Syllabus

Module 1: General characteristics of polluted water and their permissible limits
Module 2: Methods adopted in its treatment Activated sludge process equipment,advantages and disadvantages, factors affecting Activated sludge Process and numerical on Trickling bed filter and their classifications, advantages and disadvantages, numerical related to standard rate and high rate trickling filters Roles of bacteria, fungi and protozoa. Nitrification and De-Nitrification,Biogas production: Its mechanism and influencing factors,
Module 3: Sludge disposal methods: Anaerobic processes. Sludge digestion (contact digester),
Module 4: Bioleaching and its mechanisms bioremediation : In-situ and ex-situ methods
Module 5: Biosorption, Phytoremediation, Biological Hydrogen production. Types of bioreactors.

This course applies biochemical and microbial principles in the use of microbial systems to minimize or remediate environmental problems.

It provides a basic concept to design and select a bioreactor.

It inculcates the basis for application of biological tools in environmental management.

The course is intended to provide students with the following benefits:
1. To understand different mechanisms involved in waste water treatment.
2. To understand various biological treatment processes in soil.
3. To understand various biological treatment processes in solid waste management.
4. To acquire knowledge in advanced biological treatment processes
5. To enable a student to develop a waste management strategy.

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J E Bailey and D F Ollis, Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals, Mc Graw-Hill, , 2005

Seviour R, and P.H. Nielsen, Microbial Ecology of Activated Sludge, IWA Publishing , 2010