WAT 210 - Wastewater Treatment: Indus

1. Describe the qualifications and duties of an industrial plant operator.
   1. Explain educational requirements for an operator.
   2. Describe an operator’s role as a water quality protector.
   3. Describe skills and abilities needed for operators in various size and types of industrial treatment plants.
   4. Explain future job opportunities and additional training needed for staff at an industrial treatment plant.
2. Describe treatment of industrial and municipal wastewaters.
   1. Identify types of waste discharges and explain effects on receiving waters.
   2. Describe types of solids found in wastewater.
   3. Explain natural purification cycles in wastewater treatment.
   4. Identify and explain the various reasons for treatment of industrial wastes.
   5. Explain the importance of understanding the sources of industrial wastes.
   6. Describe the types and characteristics of industrial wastes, how they are generated, and effects on collection and treatment systems.
   7. Identify types of manufacturing processes that generate industrial wastes.
3. Describe water pollution control statutes and regulations on discharging of industrial wastewater.
   1. Describe federal pollution control regulations and the agency responsible for developing and enforcing them.
   2. Explain the NPDES permit program and identify the program categories .
   3. Explain the National Pretreatment Program regulations; identify pollutants, prohibited discharges, and industrial categories.
   4. Describe types, reporting requirements, and modifications of categorical standards.
   5. Explain local codes and ordinances that affect wastewater, sewer, underground tanks, building, and land use.
   6. Describe current federal statutes and regulations.
4. Describe the preventative approach to minimizing the amount of wastes generated.
   1. Explain the strategy, regulatory requirements, economic benefits, and role of the industrial treatment operator in pollution prevention.
   2. Identify opportunities for prevention of industrial pollution.
   3. Describe pollution prevention opportunity checklists for metal finishing and chemicals formulating industries.
5. Describe industrial waste monitoring.
   1. Explain objectives of an industrial waste monitoring program.
   2. Develop and safely maintain a monitoring program.
   3. Describe sampling types, points, and equipment for monitoring programs.
   4. Identify type of discharge problem and locate industrial source.
   5. Properly collect, preserve, and label samples.
   6. Explain flow data and need for accurate metering.
   7. Develop strategies for monitoring discharges in all industrial situations.
6. Explain use of flow meters and evaluation of flow in industrial wastewater treatment plants.
   1. Describe types of flow and measurement devices.
   2. Identify primary and secondary open channel elements.
   3. Identify mechanical, acoustic, and differential pressure devices that measure flow in closed pipes.
   4. Calculate flow under all conditions.
   5. Identify and explain basic methods that check accuracy of flow meters.
   6. Identify various treatment plant flows and the appropriate flow measurement device for each flow.
   7. Describe a flow-proportioned composite sample.
7. Describe preliminary treatments of industrial wastewaters.
   1. Describe needs and benefits of equalization of industrial wastewater flow.
   2. Describe characteristics of a well designed and properly operating flow equalization tank.
   3. Identify screen types and explain maintenance, operation, and safety procedures for each type.
   4. Explain pH adjustment in wastewater; the chemicals used and titration procedure followed.
   5. Describe use of pH sensors and identify factors that affect them.
   6. Describe elements, transmitters, and controllers in a successful pH control system.
   7. Identify and explain various pH adjustment systems used to treat industrial wastewaters.
   8. Maintain equipment and troubleshoot problems for pH adjustment systems.
8. Explain physical-chemical treatment processes in industrial wastestreams.
   1. Explain need for coagulation and flocculation to efficiently remove solids.
   2. Identify chemicals used to settle solids.
   3. Explain collection and testing procedures used to select proper chemical products and determine correct dosage.
   4. Identify and describe equipment needed for treatment process.
   5. Explain safe operation, start-up, and maintenance for the treatment process under all conditions.
   6. Describe operation and maintenance of dissolved air flotation (DAF) process.
9. Describe filtration in industrial wastewater treatment facilities.
   1. Explain types, parts, instrumentation, and safe operation of gravity filters.
   2. Identify typical facilities for inert-media pressure filters and describe their safe operation and maintenance under all conditions.
   3. Explain safe operation and maintenance of continuous backwash, upflow, deep-bed silica sand media filters.
   4. Identify types and describe membrane configurations of cross flow membrane filtration process.
   5. Identify and explain basic elements of a membrane filtration process.
   6. Describe safe and accurate operation, cleaning, sampling, and recordkeeping of a cross flow membrane system.
   7. Describe flux, mineral rejection, and water recovery of reverse osmosis.
10. Explain the physical treatment processes in industrial wastewater treatment facilities.
    1. Describe purpose, equipment, control methods, and safe operation of various types of air stripping systems.
    2. Identify types of activated carbon and explain process and purpose of activated carbon adsorption.
    3. Explain start-up, operating procedures, and shut down of the carbon adsorption unit under all conditions.
    4. Explain the activated carbon regeneration process.
    5. Describe sampling and analysis procedures for the activated carbon process.
    6. Explain safety procedures followed in an activated carbon adsorption process.
    7. Identify and explain items to consider for plans and specifications of an activated carbon adsorption process.
11. Describe treatment of industrial metal wastestreams.
    1. Identify industrial sources that produce metal wastestreams.
    2. Identify and describe types of metal wastestreams.
    3. Identify and explain various processes for treating metal wastestreams.
    4. Explain the instrumentation and controls process needed for treating metal wastestreams.
    5. Describe dewatering and drying methods used for reduction of sludge volume.
    6. Explain operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting for an industrial metal wastestream treatment process.
    7. Safely perform all duties in an industrial metal wastestream facility.
12. Describe biological treatments for industrial wastewater treatment.
    1. Describe package plants and their purpose.
    2. Start-up, operate, maintain, and shutdown package plants under all conditions.
    3. Describe oxidation ditches and their use.
    4. Start-up, operate, maintain, and shutdown oxidation ditches under all conditions.
    5. Describe trickling filter systems and their purpose.
    6. Start-up, operate, maintain, and shutdown trickling filter systems.
    7. Describe an anaerobic lagoon and their use.
    8. Start-up, operate, maintain, and shutdown anaerobic lagoons.
    9. Describe activated sludge wastewater treatment and their purpose.
    10. Start-up, operate, maintain, and shutdown activated sludge wastewater treatment.
13. Explain the industrial wastewater treatment instrumentation measurement and control Systems
    1. Describe the purpose of the measurement process and control systems.
    2. Identify electrical, mechanical, and other safety hazards with instrumentation and control systems.
    3. Identify types of sensors/transducers and explain variable with measurements, flow, and chemical feed rate.
    4. Identify various categories of instrumentation and explain their function.
    5. Describe start-up, operation, shutdown, and maintenance of instrumentation systems.
14. Describe potential hazards that may be encountered and safety guidelines to follow at an industrial waste treatment plant
    1. Identify and describe types of hazards operators are exposed to at all locations.
    2. Identify specific hazards at collection systems, pumping stations, treatment plants, and industrial waste treatment plants.
    3. Describe safety awareness during wastewater sampling, equipment use, and testing procedures in the laboratory.
    4. Explain fire control methods and prevention practices in a treatment plant.
    5. Explain importance of protection and testing of potable water.
    6. Identify types of safety equipment and emergency contact information that should be recorded and posted in facilities.
    7. Explain purpose of tailgate safety meetings.
    8. Identify critical safety points at a facility and develop a safety training program from them.
    9. Describe the basic elements to the Workers Right-To-Know Laws.
15. Describe a maintenance program for an industrial wastewater treatment plant.
    1. Explain maintenance programs for buildings, grounds, tanks, and channels.
    2. Explain start-up, shutdown, and operating problems for all mechanical equipment used in treatment plants.
    3. Explain need for operators to understand electricity and maintain electrical equipment.
    4. Describe maintenance of the electrical systems equipment used in wastewater collection systems and treatment plants.
    5. Identify types of motors and explain the maintenance and troubleshooting procedures for them.
    6. Develop an effective preventive maintenance program for service of mechanical equipment and keep accurate records.
    7. Review new plans and specifications for ease of maintenance on station pumps, equipment, and instrumentation.