ESM 218 Water and Wastewater Treatment

Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

1. Occupational health and safety legislation in Nigeria
2. History and components of occupational safety
3. Health and safety regulations and duties of employers/workers
4. Plant equipment isolation procedures
5. Workplace hazard identification and control
6. Engineering, administrative and ergonomic controls
7. Mechanical and electrical isolation
8. Safe use of ladders, scaffolding and rigging
9. Fall protection systems and equipment
10. Hearing protection and conservation
11. Static electricity hazards and control
12. Confined space entry procedures
13. WHMIS and material safety data sheets
14. Radioactive materials and ionising radiation safety
15. Personal protective equipment and respiratory protection
16. Incident reporting, investigation and analysis
17. Qualities of water
18. Water quality parameters
19. Water chemistry concepts
20. Water treatment concepts
21. Basic water treatment processes
22. Water analysis
23. Alkalinity and buffering
24. Temporary and permanent hardness
25. Turbidity and units
26. Conductivity and resistivity in water analysis
27. Colour and units
28. Scale deposition analysis
29. Langelier and Stiff-Davis scale prediction
30. Effluent sampling and water quality testing
31. Methods of water purification
32. Sources of water supply
33. Hydrologic cycle
34. Community sanitary wells
35. Protection of water sources from contamination
36. Shallow and deep wells
37. Well disinfection
38. Household water filtration
39. Domestic water disinfection and sedimentation
40. Water storage and contamination prevention
41. Conventional water treatment plant layout
42. Water treatment processes
43. Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD)
44. Industrial wastewater treatment
45. Municipal wastewater treatment
46. Drinking water treatment
47. Spectrophotometer and flame photometer operation
48. Atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS)
49. X-ray spectroscope
50. Electrolytic conductivity bridge
51. Coulometric titration
52. pH meter, auto titration and polarography
53. Radioactive detectors and counters
54. Gas chromatography equipment
55. Fluorimeter, polarimeter and refractometer
56. pH concept and measurement
57. Ion-selective and gas-measuring electrodes
58. Autoradiography
59. Colony counters
60. Introduction to toxicants and toxicity concepts

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What you get for ESM 218

• Every topic above, split into sessions and dated against your exam.
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