31471 - Health and Environmental Engineering T

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Docente: Maurizio Mancini
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: ICAR/03
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Environmental Engineering (cod. 0928)

Course contents

Preface: Sanitary Environmental Engineering: Hygien and facility.

Water: Cicles and balance in natural and waste water. Technical laws. Industrial and domestic water supply. Hygien Municipal Regulation. Water outfall discipline. Wastewater reuse regulations. Flowrate and characteristics of domestic and industrial wastewater. Treatability in order to use. Water volumes protection and sanitary reclamation plans. Kinetics and biochemistry of bacterial and algal biomass. Growth and death in suspended and biomasses. Full-scale domestic wastewater treatment plant. Choice and ubication. Equalization. Raw and fine screens. Sand removal. Primary sedimentation. Biodegradability and biological phases for secundary treatment. Secundary sedimentation. Wastewater disinfection. Treatment and disposal of sludge. Oxygen balance in lakes and rivers. Eutrophic assessment and water quality in rivers, lakes, transition volumes and coastal seawater.

Solid waste: Merceologic and quantitative characteristics for domestic and industrial solid waste. Optimization of harvest and collecting systems. Landfill design criteria. Calculation, drainage and storage of leachate. Biogas production and landfill captation systems.Treatment of organic fraction.

Air: Meteorology and atmospheric pollution. Main pollutants and chemical reactions in atmosphere. Diffused and localized sources. Principles and schemes utilized in dispersion models.

Readings/Bibliography

Recommended:
Title: DEPURAZIONE E SMALTIMENTO DEGLI SCARICHI URBANI
Authors: G.L.Bragadin , M.L. Mancini
Edition: Pitagora-Bologna (2007)

Auxiliary:
Title: WASTEWATER ENGINEERING
Authors: Metcalf & Eddy
Edition: Mc Graw-Hill - Fourth edition

Teaching methods

°  The course provides surveys and teaching visits in treatment plants and reclamation sites.

°  Room lessons are coupled with single assistance in analyzing an existing treatment plant project

Assessment methods

Examination is oral.

Teaching tools

Each student receives:

a) slides and projected files used during room lessons
b) an harvest of existing technical laws, in Italy, about outfall regulation, treatment and reuse of wastewater

Office hours

See the website of Maurizio Mancini