Details
1-day course
CPD Credit: 6 hours; Competence/s: 1
Course Delivery Options
Course Overview
The course has been developed by our industrial and process water and wastewater treatment experts at Engineers Ireland and is designed to support organisations and individuals with responsibility for the operation and management of commercial, industrial and process water and wastewater treatment systems. The course forms an essential learning foundation to further study and covers the basic chemistry of water and wastewater, its use in industrial and commercial applications, and why and how it is typically treated.
Course Programme
This is a one-day online training course. The course programme is structured as follows:
Introduction: Introduction to the course and the subjects covered.
Water and wastewater sources: A review of the common sources of water and wastewater and where water is used in domestic, commercial, industrial and process environments.
Chemistry of water and wastewater contaminants: A review of the chemical constituents of water, common contaminants of water and wastewater
Water and wastewater analysis: An introduction to water analysis techniques.
Water analysis instrumentation: A review of the equipment commonly used to analyse water.
Water and wastewater analysis: An examination of the different methods of testing to include:
- COD
- BOD
- Suspended Solids
- Ammonia
- Nitrate
- Nitrite
- Total Nitrogen
- Orthophosphate
- Total Phosphorus
- Surfactants (cationic and anionic)
- Chloride
- Flouride
- pH
- Alkalinity
- Iron
- Manangese
- Alumimium
- Microscopic examination of activated sludge
- Other on request
Learning Outcomes
This course will give candidates an understanding of the common sources of water and wastewater and how water is used in different ways in commercial, industrial and process environments.
This course will also help candidates understand the basic chemistry of water and wastewater, common contaminants and the problems that can result from using water and wastewater containing these contaminants.
Candidates will gain a basic understanding of how to manage and control engineered systems in which water and wastewater is used to achieve optimum efficiency and cost effectiveness.
Additionally, candidates will develop an understanding of how to perform basic water analysis and testing, and how to interpret the results so as to monitor, control and manage the consequences of these parameter.
Who Should Attend?
Typical candidates will be water treatment engineers, facilities managers, maintenance and engineering contractors, and those with responsibility for the operation of commercial, industrial and process water and wastewater systems. Candidates will find this foundation course beneficial before progressing to our more specialist water and wastewater treatment training courses.
Trainer Profile
Trevor Montgomery is a Director & EHS Consultant working for Montgomery EHS Ltd with over 25 years specialising in Wastewater and Odour / VOC Treatment. Trevor has completed third level courses in Dundalk IT, Sligo IT, UCC and UCD. Trevor has developed a range of biological scrubbers for Odour and VOC’s from a variety of Industries from Animal Slaughtering, Seaweed extraction, Fish Processing, Dairy Industry, etc. Trevor is employed by a number of companies as a retained consultancy for the design of wastewater treatment and odour management. Trevor has worked with an extensive list of companies such as Thermo Fisher, Bio-Marine Ingredients, College Group, Mega Group, Carton Bros, Aurivo Ingredients, Glanbia, Silver Hill Duck, Arrabawn, Tipperary Cooperative, Hydro International, Leprino Foods to name a few. Based in Limerick, Trevor has served on policy committees for local government and lectured at various universities. Trevor has delivered over 1000 training days on these topics (1 training day is when 1 person attends 1 course for 1 day).
Please contact the CPD Training Team for further information on scheduled course dates and In-Company options.