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: Wastewater

Course ID(s): 29517

Approved By: Department of Environmental Protection

  • Wastewater Treatment Processes
    • 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
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