Treatment and Valorization of Agricultural Wastewater

1. WASTEWATER: Terminology of wastewater and categorization (urban, agricultural, hazardous, etc.), types (liquid solids etc). Constituents in wastewater. Relevant European and National legislative framework.

2. AGRICULTURAL WASTE: Definition of agricultural waste, Categories of agricultural waste based on the sector of production (agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing), and on the sector of economic activity (primary, secondary, tertiary sector). By-products.

3. Introduction to process analysis and selection

4. Physical Unit Operations

5. Chemical Unit Operations

6. Biological Processes I (Fundamentals of biological treatment, suspended growth biological treatment processes)

7. Biological Processes II (Attached growth and combined biological tretment processes)

8. Anaerobic Biological Treatment Processes

9. Advanced wastewater treatment.

10. Disinfection processes.

11. Water Reuse / Disposal of treated wastewater in soil / Reuse and disposal of solids and biosolids

12. Sustainable agricultural and livestock waste management and treatment of (poultry units, piggery units, cheese factories, etc.)

13. Management of crop production waste (oil production, winemaking, etc.)

Laboratory exercises

1. Be familiar with laboratory equipment - Preparation of solutions

2. Acidity-Conductivity-Salinity-Dissolved Oxygen

3. Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)

4. Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)

5. Solids in water and waste

6. Determination of nutrients

7. Repeat Laboratory