Water Resources and Pollution Control - 2024 entry

With the global population expanding rapidly, wastewater management and the provision of clean drinking water to people across the world will become an increasingly challenging and important pursuit in the coming decades.

 

This module will acquaint you with current practices in water quality management, including the operational principles of water and wastewater treatment plants. You will learn about the water cycle, methods of treating polluted water so it can be reused, water behavior and flows, water-borne diseases and methods of disinfection, and. Water quality is strictly regulated by most countries, and so it is imperative that engineers around the world continually improve methods of ensuring a safe supply. 

Programmes that are accredited by the Engineering Council are required to meet Accreditation of Higher Education  

Programmes (AHEP4) Learning Outcomes. The following Engineering Council AHEP4 Learning Outcomes are taught and assessed on this module. 

On successful completion of this module, you should be able to: 
 
Discipline  Specific Skills and Knowledge: 
1. Apply knowledge of  science and engineering principles to the solution of complex problems. (C1 and M1) 

2. Analyse complex problems to reach substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, statistics, natural science and engineering principle. (C2 and M2)3. Select and apply appropriate computational and analytical techniques to model complex problems, recognising the limitations of the techniques employed. (C3 and M3) 
 
Module  Specific Skills and Knowledge: 
 

4. Design/analyse solutions for complex problems that evidence some originality and meet a combination of societal, environmental and user needs. This will involve consideration of applicable health & safety and environmental matters, codes of practice and industry standards (C5 and M5) 

Personal and Key Transferable / Employment Skills and Knowledge:  
5. Communicate effectively on complex engineering matters, evaluating the effectiveness of the methods used (C17 and M17)

- Water Cycle 

water uses: domestic, agricultural, industrial; 
- quality requirements; 
- rainfall variations, temporal, spatial, duration and intensity; 

- evapotranspiration; 

- infiltration; 

- hydrograph: unit hydrograph, synthetic hydrograph; 

- hydrological analysis: river routing, reservoir routing; 

- groundwater; water quality:- dissolved and suspended substances, conservative and non- conservative components, BOD, COD, TOC; 
- water quality requirements ; 
- water related diseases:- relationship to water cycle; 
- viruses, bacteria, fungi, helminths etc; 
- modes of disease transmission; 
- water treatment and disinfection:- suspended solids removal, coagulation, filtration, disinfection and disinfection byproduct 
- Biological secondary wastewater treatment 

- Sludge management