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Offerings
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2018-ONGOING
Requisites
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Enrolment rules
Successful completion of ENG510 Physicochemical Water Treatment Operations and ENG515 Biological Water Treatment Operations (or their equivalent with permission from the unit coordinator).
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Learning outcomes
1.
Understand the concept and characteristics of fit-for-purpose water for representative agricultural, industrial, aquaculture, sanitation, boiler feed, and remote community applications.
2.
Understand in what ways and to what degree conventional water treatment unit operations can be down-scaled and adapted to suit non-conventional applications.
3.
Gain a working and basic design understanding of water treatment unit operations applicable to small-scale implementation and specific decentralized applications.
4.
Understand and quantitatively simulate how small-scale and non-potable water treatment operations perform over a range of feed water types, and environmental and infrastructure conditions and be able to predict the water contaminants which a unit operation will remediate.
5.
Critically differentiate between the advantages and disadvantages of alternative treatment trains possible to achieve the same water quality objective.
6.
Critically review and communicate the function of a decentralized, physical and/or chemical water treatment process, including its relationship to alternative and partner water treatment unit operations.
Assessments
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Additional information
Unit content:The unit will cover the following topics (with representative concepts in each topic shown in parentheses):
· Water quality standards and treatment objectives governing water treatment plant design for typical non-potable end uses.
· Small-scale adapted and alternative technologies for aqueous particulate removal, including cartridge filters, centrifuges, and stilling ponds.
· Small-scale adapted and alternative technologies for aqueous organics removal including combined and separate physical and chemical processes.
· Small-scale adapted and alternative technologies for dissolved contaminants including simple distillation, air stripping, aeration, precipitation, and adsorption processes.
· Control and removal of pathogens and biologically active contaminants in non-potable water production and for applications outside conventional regulatory monitoring.
· Use of natural buffers and treatment processes such as soil/aquifer treatment, river bank filtration, solar photolysis, and natural attenuation.
Low-tech, sustainable technologies and water management strategies for improved water and sanitation in developing and remote communities.