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Course code: IISS20279o16Semester: 2016/2017 winter
Name: Sanitary systems
Major: Environmental Engineering
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 28 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. inż. Ewa Burszta-Adamiak
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Knowledge Student recognizes objects included in the water and wastewater systems in municipal, commercial and industrial facilities; identifies unit processes in municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants; knows numerical models to simulate steady states in wastewater treatment plant operation; identifies processes of removing nitrogen and phosphorus based on composition of raw and treated wastewater; knows anaerobic methods of production of volatile fatty acids from primary solids and biogas production from industrial wastewater and sewage sludge; knows ability to reduce odor emissions during wastewater treatment, sludge treatment, pressure transport of wastewater and formed during production of livestock; knows methods of waste gases treatment. Skills Student can determine the structure of water and wastewater systems for municipal and industrial plants; can prepare and analyze the Sankey diagrams; knows how to calculate and design activated sludge chamber using simulators of wastewater treatment plant work; can analyze technological assumptions of anaerobic wastewater treatment facilities and sewage sludge fermentation; analyzes and resolves issues related to reducing the emission of odorous generated in sewerage facilities and during animal production.
Competences: Understands the need for self-education in new technologies for environmental protection.
Prerequisites: fluid mechanics, hydrogeology, water and wastewater treatment technology, water supply and sewerage
Course content: The basic theory of systems. A systemic approach description of objects of water and sewage management. Planning the development of sanitation in urban areas and dispersed settlements. Phenomenological models of activated sludge. ASM model and its modifications. The use of activated sludge models to develop design concepts of modernization of wastewater treatment plants. SHARON and ANAMMOX method. Anaerobic methods in wastewater and sludge treatment. Water and sewage management in industrial plants. Odorous nuisance and ways of deodorization. Design principles of pressure sewerage with minimizing the effects of anaerobic processes occurring in the system. Purification of waste gases. Agriculture as a source of chemical and biological contaminants.
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Assessment methods: score of three projects, 2 tests, written exam
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