Course Info
- About
This course focuses on the different settling regimes that a particle-liquid suspension can undergo and relates these regimes to the specific settling behavior observed in secondary and primary settling tanks, and granular sludge reactors. The course is designed for both academics and practitioners, including graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, laboratory staff, plant operators, consultants, and other sector professionals with a background in sanitary, civil, environmental or (bio)chemical engineering, environmental biotechnology or biochemistry. As the course is at graduate level, participants with knowledge of and experience with the basic concepts of biological wastewater treatment will particularly benefit from it.
- Syllabus
The following topics are part of the course:
- Sludge settleability in secondary settling tanks;
- The flocculation state of activated sludge;
- The settling behavior of granular sludge;
- Settling velocity distribution in primary settling tanks.
For a detailed table of contents please click here.
- Objectives │ Activities │ Assessment
Learning objectives, activities and assessment depend on the delivery mode of the course. In general, learning objectives are more complex for instructor-led courses. This is particularly true for on campus courses and tailored training because they allow for guided, hands on, laboratory exercises and assignments. To view the learning objectives, activities and assessment of this course please click here.
- Contact
Carlos Lopez Vazquez, PhD
c.lopezvazquez@un-ihe.org
+31 15 21 51 781
Download book chapter
Settling tests (4.3 MB)
Available in English, Spanish and Croatian. Coming soon in Russian, Hindi, Marathi and Tamil.Settling tests
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In case you are interested to know the extent to which you achieved the learning objectives of this course you can take the web-based self-assessment. While this is the only assessment option for a self-guided online courses, for guided courses and training additional assessment options are applied.
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