Course Details
Course Details
Course ID
3928
Course Name
Clarification and Filtration Processes
Contact Hours
7.0
Approved Industry
Drinking Water and Wastewater
Partner Name
Maryland Center for Environmental Training
Primary Contact
Rachel Pingitore
rpingitore@mcet.org
3019347519 Ext.
Website
Description
Clarification and Filtration processes are used in both water and wastewater purification are critical relative to meeting final effluent or drinking water standards. Clarification includes Primary and Secondary Clarifiers with or without chemical enhancement. Filtration includes rapid sand filters, mixed media filters, traveling-bridge filters, and pressure filters. These two processes remove the most pounds of organic contaminants and their performance directly affects the quality and regulatory compliance of the final product. Clarification and filtration processes have several safety issues and applicable math concepts. The following concepts are presented in this course as they relate to clarification and filtration: design considerations such as surface loading rates, overflow rates, backwash rates, operating pressures, and membrane pore size; operating principles, physical treatment and settling velocities, buoyancy and specific gravity; performance factors relative to influent, effluent, residuals; operational considerations, normal operation, upsets, and troubleshooting; chemical pretreatment and effluent quality and residuals relative to detention time, overflow rate, run-time, backwashing, and solids removal and handling.
Course Level
Basic thru Intermediate
Course Content
* Design considerations
* Overflow and backwash rates
* Operating pressures and membrane pore size
* Operating principles
* Physical treatmnet
* Buoyancy and specific gravity
* Performance factors relative to influent, effluent, and residuals
* Normal operation, upsets, operational considerations and troubleshooting
* Chemical pretreatment and effluent quality and residuals relative to detention time
* Overflow rate
*time
* Backwashing
* Solids removal and handling
Target Audience
Water & Wastewater operators and superintendents at the beginning and intermediate levels.
Training Format
Classroom