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: All Wastewater Operators, Process

Course ID(s): 8073-25-7

Approved By: Department of The Environment - Board of Waterworks And Waste System Operators

  • 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
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