Course Overview
This new course will provide attendees with an understanding of the different stages of treatment in a wastewater and anaerobic digestion plant. It will cover examples in domestic and industrial applications (e.g. food and beverage) and expected performance based upon real world data. Key performance indicators along with common operational challenges and solutions are covered, along with numerous proprietary technologies.
Learning is delivered through a combination of lectures, individual and group worked examples.
Course aim
To provide an overview of all aspects of characterizing, treating and optimizing wastewater and sludge treatment plants. The course will focus on different technologies, their advantages, disadvantages and appropriateness for achieving consent standards, energy generation and recycling targets.
Course objectives
After the course participants should be able to:
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Explain the tests used to define wastewater characteristics (BOD, COD, solids, phosphorus, nitrogen) and what different values mean.
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Map the layout of a typical treatment plant and the importance of return liquors upon flows and loads.
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Understand the basic principles of aerobic and anaerobic wastewater treatment and metrics used to measure performance.
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Identify the differences and commonalities between proprietary technologies for wastewater, AD, sludge and liquor treatment.
Course Programme
Day 1 – Wastewater & wastewater treatment
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What is it? Tests used to characterise and quantify wastewater. Differences between domestic and industrial wastewaters.
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Consent limits and future drivers for investment
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Flow and load – terminology (e.g. population equivalence, dry weather flow), how to undertake a flow and composition study, relationships in the data and what they mean.
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The wastewater treatment works,
Part 1 – preliminary & primary treatment – (Screens, grit removal, primary sedimentation)
Part 2 – Secondary biological treatment – (Activated sludge, SBR, MBR, MBBR, trickling filters)
Part 3 – Tertiary treatment (solids and phosphorus removal, disinfection)
Day 2 – Handling Sludges:
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Different types of sludge produced (SAS, primary, food waste, industrial, humus, imports)
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Understanding what happens to sludges when they are processed (storage, thickening, dewatering, anaerobic digestion)
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Liquor treatment processes – removing nitrogen, BOD and phosphorus
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The opportunity to recover nitrogen and phosphorus
Who should attend
New for 2018, this introductory course is aimed at those people with an interest in or new to wastewater and sludge. It is suitable for those working on domestic or industrial wastewater treatment plants. The course will focus on the principles of treatment, operation and control and also covers a wide range of technologies in the marketplace.
Other CPD courses in this series
Trainer Profile
Matthew Smyth BSc, MRes, MBA, MCIWEM CSci CWEM
Technical Director, Aqua Enviro
Matt has been in wastewater and sludge for twenty years and works with water companies, industry and waste producers to develop and implement solutions. In the late 1990’s he began his career working on pilot and full-scale Sequencing Batch Reactors, developing, then commissioning carbonaceous and nitrification control strategies, that have been widely adopted in plants in the UK and Ireland. He has subsequently worked closely with many anaerobic and advanced anaerobic digestion facilities treating wastewater and food waste materials, dewatering the digestate and handling the liquors produced. He presents and publishes regularly at industry recognized conferences including Aqua Enviro’s European Biosolids & Organics and European Wastewater Management Conferences. He is a member of the CIWEM Wastewater Management Panel and the ADBA Training, Safety & Environment Working Group. Matt has delivered over 2000 training days on these topics (1 training day is when 1 person attends 1 course for 1 day).