ENVS 343 - Water and Wastewater Treatment Laboratory

Course Description:
This is a basic water treatment laboratory course with emphasis on environmental applications. The unit operations of coagulation and flocculation will be maximized with standard jar test procedures. The unit operation of disinfection will be studied by standard chlorine demand testing. A brine water will be analyzed, calculated, balanced, reported and commented on. Specific tests like ORP pH, buffer capacity, alkalinity, conductivity/resistivity, density, refractive index, chloride, hardness, sulphate and iron on real environmental samples will be determined. Removal of chromium at the mg/L will be studied. Partition coefficients of organic pollutants with varying hydrophobic/hydrophilic character. Kinetics of pollutants in the environment will be studied. Dissolved oxygen, biological oxygen demand and chemical oxidation demand will be determined. Determination of ammonia, chloride and fluoride by specific ion electrode. Ion exchange, distillation and reverse osmosis treatments will be studied.

3 Credits

Prerequisite(s):

CHEM 276

Corequisite(s):

ENVS 359