ENV 4417
Water Quality and Treatment
Fall 2015 semester
Instructor: J.A. Cunningham (cunning@usf.edu)
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Syllabus and course information
∙ Class syllabus for Fall 2015 – updated
Homework assignments
∙ Problem set #1 is about water quality.
∙ Problem set #2 is about lime softening.
∙ Problem set #3 is about membrane treatment and reverse osmosis.
∙ Problem set #4 is about disinfection with chlorine, chloramine, and ozone.
∙ Problem set #5 is about
equalization and primary treatment in wastewater treatment.
Some notes about the
equalization basin problem.
∙ Problem set #6 is about BOD removal and N removal in secondary treatment.
∙ Problem set #7 is about P removal and solids handling in wastewater treatment.
Group semester project
This semester, groups of students will prepare group reports on treatment plants in the Tampa Bay Area.
∙ Here are overall instructions for the project.
∙ Stage 0 for the project is to form a group by Thursday, August 27.
∙ Stage 1 for the project is to select a treatment plant by Thursday, September 3.
∙ Stage 2 is to schedule a field trip for the rest of the class to attend.
∙ Stage 3 is to visit your treatment plant and gather some initial information.
∙ Stage 4 is to write an outline for your paper about your treatment plant.
∙ Stage 5 is to write a rough draft. The ENV 4417 writing rubric can help you.
∙ Stage 6 is to conduct a peer review about another group’s paper.
∙ Stage 7 is an oral presentation in class.
∙ Stage 8 is your final paper.
Exams and quizzes (incl. from previous years)
∙ Exam 1 covered lime softening, membrane
treatment, and disinfection.
Here is my solution set to exam 1.
∙ Exam 2 covered wastewater treatment
(water reclamation) – flow equalization, primary settling, secondary treatment
for carbonaceous BOD removal, advanced treatment.
The exam is based on this process
flow schematic for a proposed water reclamation facility in Sprawlville.
Here is my solution set to exam 2.
∙ The final exam covered both water treatment and wastewater treatment (water reclamation). Here is my solution set to the final exam.
Other documents and figures
∙ If there are other useful documents and figures for the class, I will put them here.
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Last modified: 15 December 2015