Assignments

Ch.1 Slides

Ch.2 Slides

Ch.3 Slides

Ch.4 Slides

Ch.5 Slides

Ch.6 Slides

Ch.7 Slides

Ch.8 Slides

Ch.11 Slides

Ch.12 Slides

Ch.14 Slides

Ch.13 Text: Settling and Flotation

Ch.10 Text: Redox and Disinfection

Ch.10 Slides

CEE 544, Spring 2009
Physical/Chemical Water Treatment Processes

Instructor: Professor Mark Benjamin
335 More Hall

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

Office Hours: TTh 2:30-3:30

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

http://faculty.washington.edu/markbenj/CEE544/index.html

Text: Lawler and Benjamin, Water Quality Engineering: Physical-Chemical Treatment Processes (in progress).

Week

Dates

Topic

Text Assignment

1

3/30-4/3

Contaminants in water and their regulation; Overview of water treatment processes; Mass balances; Reactor hydraulics

Some water quality and treatment websites; Ch.1, 1-35, 48-51;
Ch.2: 1-40; All Ch.1 Problems;
Tracer expl (#2-7);

2

4/6-10

Reactor hydraulics; Chemical kinetics

Ch.2: 40-91; Equalization expl (#2-15);
Ch.3: 1-43; Extra Ch.2 Problems

3

4/13-17

Chemical kinetics; Combining hydraulics and kinetics to understand reactor performance

Ch.3: 43-78; Ch.4; Expl: (#4-14);
Extra Ch.3 Problems;

Extra Ch.4 Problems

4

4/20-24

Basics of gas transfer; Gas transfer into or out of solutions with spatially uniform composition

Ch.5 (emphasize 1-59, 80-90);
Ch.6: 1-42

5

4/27-5/1

Gas transfer in systems with spatially varying solution composition; Overview of adsorption processes

Ch.6: 42-76;

6

5/4-8

Modeling adsorption processes; Analysis of adsorption reactors

Ch.7
 

7

5/11-15

Adsorption reactors; Properties of small particles in aqueous systems

Ch.8;  Ch.11: 1-53

8

5/18-22

Coagulation; Particle filtration

Ch.12, pp.1-50;
Ch.14: 1-53, 61-67, 71-79

9

5/25-29

Redox reactions and water disinfection; Introduction to membrane processes

Ch.10: 93-117

10

6/1-5

Analysis of membrane systems

Ch.15

 

Last Updated:
06/06/2009

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