Civil and Environmental Engineering 211B
Environmental Biological Processes
SAMPLE OUTLINE
3 units
Instructor: Slawomir W. Hermanowicz
629 Davis Hall
e-mail: hermanowicz@ce.berkeley.edu
Office Hours: here
Class notes and other materials available through bSpace
This graduate course covers the fundamental concepts of biological processes that are important in natural and engineered environmental systems. The course will incorporate basic fundamentals of microbiology into a quantifiable engineering context in order to describe, predict and control behavior of environmental biological systems. The overall objective of the course is to apply the principles of microbiology and engineering to understand and solve environmental problems. This course intends to utilize the principles of microbiology together with the quantitative tools of engineering to understand, describe and predict important environmental biological processes.
Required Text:
Environmental Biotechnology: Principles and Applications, B. E. Rittmann and P. L. McCarty, 2001, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Boston Mass.
Additional Useful Texts
Biological Wastewater Treatment, C. P. L. Grady, G. T. Daigger and H. C. Lim. 1999. Marcel Dekker, Inc., N.Y. Second Edition. TD755 .G72 1999
Wastewater Engineering: Treatment, Disposal, Reuse, Metcalf and Eddy, 2003. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. Fourth Edition. TD645 .W293 2003
Anaerobic Biotechnology for Industrial Wastewater. R. E. Speece. 1996. Archae Press, Nashville, TN.
Brock Biology of Microorganisms, M. T. Madigan, J. M. Martinko, and J. Parker. 2000. Prentice Hall, N.J., Ninth Edition.
List of papers for presentations
Requirements and Grading:
Homework 25% Presentation 15%
Midterm 25% Final 35%
Each student will be responsible for one class presentation (no longer that 15 min) of an original research paper. A list of suggested papers is posted at bSpace (and will be enlarged as needed). If you see a paper you would like to present, send me an e-mail. Papers will be assigned in the order of received e-mails. If you find another paper that is relevant to the course, please show me it in advance for approval. Before each presentation, the presenting student will prepare a 1-2 page outline of major points and questions to be circulated to the class. This outline is due 3 days before the presentation. All students are required to read the outline as a basis for discussion.
Class Policy:
Homework will typically be distributed in class on Thursday and will be due in class the following Thursday. All homework assignments must be turned in to pass this course. Late work will not be graded.
Collaboration: To learn effectively the material in this class, careful understanding of the assigned reading and class lectures are required. The assignments are designed to ensure that you review and understand the relevant material. Therefore, you may discuss homework problems with the professor, teaching assistant, or other students, however, you may not examine the written work of other students (including those of a previous class). Exams will be closed book and notes and will emphasize (to the extent possible) comprehension over memorization, however the nature of the material necessitates extensive amounts of both.
Course outline: (PDF file)
Topic Assigned Reading (R&M)
1 BASICS OF MICROBIOLOGY
Background Chap 1.0-1.5
The Cell (skim 1.4)
Microbial Structure
Metabolism 1.7-1.8.0
Enzymes and Biochemistry
Cell Classification and Genetics 1.11-1.14
Basic Microbial Ecology 1.15
Waterborne Disease 1.6
2 STOICHIOMETRY AND ENERGETICS Chap. 2
Redox and Stoichiometry HO
Cell Stoichiometry 2.0-2.2
Energy Capture
Redox reactions 2.4
Electron Donors/Acceptor
Cell Metabolism 1.9-1.10
Cellular Yield 2.3
Growth Reaction Energetics 2.5-2.6
3 MICROBIAL KINETICS Chap. 3
Enzyme Kinetics
Michaelis-Menten 1.8.1, 1.8.2
Inhibition and Toxicity 3.9
Growth Kinetics 3.1, 3.2
Cell Mass Balances 3.3
SMP 3.5
Competition
4 BIOREACTOR MODELS Chap. 5
Reactor Types 5.1-5.5
Solids Separation and Cell Recycle 5.6-5.10
MCRT and Its Role in Design and Operation5.11
Reactor Dynamics HO
5 SUSPENDED GROWTH PROCESSES Chap. 6
Process Configurations 6.1, 6.2
Aeration Systems 6.4
Solid Separation 6.5, 6.7
Design and Operation 6.3, 6.6
Membrane Bioreactors 6.9 HO
6 BIOFILMS Chap. 4
Biofilm Structure HO, 4.1, 4.2
Mass Transport HO, 4.3 - 4.5
7 BIOFILM PROCESSES Chap 8: 8.1
Trickling Filters 8.2
Biological Filters 8.4
Fluidized Bed Reactors 8.5
8 NUTRIENT CONTROL
Nitrification/Denitrification 9.1 10.1
Microbiology & Biochemistry
Process Design and Operation 9.2 - 9.7, 10.2 - 10.3
Phosphorus
Microbiology & Biochemistry 11.1
Process Design and Operation 11.2 - 11.3
9 ANAEROBIC PROCESSES Chap. 13
Methanogenesis 13.1
Microbiology/Chemistry 13.3
Kinetics 13.4
Reactor Configurations
Sludge Stabilization 13.5
Wastewater Applications 13.2
10 BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN DRINKING WATER 12.1
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