Basic Course Information

• Course credits: 3 hp
• Grade: Fail/Pass; U/G
• Subject:
• Swedish name: Provtagning och mätningar i urbana vattensystem
• Entry requirements: This course is open to PhD students and interested members of the water sector with sufficient knowledge.
• Course examiner:  Associate Professor Heléne Österlund, helene.osterlund@ltu.se  

Course aims

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

• Create and evaluate sampling plans including how to take representative sample, prevent contamination and select analysis methods
• Explain concepts related to analysis such as detection/quantification/reporting limits, sample matrix, accreditation, and standard method.
• Describe the importance of blank, blind and control samples, and how these can be taken for specific applications in lab and field studies.
• Carry out elementary installations of automatic samplers and physico-chemical analysis
• Describe different flow measurement methods and under what conditions they are applicable in urban water engineering.
• Identify sources of uncertainties in field and laboratory measurements and calculate how they propagate into uncertainty in final results.
• Carry out flow measurements and install flow sensors.

Course content

This course covers how to plan sampling and continuous measurements in urban water systems. It addresses basic concepts in sample collection and choice of analytical methods. The course also provides knowledge about continuous measurements and how uncertainties in measurements and calculations based on measurements can be estimated.

Course activities

The course consists of one online meeting and one physical meeting. Prior to the physical meeting three tasks should be carried out. 1) preparation and submission of a PM describing a sampling plan which will be distributed to the other participants. 2) read the PM’s from 3-4 other participants. 3) read  provided literature.

During the physical meeting lectures, workshops, field and lab exercises and calculation tasks will be carried out.

After the physical meeting the PM should be revised based on the new knowledge and insights gained during the meeting and a short report written about the flow measurement exercise and uncertainty estimation.

Two weeks prior to the online meeting, course information, instructions and literature will be sent out.

Examination

This course is examined by a PM prepared prior to the physical meeting, and revised and resubmitted after, active participation in group discussions and practical field/lab exercises and a short report about flow measurements including uncertainty estimation.

Course Teachers

• Helene Österlund, helene.osterlund@ltu.se 
• Ico Broekhuizen, ico.broekhuizen@ltu.se