Environmental remediationModule Natural purification techniques and water reuse
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: FELICIANA LICCIARDELLOExpected Learning Outcomes
To acquire knowledge on the issues of wastewater natural treatment. The student will acquire knowledge about the regulatory limits for discharge and reuse of wastewater and the most innovative systems of extensive natural wastewater treatment. The student will acquire skills on the design of natural wastewater treatment systems.
Course Structure
Frontal lessons and exercises (in classroom, seminars and technical visits)
Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.
Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.
As a guarantee of equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measures, based on their specific needs and on teaching objectives of the discipline. It is also possible to ask the departmental contacts of CInAP (Center for Active and Participatory Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or DSAs), in the persons of professors Giovanna Tropea Garzia and Anna De Angelis.
Required Prerequisites
Fundamentals of chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics and hydraulics
Attendance of Lessons
Detailed Course Content
Wastewater characteristics
Wastewater sources. Wastewater system network. Quality and quantity characteristics of wastewaters. Legislation on wastewater disposal and treatment.
Treatment and disposal systems
Natural treatment system: constructed wetland, lagooning and wastewater storage reservoir.
Wastewater reuse
Sanitary and agronomic effects of wastewater irrigation on soil and crops. Technological aspects of wastewater irrigation. Legislation on wastewater reuse. Illustration of case studies on disposal and reuse of wastewater by extensive techniques.
Objectives of the course: to acquire knowledge on the issues of wastewater natural treatment. The student will acquire knowledge about the regulatory limits for discharge and reuse of wastewater and the most innovative systems of extensive natural wastewater treatment.
Textbook Information
Masotti L., Depurazione delle acque, Calderini, 2011
Cirelli G.L., I trattamenti naturali delle acque reflue urbane. Ed. Gruppo Editoriale Esselibri – Simone, 2003
Teaching notes distributed during the course
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Source of wastewater. Wastewater collection systems | Testo 1 – Cap. 1-2 |
| 2 | Quantitative and qualitative characteristics of wastewater | Testo 1 – Cap 1-2 Testo 3 – Cap. 2 |
| 3 | Regulations wastewater treatment and discharge | Testo 3 – Cap. 3 |
| 4 | Traditional wastewater treatment | Testo 1 - Cap 3-11 Testo 3 – Cap. 4 |
| 5 | Nature-based solutions for wastewater treatment | Testo 2 – Cap. 1 Testo 3 – Cap. 5 |
| 6 | Treatment wetland | Testo 2 – Cap. 2 Testo 3 – Cap. 6 |
| 7 | Storage reservoirs. Lagoons. | Testo 2 – Cap. 3-4 Testo 3 – Cap. 7 |
| 8 | Sanitary and agronomic effects of irrigation with wastewater on soil and crops*. Technological aspects of the irrigation with wastwater | Testo 1 – Cap 7 Testo 3 – Cap. 8 |
| 9 | Regulations for the reuse of treated water | Testo 3 – Cap. 9 |
| 10 | Case-studies description | Testo 2 – Cap. 5-6 Testo 3 – Cap. 10 |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Students will have to pass a written test and a final oral exam
The written test lasts 2 hours and is valid for 1 academic year.
During the written and oral tests, you may be asked to solve exercises on the topics covered during the course
Verification of learning can also be carried out electronically, if conditions should require it.
The evaluation of the student's preparation will be carried out on the basis of the following criteria: learning ability and details degree of the topics covered, synthesis and exposition skills, and the student's reasoning ability.
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Quantitative and qualitative characteristics of wastewater
Design of a treatment wetland
Reuse of treated water in agriculture