Online course Biological Wastewater Treatment: Principles, Modelling and Design

This online course covers the latest developments on biological wastewater treatment and their principles, compiled in a lecture package including around 40 hours of video-recorded lectures.
The knowledge and understanding of wastewater treatment has advanced to a fundamentally-based ‘first principles’ approach embracing chemistry, microbiology, physical and bioprocess engineering, and mathematics. This course integrates the postgraduate course material of professors from research groups around the world that have contributed to the advances in wastewater treatment technologies. The postgraduate material has been compiled in a text book and a DVD package with more than 40 hours of video-recorded lectures by the author professors, and tutorial exercises for self-study, available to the participants particularly from developing countries where access to advanced level courses in wastewater treatment is not readily.

The course covers different topics of major importance ranging from fundamental principles on microbial metabolism to biological removal of organic matter, nutrients and pathogen removal. It also addresses operational aspects (such as toxicity, bulking sludge and process control) and tackles recent developments on wastewater treatment concerning innovative nitrogen removal technologies (such as Anammox), membrane bioreactors (MBR), and biofilm reactors.