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In Design of Nutrient Control Systems, you'll learn ...
- The effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on receiving waters
- Chemical precipitation technologies for phosphorus removal
- Biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal techniques
- Effluent filtration technologies for nutrient removal
Overview
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Credit: 8 PDH
Length: 98 pages
The well documented effect of nitrogen and phosphorus on eutrophication and increased oxygen demands are the primary drivers for regulatory efforts to reduce discharge limits for phosphorus and nitrogen in wastewater effluent. Aquatic and public health implications of nutrient discharge affect over 80 bays and estuaries and thousands of rivers and streams in almost every state of the nation. Ongoing implementation of federal and state water quality standards and total maximum daily loads will further reduce nitrogen and phosphorus limits for wastewater treatment facilities, making it imperative for engineers to understand the technologies available to reduce these nutrients in wastewater effluents.
This course discusses nitrogen and phosphorus control technologies and techniques currently applied and emerging at municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). It includes a description of technologies and identifies key design and operational issues. Because the majority of WWTPs in the United States are equipped with secondary biological treatment, the focus of this course is on process and technology modifications/additions for nutrient removal at existing WWTPs, rather than on new treatment plant design. Emerging issues such as nutrient removal through decentralized treatment, sustainable technologies, and co-removal of emerging contaminants are also discussed.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the status of wastewater treatment in the United States.
- Identify nutrient constituents in wastewater and the methods used to measure them.
- Explain how nutrients impair U.S. waterways.
- Summarize federal and state initiatives to reduce nutrient pollution.
- Identify barriers to implementing nutrient removal.
- Describe phosphorus removal by chemical addition.
- Explain biological nitrogen removal.
- Describe biological phosphorus removal and combined nutrient-removal processes.
- Compare effluent filtration types, design and operating principles, and emerging technologies.
- Explain the role of mathematical modeling in nutrient control system design.
- Describe nutrient-removal approaches for small communities and decentralized wastewater treatment systems.
- Explain sustainable nutrient recovery methods.
- Identify approaches for the co-removal of emerging contaminants.
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 45 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 8 PDH
Length: 98 pages
