Lectures on: Water resources management, Water treatment Wastewater treatment, Monitoring and control of water quality and treatment processes, Working with literature databases, Project report/scientific writing. Hands on practice: lab analysis and process simulation software Excursions: to water and wastewater treatment plants

Knowledge: students should have an understanding of the basic principles in modern water resources management, European water legislations, theoretical understanding of the main treatment processes and, operational aspects a treatment plant. They should possess basic understanding of state-of-the-art techniques on process control and optimization they must have an understanding of the modern simulation and design tools available for treatment plants and their capabilities. Professional skills: students should be able design modern river basin structures using best practices and to understand the composition of a treatment plant and identify and improve general operational problems. They should be able to carry out basic water quality analysis and how to utilize the water quality data in WRM and operational improvement of treatment plants. They should be able to carry out a literature review using modern scientific databases and internet and to prepare a well-structured project report. General competence: students should have an understanding of the development trends in the European water legislation and practices, be able to identify the advantages/weaknesses in a WRM setup and to propose improvements based on modern practices. They should also have a general process optimization knowledge using lab- and full scale experiments and possibilities with simulation programs.

(1) Lectures (2) analytical work in small teams, (3) Tutorials with process simulation program STOAT, (4) excursion to treatment plant(s) to learn how the unit processes are integrated and their operational challenges. (5) instructions and hands-on practice in usage of scientific databases and reporting. Most of the presentations will be available in Fronter before the lectures

By email or pre-agreed meetings with lectueres

Compulsory participation in all activities during the first two weeks of intensive work + Project report

THT 310 og THT 311 har ca 50% overlapping.

Part-1: First two weeks of intensive, full-time work: 50 hours of lectures, 6-10 hours of analytical work, 6-10 hours of process simulation exercises, 20 hours of excursions. Part-II: Project work (can be carried out outside of UMB). Part-III: submission of the project report

The course is organised as an intensive/full-time 2-weeks course in June/July at NMBU and an independent project work carried out either from Norway or abroad in December.

The external examiner approves plans for the project work and its assessment. The examiner actively assures the quality of the course content and teaching.