Factors Affecting Settling Rates; Types of Clarifiers; Air Flotation; Filtration; Eflluent Disposal
Objectives
- Identify and describe the different types of bar and woven screens used for screening.
- Identify and describe common types of grit-removal equipment.
- List factors affecting settling rates.
- Figure the length of detention time needed to settle out settleable particles.
- Describe the three principal methods of land disposal.
Lesson 3: Chemical Treatment Processes
Topics
Solids in Wastewater; Chemical Coagulants; Phosphate Removal; Chemical Clarification Equipment; Disinfection; Factors Affecting Disinfection; Disinfection with Chlorine; Equipment Used in Chlorine Feeding
Objectives
- Describe what colloidal particles are and outline the problems associated with removing them from wastewater.
- List chemicals used as coagulants.
- Explain how the flocculation process works.
- Explain the function of a precipitant.
- List chemical agents commonly used as disinfectants.
- Identify factors affecting disinfection.
- Describe methods for applying chlorine to wastewater.
Lesson 4: Biological Processes
Topics
Lagoons; Activated Sludge; Aeration with Pure Oxygen; Trickling Filters; Distribution Systems; Trickling Filter Operations; Synthetic Media; Activated Biofilter Process (ABF); Rotating Biological Contactors (RBC); Secondary Clarifiers
Objectives
- Differentiatie between the way unaerated and aerated lagoons function.
- Distinguish between suspended growth and fixed-growth systems.
- List and describe different methods of utilizing activated sludge to stabilize wastewater.
- Tell how trickling filters, ABFs, and RBCs operate.
- Explain how secondary clarifiers are used in conjunction with fixed-and suspended-growth systems.
Lesson 5: Solids Treatment and Disposal
Topics
Three Processes; Sludge Conditioning; Thickening; Dewatering; Drying Beds; Lagoons; Vacuum Filtration; Filter Presses;Further Reduction of Water Content; Composting; Ultimate Disposal
Objectives
- Distinguish between conditioning, thickening, and dewatering.
- List the factors that affect which conditioning, thickening, and dewatering methods are used.
- Describe four methods of sludge conditioning.
- Describe three methods of thickening.
- List factors that affect drying-bed operation.
- Describe methods for disposing of digested or dewatered sludge.