Urban Wastewater Systems
Objectives
This course will familiarize students with the complex infrastructure used to meet human demands, namely the wastewater existing treatments and future uses, in resource perspective - Water; This course aims also to provide students with tools to meet UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 (ODS 6) - Clean Water and Sanitation.
It will be discussed the recent approaches to water, energy and other resources recovery from wastewater streams; competing uses and demands; trends and forecasting; costs; regulatory; risk analysis.
This course will also include a quantitative overview of wastewater contaminants and their engineering control, monitoring and removal existing technologies.
Ecological engineering approaches for treating contaminated water using natural processes to improve water quality. Emphasis on combining basic science and engineering approaches to understand the fundamental processes that govern the effectiveness of complex natural treatment systems.
General characterization
Code
12651
Credits
3.0
Responsible teacher
Leonor Miranda Monteiro do Amaral, Rita Maurício Rodrigues Rosa
Hours
Weekly - 2
Total - 28
Teaching language
Português
Prerequisites
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Bibliography
T. Koottatep; P. E. Cookey; C. Polprasert - Regenerative Sanitation: A New Paradigm for Sanitation 4.0 – 2019 –– IWA - ISBN: 9781780409672
Robert Bos. Manual on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation for Practitioners - 2016 – IWA - ISBN13: 9781780407432 - eISBN: 9781780407449
D. M. Robbins; G. C. Ligon - How to Design Wastewater Systems for Local Conditions in Developing Countries – 2014 – IWA -ISBN13: 9781780404769 - eISBN: 9781780404776
Teaching method
The pedagogical materials for the follow-up of the topics will be made available, following a weekly structure, on the UC page created for this purpose on the Moodle platform. All students must be enrolled in CLIP and on the Moodle page in order to properly follow the course unit throughout the semester. Throughout the semester, a digital library focused on the topics to be studied will be built, called the SUAR Library. The SUAR Library will be co-constructed, and students will have to bring innovation to their library, respecting, of course, the theme being studied. In terms of class dynamics, students will be divided into groups of four (4) members. Each group will make a brief presentation of the contents studied that week, their main conclusions, what they did not understand, and what they would like to see discussed in the classroom context. This last aspect will have to be selected (by the group) based on the relevance and importance of the subject. After this period, there will be an exposition on the main concepts and theoretical foundations of the various topics studied, always making the connection to the materials provided and to case studies. Support slides for the different subjects will be prepared and regularly updated. Each practical session will end with a final joint discussion or synthesis work in order to be able to answer the research questions posed, and sometimes to co-construct other research questions related to the topic.
Evaluation method
The assessment of the course unit is continuous and is supported by the following assignments (weekly oral presentation of the topic, respective discussion, and search and upload of new content to the E-SUAR Library), all carried out in groups of up to three members, which must be completed outside of class time, and by a test carried out in the classroom at the end of the semester.
The test will account for 35% of the final grade.
Regarding the assignments, their content will be as follows:
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Oral presentations, with a maximum duration of 10 minutes each, which may be supported by a set of slides, on the research questions presented weekly and related to the theme of the class. - 50%
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Uploading of new content to the E-SUAR Library (mandatory for presenting and discussing groups) - The maximum enhancement will be 10% for the groups that will discuss.
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Active and continuous participation in class is valued and integrated into the assessment (5%). This component will be valued by the presentation of proven content. For example, contributions to the E-SUAR Library.
Attendance at 2/3 of the classes is mandatory and a condition for course attendance
Subject matter
Wastewater characterization (domestic, urban and industrial).
Conventional wastewater treatment typologies.
Legislation.
Future / recent approaches to wastewater uses.
Centralized versus decentralized systems.
Low cost treatment systems and possible application in developing countries.
Energy demand in wastewater treatment and transport – how to measure it – several approaches.
Emergent compounds present in wastewaters, future challenges - namely reuse.
ODS 6 - Clean water and sanitation - relate this ODS to the knowledge acquired previously.