Water Quality Engineering

3 credits · Graduate

The fundamental concepts of physical, chemical, and microbiological processes that affect water quality in natural and engineered environmental systems. Focus is on developing a qualitative understanding of mechanisms as well as quantitative tools to describe, predict, and control the processes that effect water quality. The class consists of three main parts: (1) Physical Processes: mass balance, chemical kinetics, reactor hydraulics, reactor models; (2) Biological processes: microbiological principles, pathogens, and microbial transformations; (3) Chemical contaminants: properties, partitioning and reactivity.