Improve Workforce Efficiency

Course #: 286M03
Duration: 35 hours
Course Prerequisites: Basic Industrial Math (Block X21); Practical Measurements (Block X22);
What Students Learn: Part 1 (286070). Lesson 1 - Basics of Environmental Technology:

Course #: 5302A-D
Duration: 40 hours
Course Prerequisites: Sanitary Bacteriology (3048); Purification of Water (5301A-B); Sanitary Chemistry (5501);
What Students Learn: PART 1 (5302A). Water Supply Systems; Reservoirs and Wells; Laying Pipe; Care of Distribution System; Contents of Water; Standards of Quality; Water-Borne Diseases; Factors in Treatment of Water; Care of Treatment Plant.
PART 2 (5302B). Water Analyses; Methods of Taking Samples; Equipment Used in Making Analysis; Turbidity; Color; Odor; Temperature; Hardness; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Alkalinity and Acidity; Residual Chlorine; Bacteriological Examination; Microscopical Examination.
PART 3 (5302C). Intakes and Screens; Coagulation and Sedimentation; Chemical Aids to Coagulation; Mixing Basins; Sedimentation Tanks for Clarifiers; Materials for Filters; Mechanical Filters; Slow Sand Filters.
PART 4 (5302D). Disinfection; Liquid Chlorine; Calcium Hypochlorite, Chlorine and Ammonia; Ultraviolet Rays and Ozone; Softening; Lime-Soda Process; Zeolite Process; Iron and Manganese Removal; Control of Corrosiveness; Taste and Odor Control; Control of Fluorine; Protection of Treated Water; Displacement Pumps; Centrifugal Pumps; Air-Lift Pumps; Typical Data for Rapid-Sand-Filter Plant.

Course #: 5046A-C
Duration: 30 hours
Course Prerequisites: Fluid Mechanics, Part 1 (286010); Fluid Mechanics, Part 2 (286011); Fluid Mechanics, Part 3 (286012); Elements of Chemistry (5011); Physics, Part 1 (686003); Physics, Part 2 (686004);
What Students Learn: PART 1 (5046A). Characteristics of Wastewater; Wastewater Systems Changes in Composition of Wastewater; Wastewater Analysis, Samples for Analyses; Equipment for Analyses; Physical Tests; Tests for Dissolved Oxygen; Biochemical Oxygen Demand; Chemical Oxygen Demand; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, Nitrogen, and Chlorine.
PART 2 (5046B). Units for Preliminary Treatment Pumps; Meters; Grit Chambers; Screens; Grease-Removal Units; Units for Primary Treatment; Setting Tanks; Sludge Digesters; Combined Units for Setting and Digestion; Sludge-Drying Units.
PART 3 (5046C). Units for Secondary Treatment; Biology of Secondary Treatment; Standard-Rate Trickling Filters; High-Rate Trickling Fillers; Conventional Activated Sludge Process; Modified Activated Sludge Processes; Other Secondary Treatment Methods; Chlorination of Sewage; Miscellaneous Information; Painting; Safety; Care of Plant Grounds.

Course #: 5045
Duration: 10 hours
Course Prerequisites: Operation of Wastewater Treatment Plants (5046A-C);
What Students Learn: Need for Tertiary Treatment; Government Regulations; Water Reuse; Coagulation; Flocculation and Sedimentation by Chemical Treatment; pH Control; Recarbonation; Acid Treatment; Recovery of Alum, Lime, and Phosphorus from Tertiary Sludges; Filters and Filtration Systems; Activated Carbon Absorption and Regeneration; Processes for Nitrogen Removal including Biological, Breakpoint Chlorination and Ion Exchange; Disinfection Treatments; Land Treatment of Wastewater.

Course #: 5301A-B
Duration: 20 hours
Course Prerequisites: Practical Measurements (Block X22);
What Students Learn: PART 1 (5301A). Examination of Water; Impurities in Water; Physical Tests of Water; Temperature, Taste, and Odor; Turbidity; Color; Chemical Analysis of Water; Hardness; Hydrogenion Concentration; Alkalinity and Acidity; Chlorides and Residual Chlorine; Iron and Manganese; Organic Matter; Bacteriological Examinations of Water; Microscopical Examinations; Standards of U.S. Public Health Service.
PART 2 (5301B). Screening; Sedimentation and Coagulation; Preparation of Chemicals; Mixing Basins; Sedimentation Tanks or Clarifiers; Filtration; Mechanical Filters; Slow Sand Fitters; Disinfection; Liquid Chlorine; Calcium Hypochlorite; Chlorine and Ammonia; Ultraviolet Rays and Ozone; Softening; Lime-Soda Process; Zeolite Process; Iron and Manganese Removal; Control of Corrosiveness; Taste and Odor Control; Copper Sulphate; Ammonia and Chlorine; Activated Carbon; Control of Fluorine; Covering and Fencing Reservoirs; Typical Design of Treatment Plant.

Course #: 6794A-C
Duration: 30 hours
What Students Learn: PART 1 (6794A). Hydraulics of Sewers; Velocity of Flow in Sewers; Design of Circular Sewers; Vitrified-Clay Pipe; Concrete Pipe; Loads on Sewer Pipes; Laying Sewer Pipe; Sewers Built in Place; Manholes; Inlets and Catch Basins; Flush Tanks; Overflows and Regulators; House Sewers; Sewer Intersections; Stream Crossings; Outlets.
PART 2 (6794B). Design of Sewerage Systems; Planning of Systems; Surveys and Maps; General Layout of Systems; Design of Sanitary Sewers; Required Capacity; Location of Sewers; Determination of Sizes and Sewers; Design of Systems of Storm Sewers; Rate of Rainfall; Amount of Run-Off; Design of Combined Systems.
PART 3 (6794C). Pumping of Sewerage; Construction Materials and Operations; Construction Line and Grades; Trenching; Foundations; Sewer Records; Estimates of Material and Cost; Agreements Governing Construction.

Course #: 5294A-D
Duration: 40 hours
Course Prerequisites: Sanitary Bacteriology (3048); Elements of Chemistry (5011);
What Students Learn: PART 1 (5294A). Sewerage Systems; Changes in Composition of Sewage; Samples for Analysis of Sewage; Physical Tests of Sewage; Chemical Tests of Sewage; General Features of Sewage Treatment Plants; Auxiliary Plant Units; Disposal of Sewage.
PART 2 (5294B). Preliminary Treatment of Sewage; Screening; Grit Chambers; Removal of Grease; Preparation of Sewage; Separation of Settleable Solids in Sewage; Plain Settling Tanks; Settling with Aid of Chemical Coagulants.
PART 3 (5294C). Biological Processes in Secondary Treatment; Standard-Rate Trickling Filters; High-Rate Trickling Filters; Developments in Trickling Filters; Conventional Activated Sludge Process; Modified Activated Sludge Processes; Control of Activated Sludge Process.
PART 4 (5294D). Aeration in Activated Sludge Process; Secondary Clarifiers in Activated Sludge Process; Aerobic-Anaerobic Oxidation Ponds; Other Treatment Ponds.