Experimental Methods in Wastewater Treatment
For whom?
Undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, laboratory staff, plant operators, consultants and other professionals working on environmental engineering, sanitation, sanitary engineering and wastewater treatment.
Course Content
1. ACTIVATED SLUDGE ACTIVITY TESTS
Aerobic organic matter removal
Biological nitrogen removal
- Nitrification
- Denitrification
- Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (Anammox)
Enhanced biological phosphorus removal
- Anaerobic EBPR batch activity tests
- Anoxic EBPR batch tests
- Aerobic EBPR batch tests
Biological sulphate reduction
2. RESPIROMETRY
Wastewater characterization
Biomass characterization
Off-gas analysis
Emission measurements
3. SETTLING TESTS
Sludge settleability tests in secondary settling tanks
- Sludge volume index (svi)
- Diluted sludge volume index (dsvi)
- Batch settling curve and hindered settling velocity
Flocculation state of activated sludge - settling behaviour of granular sludge
4. MICROSCOPY
The light microscope
Morphological investigations
Examining activated sludge samples microscopically
Flouroscence in situ hybdridization
Combined staining techniques
5. MOLECULAR METHODS
Extraction of dna
Real-time quantitative pcr (qpcr)
Amplicon sequencing
6. DATA HANDLING
Theory and methods
Methodology and workflow
- Parameter estimation
- Uncertainty analysis
Lecturers
- Prof. Damir Brdjanovic, IHE Delft, The Netherlands
- Dr. Carlos M. Lopez Vazquez, IHE Delft, The Netherlands
- Dr. Francisco Rubio Rincon, IHE Delft, The Netherlands
- Prof. Mark van Loosdrecht, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Prof. Per Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Dr. Gurkan Sin, Denmark University of Technology, Denmark
- Prof. Ingmar Nopens, Gent University, Belgium
- Dr. Henri Spanjers, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands