2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

CIVE3420 Wastewater Engineering

10 creditsClass Size: 90

Module manager: Dr. Akintunde Babatunde
Email: a.babatunde@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

- To understand the design and operational concepts behind wastewater treatment and the collection of sewage;

- To understand the options available for the treatment and disposal of sewage sludge.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject (contributing to the AHEP4 learning outcomes indicated between brackets):

1. Apply a comprehensive knowledge of mathematics/ engineering principles, to analyse, characterise and describe the performance of different wastewater treatment systems and individual components (M1 and M2);

2. Apply mathematical and statistical methods, tools and notations to the analysis of wastewater treatment systems and to developing solutions to wastewater engineering problems (M2 and M3);

3. Design solutions for wastewater treatments considering social, environmental and economic matters following applicable industry standards and health/safety requirements (M5);

4. Evaluate socio-environmental impact of solutions by including life-cycle consideration (M7);

5. Select and apply appropriate materials and equipment and recognise limitations of technologies and processes (M13);

6. Evaluate the risk in a wastewater system including the security risk (M9 and M10);

7. Develop ability to undertake design relevant to wastewater engineering (M5).

Skills outcomes
Professionalism
Use of Knowledge

Syllabus

The course overall will cover the physical, chemical and microbiological processes involved in wastewater treatment and the design of the upstream (sewage collection) and downstream (sludge treatment and disposal) systems.

This will include:
1) the design of sewer systems: separate, combined and partially separate; and the impact of combined sewer overflows (CSOs);
2) the wastewater treatment system to include the following: BOD removal kinetics (first and second order) in completely mixed, plug flow and dispersed flow reactors; application to design of biofilters and reactor; biological reactor design; application to activated sludge processes; microbial ecology of wastewater treatment processes and operations of trickling filters;
3) sludge treatment to include: thickening, anaerobic digestion, dewatering, composting, incineration, drying, disposal to land, other disposal options.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Consultation	5	1.00	5.00
Lecture	10	2.00	20.00
Seminar	1	2.00	2.00
Private study hours			73.00
Total Contact hours			27.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			100.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

1 x seminar

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
In-course Assessment	Interim Assessment	20.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		20.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)	3 hr 00 mins	80.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		80.00

Resit 100% exam

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 11/06/2024

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