Environmental Remediation

Academic Year 2018/2019 - 1° Year

Learning Objectives

• Natural purification techniques and water reuse

  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.

Course Structure

• Natural purification techniques and water reuse

  Frontal lessons and exercises (in classroom, seminars and technical visits)

Detailed Course Content

• Natural purification techniques and water reuse

  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

• Natural purification techniques and water reuse
  • Lecture Notes distributed during the course
  • Masotti L., Depurazione delle acque, Calderini, 2011
  • Cirelli G.L., I trattamenti naturali delle acque reflue urbane. Ed. Gruppo Editoriale Esselibri – Simone, 2003.