Water Quality Management Practices

By Prof. Gourav Dhar Bhowmick | IIT Kharagpur

Learners enrolled: 524 | Exam registration: 9

ABOUT THE COURSE:

This course offers a comprehensive coverage of water quality management practices from pollutant classification to the occurrence of pollutants from agricultural, municipal and other industrial sources, design of collection systems and treatment units including operational guidelines for the treatment plants. Apart from the conventional primary and secondary treatment systems, this course will also cover the details and design of advanced wastewater treatment units worldwide. The course is also planned to cover elaborately the tertiary treatment processes, which are specifically planned keeping in mind the pollutants appearing in the agricultural, municipal and other industrial wastewaters at present and requirement of the treatment of the same to produce reusable quality treated water for various reuses.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: UG/PG Scholars of Civil Engineering, Agricultural and Food Engineering, Water Resources Engineering or Science

PREREQUISITES: Basic Knowledge in Higher Secondary Mathematics, Biology, and Physics

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Almost all type of industries dealing with water and wastewater treatment related technology development

Summary

Course Status :	Upcoming
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Agricultural and Food Engineering Integrated Soil and Water Management
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	20 Jan 2025
End Date :	11 Apr 2025
Enrollment Ends :	27 Jan 2025
Exam Registration Ends :	14 Feb 2025
Exam Date :	26 Apr 2025 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction: Classification of pollutants, regulatory standards, necessity and essential requirement for water management systems

Week 2: Fundamentals of reactor engineering and Self-purification of natural waters

Week 3: Quantity estimation of major pollutants: TSS/VSS/TDS, Alkalinity, DO, pH, BOD, COD, TOC, etc. modelling and relation of BOD and COD, TOC, nitrogen, phosphorous and microbial numbers

Week 4: Physico-chemical operations and processes – I: Screens, grit chamber, skimming tank, theory of sedimentation, primary sedimentation

Week 5: Physico-chemical operations and processes – II: Equalization, neutralization, dissolved air floatation, flocculation, coagulation, flocculation and sedimentation

Week 6: Fundamentals and principles of biological wastewater treatment

Week 7: Aerobic wastewater treatment systems - I: Suspended growth processes

Week 8: Aerobic wastewater treatment systems - II: Attached growth processes

Week 9: Hybrid aerobic wastewater treatment systems

Week 10: Advanced anaerobic wastewater treatment systems

Week 11: Emerging biological processes for Nutrient removal and tertiary treatment systems

Week 12: Guidelines for operation of treatment plant, suggestions for frequent troubleshooting, Case studies

Books and references

1. Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse, Metcalf and Eddy Inc. George Tchobanoglous, et al.
2. Industrial Water Pollution Control, W.W. Eckenfelder
3. Wastewater to Water: Principles, Technologies and Engineering Design, Makarand M. Ghangrekar, Springer.

Instructor bio

Prof. Gourav Dhar Bhowmick

IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Gourav Dhar Bhowmick joined IIT Kharagpur, India, in 2021, where he is currently an Assistant Professor in the Aquacultural Engineering Specialization of the Agricultural and Food Engineering Department. He did his M.Tech. and Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur, India, and then he went to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, to do his Post-Doctoral research. He is a recipient of the prestigious GYTI award 2016. He has published 34 international peer-reviewed journal papers and presented his research to 12 International conferences. Prof. Gourav Dhar Bhowmick has expertise in developing bio-engineering interfaces for aquaculture in areas like engineering and design of aquacultural facilities, commissioning, operation, materials selection, and their uses in recirculatory aquaculture systems. He is now investigating the smart aquaponics systems for urban farming. Other than that, Dr. Bhowmick is also working on the end-of pipe treatment of marine and freshwater aquaculture systems, focusing on pollutant removal and biogas production in line with residual resources engineering for environmental remediation.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Date and Time of Exams: April 26, 2025 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.

Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.

Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

Please note that assignments encompass all types (including quizzes, programming tasks, and essay submissions) available in the specific week.

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team