ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 59.5 Hours of tutorials: 3.5 Expository Class: 10.5 Interactive Classroom: 14 Total: 87.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
0.- Basic course information
Name and code:
Subject: Operation of water treatment plants
Code: P4012-203
Type: Elective
Nº of credits: 3,5 ECTS
Module: 2 (Water Treatment)
Calendar: see web page (www.usc.es/etse)
Lecturer
Francisco Omil Prieto
Dept. Chemical Engineering
Phone: 16805
email: francisco.omil [at] usc.es (francisco[dot]omil[at]usc[dot]es)
Language
English (with the exception of the 8 hours corresponding to the invited lecturers from companies and administration).
Tutorials
Tuesdays, 14 to 15h at Desk 3.1 (Chemical Eng. Dept).
1.- Objectives
The course has a perspective mainly applied, where the student will be able to learn the fundamentals of the selection and design of treatment plants for both drinking water and wastewater.
The contents are focused on the study of the main parameters of design and construction of several selected and representative drinking water plants, sewage treatment plants and industrial wastewater treatment plants, considering also their operation and maintenance.
This course is practically oriented, especially addressing the most frequent issues and problems which an environmental engineer has to deal with, considering also a technical visit to an industrial installation.
The contents that will be developed along the academic year are summarised in short in the descriptor available in the study plan of the Master on Environmental Engineering:
“Operation of Drinking Water Plants (DWP), urban Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTP): common problems and troubleshooting. Optimisation of processes and economical issues. Emergent challenges: nutrients, micropollutants and sludge management”.
The complete syllabus of the subject is structured along 4 basic units, complemented with a seminar programme given by directive staff from important representative companies in this field (Unit 0):
Syllabus
Unit 0. Participation of lecturers from relevant companies (6 h)
Lectures will be given by recognised persons from the private and public sector, who will be invited to give specific talks showing the perspective of companies and the public sector related to the field of water treatment. These talks will be given in Spanish.
Unit 1. Ethical, safety, risk and maintenance aspects (2 h)
Ethical aspects. Health and safety in the operation of water treatment plants: physical, chemical and biological risks. Maintenance of machinery. Types of maintenance: corrective, preventive and predictive.
Unit 2. Study and operation of drinking water plants (4 h)
Types of units more frequently used in drinking water plants. More common problems. Cost analysis: installation and operation. Analysis of a specific industrial plant.
Unit 3. Study and operation of sewage treatment plants (6 h)
Types of units more frequently used in sewage treatment plants in Galicia. More common problems. Start-up, monitoring and maintenance protocols. Cost analysis: installation and operation. Analysis of an specific industrial sewage treatment plant and technical visit.
Unit 4. Study and operation of industrial wastewater treatment plants (8 h)
Types of industrial wastewaters. Plants based on anaerobic processes. More common problems. Start-up, monitoring and maintenance protocols. Cost analysis: installation and operation. Analysis of an specific industrial wastewater treatment plant.
BASIC BOOKS
• Operation of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants: MoP No. 11, Sixth Edition. Water Environment Federation, 2008. ISBN: 9780071543675.
available on-line through McGraw Hill Access Engineering: https://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/content/book/9780071543675
• Metcalf & Eddy Inc. "Wastewater Engineering. Treatment and reuse ". 4ª Edición. Editorial Mc-Graw Hill, (2003). Sinatura ETSE: A213 13 H (ordered to have on-line)
COMPLEMENTARY BOOKS
• Water Environment Federation. Operation of municipal wastewater treatment plants (5ª Ed.). Virginia: WEF Manual of Practice, 1996. ISBN 1-57278-040-1.
Sinatura ETSE: 214 6 A (1-3)
• LK Wang, YT Hung, HH Lo and C Yapijakis (eds.). Hazardous Industrial Waste Treatment.
Taylor & Francis Group. CRC Press. Boca-Raton, FL (USA) 2006. ISBN 0-8943-7574-6
Sinatura ETSE: A 213-52
• Judd S. The MBR book (2ª Ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011. ISBN 978-1-843-39518-8.
Sinatura ETSE: 213 32 A
• Poch, M. y J. M. Lema (Eds) Tecnologías y estrategias para el rediseño de EDAR.
USC: Santiago de Compostela, 2008. ISBN 978-84-691-7741-9.
Sinatura ETSE: 213 45 1
• S. Suárez & J. M. Lema (Eds). Innovative Wastewater Treatment & Resource Recovery Technologies: Impacts on Energy, Economy and Environment. IWA Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978 1780407869.
Sinatura ETSE: A213 62
• Speece, R.E. Anaerobic biotechnology for industrial wastewaters.
Nashville: Archae Press, 1996. ISBN 0-9650226-0-9.
Sinatura ETSE: 213 9
• Van Haandel, A.C. and Lettinga, G. Anaerobic sewage treatment.
Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1994. ISBN 0-471-95121-8.
Sinatura ETSE: 213 22
ARTICLES
• M. T. Seijas, D. Lago y F. Omil (2003). “Identificación de problemas durante la operación de una EDAR municipal y propuesta de acciones correctoras”. Tecnología del Agua, 234, 33-40.
• L.M. Morón, H. Laíño y F. Omil (2006). “Influencia de las condiciones de operación de una EDAR municipal en las características de sedimentabilidad de la biomasa: 1. Descripción y análisis de la operación de la EDAR”. Tecnología del Agua, 269, 30-38.
• L.M. Morón, H. Laíño y F. OMIL (2006). “Influencia de las condiciones de operación de una EDAR municipal en las características de sedimentabilidad de la biomasa: 2. Estudio morfológico y estructural de la biomasa”. Tecnología del Agua, 270, 32-42.
This subject will give to the students a number of general competences, desirable for every universitary study, as well as other more specific ones, more linked to the field of Environmental Engineering. The competences that will be especially developed in this subject are the following:
Basic and General
• CB6 - To acquire and understand knowledge that contribute to be original in the development and / or application of ideas, often in a context of research.
• CB7 - That the students can apply the acquired knowledge and capacity of resolution of problems in environments new or little known inside more wide contexts (or multidisciplinary) related to the area of study
• CB8 - That the students are capable of integrating knowledge and to face the complexity of formulating judgments from an information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social responsibilities and ethics linked to the application of those knowledge and judgments.
• CB9 - That the students will be able to communicate their conclusions and knowledge to public specialized and not specialized in a clear way and without ambiguities
• CB10 - That the students acquire the skills of learning that allow them to continue studying in a way that will be to a great extent self-guided or autonomous.
• G01 - To identify and to enunciate environmental problems
Specific
• E14 - To know in depth the technologies, tools and skills in the field of the environmental engineering.
• E22 - To organize and to plan the management of an environmental problem, installation or environmental service.
• E26 - To manage in an efficient way the resources and energies, promoting the development and the use of renewable energies
• E32 - To compare and to select technical alternatives
• E33 - To identify emergent technologies
Debido a que esta materia está en período de extinción, non haberá clases regulares.
Ao comezo do curso, facilitarase ao alumnado o seguinte material no campus virtual da materia:
• GUÍA DOCENTE: a guía docente homologada da materia (galego, castelán, inglés).
• PRESENTACIÓNS: as guías-presentacións utilizadas polo profesor nas clases teóricas (formato pdf e vídeos mp4 xerados a partir das presentacións orixinais en ppt).
• MATERIAL COMPLEMENTARIO: para cada tema como lexislación relevante, artigos científicos, ligazóns a páxinas web con contidos de interese (produtos, empresas, etc.)
Ademais, realizaranse titorías individualizadas de xeito presencial ou a través da plataforma MS Teams a petición do alumno.
Debido a que esta materia se atopa en período de extinción, só se realizará unha proba final de acordo co calendario aprobado para a titulación.
O exame constará dunha serie de preguntas breves sobre os contidos do temario da materia.
Non procede
• De acordo coas normas de avaliación telemática, é necesario dispor de micrófono e cámara para a realización de exames telemáticos, ademais de que estes aparellos melloran moito a interacción co profesor.
• Mellorar as competencias informacionais e dixitais cos recursos dispoñibles na USC.
Esta materia pertence ao antigo plan de estudos do Máster en Enxeñaría Ambiental (2a edición) que se impartiu por última vez no curso 2021-22. Durante os vindeiros cursos 2023-24 e 2024-25, os exames só se realizarán para aqueles alumnos que o requiran. Recoméndase contactar co profesorado da materia.
Francisco Omil Prieto
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816805
- francisco.omil [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
| 01.18.2023 18:00-20:00 | Grupo de examen | Classroom A8 |
| 06.14.2023 18:00-20:00 | Grupo de examen | Classroom A8 |