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DelftX: Drinking Water Treatment

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Learn about urban water services, focusing on conventional technologies for drinking water treatment.

7 weeks
6–8 hours per week
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Starts Mar 19
Ends Aug 31

About this course

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This course focuses on conventional technologies for drinking water treatment. Unit processes, involved in the treatment chain, are discussed as well as the physical, chemical and biological processes involved. The emphasis is on the effect of treatment on water quality and the dimensions of the unit processes in the treatment chain. After the course one should be able to recognise the process units, describe their function, and make basic calculations for a preliminary design of a drinking water treatment plant.

The course consists of 4 modules:

  1. Introduction to drinking water treatment. In this module you learn to describe the important disciplines, schemes and evaluation criteria involved in the design phase.
  2. Water quality. In this module you learn to identify the drinking water quality parameters to be improved and explain what treatment train or scheme is needed.
  3. Groundwater treatment. In this module you learn to calculate the dimensions of the groundwater treatment processes and draw groundwater treatment schemes.
  4. Surface water treatment. In this module you learn to calculate the dimensions of the surface water treatment processes and draw surface water treatment schemes.

This course in combination with the courses "Introduction to Water and Climate" and "Introduction to the Treatment of Urban Sewage" forms the Water XSeries, by DelftX.

At a glance

  • Institution: DelftX
  • Subject: Engineering
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Prerequisites:

    High school level of mathematics and chemistry is recommended.

  • Language: English
  • Video Transcripts: اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, Deutsch, Español, Français, हिन्दी, Bahasa Indonesia, Português, Kiswahili, తెలుగు, Türkçe, 中文
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  • Associated skills:Water Services, Water Treatment, Unit Processes, Groundwater, Sewage, Biological Process, Engineering Design Process, Water Quality, Surface Water

What you'll learn

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  • Recognize the process units in urban water services, focusing on basic drinking water technologies
  • Describe the function of these process units
  • Describe the physical and chemical processes involved
  • Make simple design calculations on drinking water treatment plants

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The course materials of this course are Copyright Delft University of Technology and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA) 4.0 International License.

This course is part of Water Management XSeries Program

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3 high-quality courses
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6 months
6 - 8 hours per week

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