Online Course on Wastewater Characteristics

Wastewater characterization is essential for any wastewater study or a project, be at laboratory-, bench-, pilot- or full-scale. This interesting course explains characteristics of flows in both sewered and non-sewered sanitation. After completion of this course you will understand wastewater types and their characteristics, physical and chemical occurrence of their components, microorganisms present in the sewage, and characteristics of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus, including their fractionation. You will learn about population equivalent, importance of ratios between various components in wastewater, domestic and non-domestic sewage components, various domestic sewage sub-streams, and internal loads at wastewater treatment plant. You will become familiar with non-sewered (onsite) sanitation flows and basic definitions of terms. Finally, the course will enable you to understand the fundamental principles of wastewater and sludge sampling and of the design of a sampling program within the wider urban context.