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CEE 483, Winter 2006
Drinking Water Treatment

Instructor: Professor Mark Benjamin
335 More Hall

543-7645 (v); 685-9185 (f)
markbenj@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: TTh 1:30-2:20

Class Time and Location:
MWF 8:30-9:20 221 More Hall

http://faculty.washington.edu/markbenj/CEE483/index.html

Grading: HW 15%; 2 Midterms @ 25%; Final Exam 35%

Text: Droste, R.L., Theory and Practice of Water and Wastewater Treatment,
John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1997

Reference: MWH, Water Treatment Principles and Design, Wiley, New York, 2005.

Period

Date

Topic

Text Assignment

1

1/4

Introduction; History of drinking water treatment

EPA Drinking Water; Tolt; Cedar; Seattle; AWWA; 182-185, 187-201, 219-227;

2

1/6

Contaminants in drinking water and their regulation; Overview of water treatment processes; slides

243-247 (skip Method I, p.246); 250(Ex10.1) - 254(10.2); Opflow #10

3

1/9

Mass balance concepts; reaction and advection; Reaction rate expressions

Class Notes on Mass Balances

4

1/11

Mass balances – flow patterns in reactors; mean hydraulic retention time

254(10.2) - 258(10.2.3);
261(10.2.4) - 264(10.3.2)

5

1/13

Unsteady flows and equalization
(Note: 8:00-9:30am)

Sec.10.4; skip discussion of Fig.10.14 (it’s incorrect)

 

1/16

MLK Day; no class

 

6

1/18

No class

 

7

1/20

Type I sedimentation Sedimentation Notes

106-109, 287-298, Fig5-7

8

1/23

Midterm exam #1

Practice problems and solutions

9

1/25

Coagulation & Flocculation

384-388; 400-404; Zeta-Meter booklet

10

1/27

Type II sedimentation

298-308; see Note #1 

11

1/30

Type II sedimentation

 

 

1/31 Field trip: Skagit Valley WTP; 7:00-11:20am  

12

2/1

Filtration: Particle removal

416-423, 446-451

13

2/3

No Class

 

14

2/6

Filtration/Flocculation analogies; Breakthrough

Floc-Filt slides; Text clarification

15

2/8

Filtration: Head loss, backwashing

423-452; Example;
Opflow #1, Opflow #2, Opflow #3

16

2/10

No Class

 

17

2/13

Precipitation: principles

Handout

18

2/15

Precipitation: softening 457-463; 468-471; Opflow #4

19

2/17 Midterm exam #2 Example Probs; Exam #2 Solutions
  2/20 President’s Day; no class  

20

2/22

Precipitation with oxidation: Fe, Mn, corrosion

471-474; Opflow #5; Redox and Disinfection

 

2/23

Field trip: Everett WTP; leave More Hall 7am

 

21

2/24 Chlorine chemistry and disinfection 513-527

22

2/27

Disinfection by-products; alternative disinfectants

527-538

23

3/1

Adsorption and ion exchange

477-479, 484-490

24

3/3

Adsorption and ion exchange

490-507

25

3/6

Membrane treatment systems 480-484
    Field trip: Tolt WTP  

26

3/8

Membrane treatment systems (Chang)

 

27

3/10

Membrane treatment systems

Membrane slides

 

3/14

Final exam 8:30-10:30

2005 Final Exam

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Last Updated:
01/07/06

Contact the instructor at: markbenj@u.washington.edu