Industrial Wastewater Treatment

Language of instruction: German

Term cycle: SoSe

Content of teaching/Exam requirements:

  • Differences to municipal wastewater treatment, legel status (World, EU, Germany), wastewater constituents and their characterisation, planning conditions
  • Internal measures
  • Process engineering planning (P&ID)
  • Construction and variation of industrial wastewater treatment plants
  • Physical-chemical processes (discharge, storage/ mixing/ equalizing basin, oil separator, flotation, demulsification, precipitation/ flocculation, ion exchange, detoxification, neutralisation, filtration, oxidation, membrane)
  • Aerobic and anaerobic biological processes
  • Examples
  • Homework
  • Field Trip

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:

  • Design, construct, operate and maintain environmental plants concerning technical, economic and ecological issues
  • Evaluate different solutions, explain in an objective and understandable way, take and explain decisions
  • Present their results in an appropriate manner
  • Handle specific problems on their own in a scientific way