• Fundamentals of Wastewater treatment
  • Introduction (current situation, future tasks), legal fundamentals, wastewater flows, wastewater parameters and quality,
  • Mechanical wastewater Treatment
  • Screens and sieves, grit chambers, primary sedimentation tanks
  • Biological wastewater treatment (Fundamentals of the activated sludge process, Dimensioning; calculation of the activated sludge process with nutrient removal, Secondary sedimentation tank, Aeration systems )
  • Sludge treatment (Utilization and disposal, Sludge quantities and qualities (characteristics), Targets; aims of sludge treatment, Sludge stabilization, Reduction of sludge volume (thickening, dewatering, drying), Sludge utilization and disposal)
  • System analysis (Reaction kinetics of biological processes, Reactor types and flow regimes)
  • Biofilm processes (Biological contactors- und trickling filter, fixed bed reactors, fluidized bed reactors, Fundamentals, applications, dimensioning)
  • Process combinations (Variants of the activated sludge process, Cascade, tank, membrane bioreactors, etc.)
  • Multi-stage processes, Process combinations
  • Exercises
  • Excursion to a wastewater treatment plant