Water Supply Engineering

1.00 credits · Undergraduate

Water quality parameters; Drinking water sources, quantity and quality requirements; Water chemistry; Unit processes of water treatment: screening; solids separation; coagulation; flocculation; sedimentation; filtration; softening; disinfection. Treated water distribution: flow in looped pipe network systems; monitoring; applications of computer modelling. Experimental laboratory work involving water quality determination: solids, alkalinity, hardness, disinfection, coliform and bacterial analyses.