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H. David Stensel
CEE 541
Seattle Campus
Basic reactions, design principles, current design models, and operational considerations for biological treatment systems used in environmental engineering. Applications include activated sludge design and optimization, fixed film reactors, nitrification, nitrogen removal, phosphorus removal, anaerobic treatment, biomethane production, resource recovery, and toxic organics removal. Prerequisite: CEE 540 and CEE 482 or equivalent.
Class description
Schedule and assignments will by on syllabus on class website
Student learning goals
• Objective 1: Understand concepts of the distribution of substrate utilization between that oxidized and that ending up as biomass on a COD basis.
• Objective 2: Understand the importance and use of solids retention time (SRT) in biological process design
• Objective 4: Be able to perform a mass balance to follow any specific component in a biological suspended growth process under steady state or dynamic conditions
• Objective 5: Design activated sludge systems for organics, nitrogen and phosphorus removal with conventional clarifiers or with membrane separation.
• Objective 12: Understand the design basis for key fixed film processes and the importance and effect of diffusion limitations in fixed film processes
• Objective 13: Design anaerobic digestion and other key anaerobic processes.
General method of instruction
Class lecture and class participation on design methodology Homework assignments Computer modeling
Recommended preparation
CEE540 or equivalent microbiology Basic course in environmental engineering Background in understanding mass balance procedures
Class assignments and grading
REading assignments and preclass Q/A Homework on design methods. BioWin computer software assignment-team project
Pre-class Prep 10% Homework 30% Midterm Exam 30% Final Exam 30%
