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Subject | BIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT | Code | 00207049 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Descriptors | Credit. | Type | Year | Period | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Optional | Fourth | Second |
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Department | BIODIVERSIDAD Y GEST.AMBIENTAL |
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ebecm@unileon.es gansg@unileon.es |
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General description | Biological communities in wastewater treatment plants. Description of wastewater components. Biofilms. Biological nutrient removal. Biological problems in activated sludge reacctors: bulking and foaming. Biological control of wastewater treatment plants using microfauna. Natural systems for wastewater treatment: stabilization ponds and constructed wetlands. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Competencias |
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C1 | CMECES1 That students have demonstrated possession and understanding of knowledge in an area of study that is based on general secondary education, and is usually found at a level that, although supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that involve knowledge from the cutting edge of their field of study |
C2 | CMECES2 That students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the development and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study. |
C3 | CMECES3 That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their area of study) to make judgments that include reflection on relevant issues of a social, scientific or ethical nature. |
C4 | CMECES4 That students can transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both a specialised and non-specialised audience |
C5 | CMECES5 That students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy |
Learning aims |
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C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 |
Contents |
Topic | Sub-topic |
Biological basis for wastewater treatment | Wastewater characterization Microbiology of wastewater treatment plants Floc estructure and pathologies Biological control of wastewater treatment plants Bulking and foaming Microfauna |
Wastewater treatment systems | Low cost systems Biofilm (trikling filters, RBDs, etc.) Macrophytes Stabilization ponds and constructed wetlands |
Planning |
Methodologies :: Tests | |||||||||
Class hours | Hours outside the classroom | Total hours | |||||||
Laboratory practicals | 7 | 14 | 21 | ||||||
Field work/trips | 3 | 6 | 9 | ||||||
Seminars | 5 | 4.5 | 9.5 | ||||||
Lecture | 12 | 16 | 28 | ||||||
Mixed tests | 3 | 4.5 | 7.5 | ||||||
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students. |
Methodologies |
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Laboratory practicals | Examination of TSS and V30 in activated sludge Mmicroscopic evaluation of activated sludge Desing of conventional and low-cost wastwater treatment plants Part of the practicals (up to 0,5 credits) will be presented in english. Higher proportion of english-speaking lectures would be possible after agreement with the spanish-speaking students. |
Field work/trips | Visit to a low-cost wastewater treatment plant |
Seminars | Exercise on an specific subject proposed by the professor and carried out and presented by the student |
Lecture | Conventional lectures |
Personalized attention |
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Assessment |
Description | Qualification | ||
Lecture | Writting test | 60 | |
Others | Personal work and assistance to 80% of lectures | 40 |
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Other comments and second call | |||
Part of the subject (up to 0,5 credits) will be explained in english. Depending on the presence of english-speaking students, all the subject could be teached in english if there were no any objections by the rest of the spanish-speaking students. |
Sources of information |
Access to Recommended Bibliography in the Catalog ULE |
Basic |
Metcalf-Eddy , Ingeniería de aguas residuales, Mc Graw Hill, 1995 Crites R., Tchobanoglous G, Sistemas de manejo de aguas residuales, McGraw Hill Interamericana, 2000 Henze M. et al. , Tratamiento biológico de aguas residuales, IWA publishing, 2014 |
Complementary |
Jenkins, D., Richard, M.G., Daigger, G.T., Manual on the causes and control of activated sludge bulking and foaming, Lewis , 1993 Seviour, R.J., Blackall, L.L. , The microbiology of activated sludge, Kluwer, 1999 Henze, M., Harremoës, P., La Cour Jansen, J., Arvin, E. , Wastewater treatment, Springer, 1997 |
Recommendations |