Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of Connecticut

CE 260

Spring 2000

Water Quality Engineering

Instructor: Professor George E. Hoag

Email: ghoag@eri.uconn.edu

Telephone: 860-486-2700 (Depot Campus) 6-2731 (FLC)

FAX: 860-486-5488

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. FLC 331

Teaching Assistant: Jason Fernet

Email: jfernet@eri.uconn.edu

Telephone: 860-486-6675

FAX: 860-486-5488

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (or by appt.) 

Prerequisites: CE263, CE297

Lectures: Monday and Wednesday 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. (FLC 206)

Required Text: Theory and Practice of Water and Wastewater Treatment, R.L. Droste, Wiley, 1997

Supplemental Texts (on reserve at Babbidge Library)

Solubility and pH Calculations, Butler, Addison-Wesley, 1973.

Water Treatment Principles and Design, James M. Montgomery, Wiley-Interscience, 1985.

Water Quality and Treatment, 4 ed., American Water Works Association, McGraw-Hill, 1990.

Water Quality, Tchobanoglous and Schroeder, Addison-Wesley, 1985. Wastewater Engineering, 3 ed., Metcalf and Eddy, McGraw-Hill, 1991.

Chemistry for Environmental Engineering, 4^th ed. Sawyer, McCarty and Parkin, McGraw-Hill, 1994.

Physicochemical Processes for Water Quality Control, Weber, Wiley-Interscience, 1972.

Biological Wastewater Treatment, 2 ed., Grady et. al., Marcel Dekker, 1999.

Unit Operations in Chemical Engineering, 5 ed., McCabe et al., McGraw-Hill, 1985. Unit

Operations and Processes in Environmental Engineering, Reynolds and Richards, 2 ed., PWS Publishing, 1996.

Overall Course Objectives: (developed by Prof. Barth Smets, CEE Course Coordinator)

1. To develop an understanding of the biological and chemical characteristics of water and wastewater.
2. To develop an appreciation of the rationale used in treatment process selection, which must allow interpretation and construction of flow diagrams for achieving a desired level of treatment.
3. To develop an understanding of mass balances and hydraulic flow regimes and their application to water and wastewater treatment processes
4. To develop a basic understanding of the events governing the physical, chemical and biochemical operations used in treatment of water and wastewater which must allow to perform basic calculations for a variety of unit operations that make up water and wastewater treatment plants

Homework: You will be assign homework. Homework will not be submitted or graded, but will be reviewed with you by the Teaching Assistant.

Examinations: There will be two examinations and a comprehensive final examination. All examinations will be closed-notes and closed book.

Design Project You will be assigned a design project. The project will be conducted in groups of 3 to 5 students. A written report will be due on the last day of classes. Each group will make a 15-minute presentation on the last day of classes. More discussion and details on the design project will be forthcoming early in the semester.

Grading: Each of the three exams will be worth 25 points. The design project will also be worth 25 points.