California 12-Hour Package for Wastewater Operators

12-Hour Package for Wastewater Operators

• Wastewater Treatment Processes [46 Activities]
  • 01. Purpose of Treatment
  • 02. Sources of Wastewater
  • 03. Wastewater Collection Systems
  • 04. Typical Treatment Facilities
  • 05. Influent
  • 06. Preliminary Treatment
  • 07. Primary Treatment
  • 08. Secondary Treatment
  • 09. Tertiary Treatment
  • 10. Disinfection and Effluent Discharge
  • 11. Solids Handling
  • 12. Screening
  • 13. Grinding
  • 14. Grit Removal
  • 15. Sedimentation
  • 16. Factors Affecting Settling Rates
  • 17. Types of Clarifiers
  • 18. Air Flotation
  • 19. Filtration and Effluent Disposal
  • 20. Solids in Wastewater
  • 21. Chemical Coagulants
  • 22. Phosphorus Removal
  • 23. Chemical Clarification Equipment
  • 24. Disinfection
  • 25. Factors Affecting Disinfection
  • 26. Disinfection with Chlorine
  • 27. Equipment Used in Chlorine Feeding
  • 28. Lagoons
  • 29. Activated Sludge
  • 30. Aeration with Pure Oxygen
  • 31. Trickling Filters
  • 32. Distribution Systems
  • 33. Trickling Filter Operations
  • 34. Synthetic Media
  • 35. Activated Biofilter Processes (ABF)
  • 36. Rotating Biological Contactors (RBC)
  • 37. Secondary Clarifiers
  • 38. Three Processes
  • 39. Sludge Conditioning
  • 40. Thickening and Dewatering
  • 41. Drying Beds
  • 42. Lagoons
  • 43. Vacuum Filtration and Filter Presses
  • 44. Further Reduction of Water Content
  • 45. Composting
  • 46. Ultimate Disposal
• Pump Installation and Maintenance [52 Activities]
  • 01. Force and Work
  • 02. Power and Horsepower
  • 03. Energy
  • 04. Velocity and Acceleration
  • 05. Static Suction Lift
  • 06. Pressure Losses: Friction and Vapor Pressure
  • 07. Available and Required Net Positive Suction Head (NPSH)
  • 08. Checking Pump Capacity and Pumping Hot Water
  • 09. Computing Pump Power Requirements and Effects of Operational Factors
  • 10. Priming a Pump
  • 11. Uses and Types of Packing and Seals
  • 12. Packing
  • 13. Selecting Packing Material
  • 14. Removing Old Packing
  • 15. Installing New Packing
  • 16. Testing New Packing and Packing Precautions
  • 17. Mechanical Seals
  • 18. Mechanical Seals Versus Packing
  • 19. Types of Mechanical Seals
  • 20. Installing Mechanical Seals
  • 21. Maintaining and Troubleshooting Packing and Seals
  • 22. Installing the Pump and Preparing the Foundation
  • 23. Fabricated Steel Baseplates
  • 24. Checking Shaft Alignment and Grouting the Baseplate
  • 25. Mounting Pump and Motor Separately
  • 26. Compensating for Heat and Installing Auxiliary Pump Drives
  • 27. Maintaining Centrifugal Pumps
  • 28. Inspecting Packing, Seals, and Bearings
  • 29. Motor and Drive
  • 30. Avoiding Common Pump Problems
  • 31. Cavitation
  • 32. Ring Seizure
  • 33. Overheating
  • 34. Pump Operation
  • 35. Scheduling Maintenance and Troubleshooting
  • 36. Preparation, Work Areas, and Rigging
  • 37. Moving a Pump
  • 38. Disassembling a Pump
  • 39. Inspecting Pump Parts
  • 40. Checking Clearances
  • 41. Reassembling a Pump
  • 42. Reinstalling a Pump
  • 43. Types of Rotary Pumps
  • 44. Gear-Type and Vane-Type Rotary Pumps
  • 45. Axial-Flow Pumps
  • 46. Installing Rotary Pumps
  • 47. Aligning Pump and Piping
  • 48. Direction of Rotation
  • 49. Pump Start-Up
  • 50. Maintaining Rotary Pumps
  • 51. Scheduling Inspections and Maintenance
  • 52. Troubleshooting Rotary Pumps
• Maintaining Wastewater Equipment [41 Activities]
  • 01. Collection Systems
  • 02. Pumping Stations
  • 03. Pump Operations
  • 04. Pump Types
  • 05. Pump Maintenance
  • 06. Pump Drive Units
  • 07. Piping, Ventilation, and Control Systems
  • 08. Level Detection
  • 09. Station Operation and Maintenance
  • 10. Safety Considerations
  • 11. Hand-Cleaned Bar Screens
  • 12. Mechanically Cleaned Bar Screens
  • 13. Grinders
  • 14. Rotating Drum Comminutors
  • 15. Stationary Screen Comminutors
  • 16. Barminutors
  • 17. The Nature of Grit
  • 18. Hand-Cleaned Grit Chambers
  • 19. Maintaining Hand-Cleaned Grit Chambers
  • 20. Detritus Tanks
  • 21. Maintaining Detritus Tanks
  • 22. Chain and Flight Grit Collectors
  • 23. Maintaining Chain and Flight Grit Collectors
  • 24. Aerated Grit Chambers and Cyclone Separators
  • 25. Maintaining Aerated Grit Chambers
  • 26. Sedimentation
  • 27. Rectangular Clarifiers
  • 28. Scum Removal
  • 29. Circular Clarifiers
  • 30. Sludge Removal
  • 31. Laboratory Testing
  • 32. Troubleshooting
  • 33. Safety Considerations
  • 34. Properties of Flowing Liquids
  • 35. Flow Measurement Methods, Including Batch Processes
  • 36. Flow Measurement in Open Channels
  • 37. Measuring Flow from Freely Discharging Pipes
  • 38. Methods of Depth Measurement
  • 39. Flow Measurement in Completely Filled Pipes
  • 40. Methods of Pressure Measurement
  • 41. Maintenance of Flow Measurement Devices

Course Completion

• Mandatory Questionnaire
• California Wastewater Treatment Processes - Certificate of Achievement
• California Pump Installation and Maintenance - Certificate of Achievement
• California Maintaining Wastewater Equipment