CIV 320 – Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Design
Current Catalog Description
This course will cover the planning, design, and operation of water and wastewater infrastructure. Specific topics include: water and wastewater planning; environmental laws and regulations; water quality; physical water and wastewater treatment processes; chemical water and wastewater treatment processes; biological wastewater treatment processes; mass, material and energy balances; economics and financial calculations; resiliency and sustainability.
Prerequisite
CIV 364 or MEC 364; CIV major
Corequisite:
None
Textbooks and/or Other Required Material
Viessman, Jr., W. et al., Water Supply and Pollution Control, 8th Edition, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2009.
This course is
Required
Topics Covered
- Local and Global Water Issues
- Environmental Regulations
- Watershed Management
- Hydrologic cycle
- Urban Water cycle
- GroundWater Wells
- Well Hydraulic
- Surface Water Reservations
- Reservoir Storage Calculations
- Water use Trends and Forecasting
- Population Forecasting
- Overview of Water Quality
- Water Supply
- Oxygen Demand
- Sewage Impacts on Streams
- Mixing and Flocculation
- Sedimentation; filtration
- Wastewater treatment design
- Biological Treatment Systems
- Biological Considerations
- Wastewater Characteristics
Course Learning and Student Outcomes
apply knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology to understand water quality issues. ABET Student Outcome: 1
identify appropriate regulations governing water quality and the design of a particular engineering design. ABET Student Outcomes: 6, 7
solve problems related to water supply and treatment. ABET Student Outcomes: 6
solve problems related to wastewater collection and treatment. ABET Student Outcomes: 6
function effectively as a member of a team to develop and write a preliminary design report. ABET Student Outcomes: 3, 5
Prepared by
Xinwei Mao (2021)
Last Updated:
4/2021