DETAILED COURSE PROGRAM (Responsible – Dr.Haim Cikurel)
17.10.18 Water and wastewater quality parameters and standards. Nature of impurities in water and wastewater V&H 7.2(8.2), 7.4(8.4), 3 .5, 3.6, 9.6, 7.9(8.9), 12.11, 14.1, 14.15, 14.16
24.10.18 Water purification processes (general over-view): Aeration, softening, coagulation-flocculation, precipitation, granular filtration, membrane filtration, carbon adsorption, ion exchange, disinfection V&H 9.7, 9.8, 9.9
31.10.18 Theory and principles of clarification. Particle settling. Types of clarifiers. Dissolved air floatation. V&H 10.11, 10.12, 10.13
7.11.18 Physicochemical processes for water purification: Coagulation-flocculation, granular media filtration, disinfection V&H, (10.9, 10.10, 10.18, 10.21, 11.7, 11.8, 11.9, 11.18, 11.35, 11.37)
14.11.18 Natural and hybrid engineered and natural treatment systems for drinking water production and wastewater reuse. Bank filtration, Soil Aquifer Treatment, Constructed wetlands. Pre and post treatments for natural systems (coagulation-flocculation-filtration, chlorination, ozonation, UV, Biological active carbon, membrane systems (UF, NF, RO). (Related papers, WEB). (First assignment on water treatment)
28.11.18 Membrane systems for water and wastewater treatment and water reuse. MF, UF, NF, RO and MBR.
5.12.18 Water reuse. The importance of water reuse. Advanced treatments (tertiary and quaternary treatments). Indirect and Direct Potable Reuse. V&H 14.3, 14.5, 14.6, 14.16(14.17), 14.19
12.12.18 Water treatment – Problem solving session
19.12.18 Wastewater treatment systems (general overview). Basic treatment processes: Pretreatment (Prefiltration systems, precipitation, primary settling), biotreatment (activated sludge, nitrification -denitrification, Aerobic and anaerobic ponds (lagoons), trickling filters, biofilters, anaerobic digestors, sludge treatment, chemical and thermal oxidation V&H 9.4
26.12.18 Principles of biological treatment. Activated sludge and slidge treatment principles. Suspended biological growth processes. Attached growth processes.Nitrification-denitrification processes. Sludge treatment V& H (12.7, 12.8, 12.9, 12.21, 13/10, 13.111, 13.12, 13.13,13.14, 13.15). (Second assignment on wastewater treatment)

2.1.19 Industrial wastewater treatment. Characteristics of Chemical process Industries wastewater. Food industries wastewater. Good house-keeping in different industries to minimize wastewater. Different conventional and modern treatment technologies. Zero discharge. (V&H 7.7, 8.7, 9.1).
6.1.19. Technical visits day – Desalination plant, wastewater treatment plant and/or soil aquifer treatment (SAT) site (water reuse) and/or pilot system for wastewater treatment and reuse (including UF-RO and Advanced Oxidation Processes -SAT systems).
9.1.19 Wastewater – Problem solving session
16. 1.19 General review and completion of study material