Basic course information

• Education level: Third cycle
• Grade: Fail/Pass
• Subject: Advanced Urban Wastewater Treatment
• Swedish name: Avancerad Urban VA-teknik
• Entry requirements: This course is open for PhD students and for participants from the water sector. 
• Course examiner: Karin Jönsson

Course aims

At the end of the course you should be able to:

• understand the basis of the current water and wastewater system of a city.
• understand what resources we find in wastewater and how to utilize them.
• explain how basic and advanced processes for wastewater treatment works.
• explain how sludge handling processes work.
• understand how advanced control can be applied in the water sector.
• describe future trends and challenges of the urban water system.

Course content

• Basis for the wastewater systems we have today
  • Current driving forces
  • Visions and strategies for wastewater treatment
• Resources in wastewater
  • Potentials in wastewater treatment - Energy, organics, nitrogen, phosphorus, heat, metals
  • Carbon utilization and hydrolysis
  • Energy producing wastewater treatment and sludge handling
• New advanced processes for wastewater treatment
  • Phosphorus removal processes
  • New nitrogen removal processes - nitritation, denitritation, anammox. Advanced reject water treatment
  • New biofilm processes in wastewater treatment (MBBR, AGS and MABR)
  • New biofilm processes in wastewater treatment (AGS)
  • Simple tools for evaluation of carbon footprint from WWTP
  • Application of new microbiological methods in wastewater treatment systems
  • Bulking sludge control
• Advances in sludge treatment and handling of emerging problems
  • Separation technologies, incl. membranes, DMF, MBR
  • Removal of micropollutants and microplastics from wastewater
  • Anaerobic digestion at wastewater treatment plants
  • Advanced control
  • New challenges, Climate change, New cities

Course activities

The course is designed as an 3-day intensive course with lectures and exercises. The course also includes preparatory work (reading) and a written assignment to be handed in after the course.

Examination

• Grading scale: Fail/Pass
• Assessment: Active participation during lecturers and exercises. Compulsory participation in all course activities including lectures, exercises and written assignment.

Course Teacher

Senior lecturer Karin Jönsson – Department of Chemical Engineering, Lund University