After completing this course, the licensee should be able to:
- List and define the different stages of treatment that can be found at a modern wastewater treatment plant.
- List the various solids separation processes.
- List the equipment used in each solids separation process.
- Describe how each piece of equipment involved in solids separation operates.
- Determine appropriate means of treating sewage and wastewater chemically to reduce pollution.
- Identify the differences between a suspended-growth or fixed-growth biological treatment process.
- Define sludge.
- Describe how to treat sludge.
- List the major units involved in each sludge treatment process.
- List the popular methods of sludge disposal.
Course Format: Text
Credit Type: Technical, Wastewater
Course ID(s): WWT24-3959-T05-G00
Approved By: Indiana Department of Environmental Management - Office of Water Quality - Waste
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
Course Completion
- Mandatory Questionnaire
- Certificate of Achievement
- Guaranteed Next-Day Reporting