ENCI677-25X (C) General non-calendar-based 2025

Advanced Wastewater Treatment

This occurrence is not offered in 2025

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 August 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 12 October 2025

Description

Biological processes and complementary physical/chemical processes. Assessment and design of suspended growth, biofilm, and membrane technologies. Modelling approaches and advanced laboratory procedures.

Significant progress in the development of innovative wastewater treatment processes has occurred in the last decade. The application and further improvement of these technologies requires a sound understanding of their principles by practitioners and researchers. This course will provide a comprehensive overview of recent advances and trends in the context of wastewater treatment. The focus is on biological processes such as biofilm and membrane bioreactors. Complementary physical and chemical processes (e.g. advanced oxidation and membrane separation processes) are also discussed. The course makes emphasis on in-depth understanding of the unit processes and the application of this in research-based projects and engineering practise.

Learning Outcomes

1. Apply critical thinking and analytical skills to the interpretation of scientific data sets in the context of wastewater treatment.

2. Design and assess the operation of different wastewater treatment systems performing biological organic matter, nitrogen and phosphorus removal.

3. Assess and describe through simulation software the different processes occurring during wastewater treatment as well as the effects of key operation parameters.

4. Perform laboratory procedures relevant to wastewater treatment practice.

Prerequisites

ENCN281 and ENCN481 or equivalent

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Ricardo Bello Mendoza

Lecturer

Hamish Mackey

Assessment

The material in the course will be assessed via four small assignments, one project/lab report, and a final exam. The exam (closed book) will consist of open-answer questions and written problems/answers with mathematical calculations.

Assessment % of Course Marks
A Assignments 10 %
B Project/lab report 60 %
C Exam (2 hours) 30 %

Textbooks / Resources

Lecture notes and other resources will be provided through LEARN.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,268.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 20

For further information see Civil and Environmental Engineering .

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