Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic discipline
ICAR/03 (ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH ENGINEERING)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
Course
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Curriculum
Ingegneria per l'ambiente e il territorio
Period
2nd semester (02/03/2020 - 12/06/2020)
Lesson hours
56 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Prerequisites
Chemistry. Fundamentals Of Sanitary-Environmental Engineering
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students will have acquired the knowledge related to main technologies and fields of application for: wastewater treatment, drinking water treatment, recovery/disposal of solid waste; students will also be able to perform the design of these plants.
Course contents
WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Characteristics of wastewater.
Pre-treatment of urban wastewater (screening, grit and oil removal, ...).
Primary settling (technologies and design criteria).
Biological treatments: conventional activated sludge process (hydrodynamic models and management issues).
Treatments for nutrient removal (plant schemes and fields of application).
Secondary settling (sedimentation theory and design criteria).
Effluent disinfection (design and choosing).
Start-up procedures for activated sludge processes.
Wastewater treatment plant monitoring and data processing criteria.
Treatment of sewage sludge (technologies and design criteria).
Regulation and legislation.
Laboratory tests: Sludge Volume Index (SVI), respirometric tests, foaming tests, ...
Technical tour to a wastewater treatment plant.
DRINKING WATER TREATMENT
Overview on drinking water.
Drinking water treatments: conventional processes.
Plant schemes for the treatment of groundwater and surface water.
Design of drinking water treatment plant.
Laboratory tests: jar tests, Freundlich adsorption isotherm, .
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE TREATMENT
Regulatory aspects in solid waste classification and management.
Conventional and separate collection of municipal solid waste.
Municipal solid waste selection plant (technologies and plant scheme).
Composting (technologies and plant schemes).
Solid waste incineration (kilns, gaseous emission characteristics, gas cleaning technologies).
Sanitary landfill (classification, design and management criteria).
Design of a mass burning kiln for municipal solid waste incineration.
Landfill design.
Teaching methods
Lectures (hours/year in lecture theatre): 40
Practical class (hours/year in lecture theatre): 8
Practicals / Workshops (hours/year in lecture theatre): 5
Reccomended or required readings
Collivignarelli Carlo, Bertanza Giorgio. Ingegneria Sanitaria-Ambientale. Città Studi Edizioni.
Collivignarelli Carlo, Sorlini Sabrina. Potabilizzazione delle acque - Processi e tecnologie. Dario Flaccovio Editore.
Assessment methods
The exam consists of a written test and an oral exam. The students have to pass the written test with 18/30 at least, and then they will take the oral exam.
Further information
The exam consists of a written test and an oral exam. The students have to pass the written test with 18/30 at least, and then they will take the oral exam.
Sustainable development goals - Agenda 2030
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