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MIT OpenCourseWare
Water and Wastewater Treatment Engineering
Art: Zhong you he gong quan tu. LOC gm71002470, 1898 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Dr. Peter Shanahan
- Term
- Spring 2006
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 78 other files · 5 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 1.85 Water and Wastewater Treatment Engineering, Spring 2006, Dr. Peter Shanahan — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- A lecture sequence of 22 items is confirmed. Assignment and exam materials exist too, but MIT's own order for them could not be verified, so they're shown as materials below rather than a sequence.
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Materials by section
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Lecture Notes
22 files
- Introduction to Water Supply and Wastewater Download
- Why Treat Water and Wastewater? Water Quality Parameters and Standards Download
- Reactor Tanks - Mixed Tanks, First-order Kinetics, Plug Flow Download
- Reactor Tanks - Dispersed Flow, Tanks-In-Series, Residence Time Distribution Download
- Sedimentation-Flocculation - Part 1 Download
- Sedimentation-Flocculation - Part 2 Download
- Filtration Download
- Chemical Treatment - Softening - Part 1 Download
- Chemical Treatment - Softening - Part 2 Download
- Chemical Treatment - Adsorption and Ion Exchange Download
- Gas Transfer and Air Stripping Download
- Disinfection Download
- Wastewater Screening, Primary Treatment Download
- Biological Reaction Kinetics - Part 1 Download
- Biological Reaction Kinetics - Part 2 Download
- Stabilization Ponds Download
- Activated Sludge Treatment - Part 1 Download
- Activated Sludge Treatment - Part 2 Download
- Trickling Filters, Biological Contactors Download
- Nutrient Removal Download
- Sludge Handling Download
- Sludge Digestion Download
Assignments
16 problem sets
- Problem Set 1 Download
- Problem Set 1 · Solutions Download
- Problem Set 2 Download
- Problem Set 2 · Solutions Download
- Problem Set 3 Download
- Problem Set 3 · Solutions Download
- Problem Set 4 Download
- Problem Set 4 · Solutions Download
- Problem Set 5 Download
- Problem Set 5 · Solutions Download
- Problem Set 6 Download
- Problem Set 6 · Solutions Download
- Problem Set 7 Download
- Problem Set 7 · Solutions Download
- Problem Set 8 Download
- Problem Set 8 · Solutions Download
Exams
Projects
- Design Project Ideas Download
- MIT Kresge Parking Lot: Development of Rain Garden to Control Stormwater Runoff Download
- Distributing Responsibility for Clean Water: The Total Maximum Daily Load (TDML) Program Download
- Water Stabilization Pond Design for Puerto Ayoro, Galapagos Islands Download
- Irvine Ranch Water District of California’s Water Reclaimation Plant Download
Other materials from this course
31 files
- This resource contains solutions of 3 questions asked in Homework 1 (Homework1Solutions.pdf) Download
- This resource contains solution of 1 question asked in Homework 2 (Homework2Solutions.pdf) Download
- This resource contains solutions of 3 questions asked in Homework 3 (Homework3solutions.pdf) Download
- This resource contains solutions of 4 questions asked in Homework 5 (Homework5solutions.pdf) Download
- This resource contains solutions of 4 questions asked in Homework 6 (Homework6solutions.pdf) Download
- This resource contains 3 questions based on professional practice, the wastewater treatment… (homework_1.pdf) Download
- This resource contains 1 question based on wastewater treatment system (homework_2.pdf) Download
- This resource contains 3 questions based on testing of wastewater, and 2 textbook problems (homework_3.pdf) Download
- This resource contains 2 questions based on filteration of spherical particles, and one textbook… (homework_4.pdf) Download
- This resource contains solutions of 2 questions asked in Homework 4 (homework_4_sol.pdf) Download
- This resource contains 2 problems based on sludge wastewater treatment plant, and volume of the… (homework_7.pdf) Download
- This resource contains solutions of 2 questions asked in Homework 7 (homework_7_sol.pdf) Download
- This resource includes handwritten notes of the Instructor on the topic: Sedimentation Flocculation (l05_06_sedimenta.pdf) Download
- This resource includes handwritten notes of the Instructor on the topic: Chemical Treatment… (l08_09_lime_soft.pdf) Download
- This resource includes handwritten notes of the Instructor on the topic: Gas Transfer and Air… (l12_air_striping.pdf) Download
- This resource includes Instructor's handwritten notes on the topic: Disinfection (l13_disinfection.pdf) Download
- This resource includes handwritten notes of the Instructor on the topic: Wastewater Screening… (l14_wastwatr_pr.pdf) Download
- This resource includes handwritten notes of the Instructor on the topic: Biological Reaction… (l16_17_reac_kine.pdf) Download
- This resource includes handwritten notes of the Instructor on the topic: Stabilization Ponds (l18_stabili_pond.pdf) Download
- This resource includes handwritten notes of the Instructor on the topic: Activated Sludge Treatment (l19_activ_slud_1.pdf) Download
- This resource includes handwritten notes of the Instructor on the topic: Activated Sludge Treatment (l20_acti_slud_2.pdf) Download
- This resource includes handwritten notes of the Instructor on the topic: Trickling Filters… (l21_trick_filter.pdf) Download
- This resource includes handwritten notes of the Instructor on the topic: Nutrient Removal (l22_nutrient_rem.pdf) Download
- This resource includes handwritten notes of the Instructor on the topic: Sludge Handling (l23_sludge.pdf) Download
- This resource includes handwritten notes of the Instructor on the topic: Sludge Digestion (l24_sludge_stabi.pdf) Download
- This resource contains solutions of 4 questions asked in final exam (Finalexamsolutions.pdf) Download
- This resource contains the graphs and spreadsheet solutions for midterm (midterm_solution.xls) Download
- This resource contains 5 questions based on water-quality characteristics (midterm.pdf) Download
- This resource contains 4 questions based on wastewater treatment (final.pdf) Download
- This resource contains solutions of 5 questions asked in midterm (midterm_solution.pdf) Download
- This resource contains a review of midterm handwritten by the Instructor (midterm_review.pdf) Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Why Treat Water and Wastewater? Water Quality Parameters and Standards
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Lecture 3: Reactor Tanks - Mixed Tanks, First-order Kinetics, Plug Flow
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Lecture 4: Reactor Tanks - Dispersed Flow, Tanks-In-Series, Residence Time Distribution
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Lecture 5: Sedimentation-Flocculation - Part 1
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Lecture 6: Sedimentation-Flocculation - Part 2
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Lecture 7: Filtration
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Lecture 8: Chemical Treatment - Softening - Part 1
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Lecture 9: Chemical Treatment - Softening - Part 2
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Lecture 10: Chemical Treatment - Adsorption and Ion Exchange
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Lecture 11: Gas Transfer and Air Stripping
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Lecture 12: Disinfection
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Lecture 13: Wastewater Screening, Primary Treatment
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Lecture 14: Biological Reaction Kinetics - Part 1
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Lecture 15: Biological Reaction Kinetics - Part 2
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Lecture 16: Stabilization Ponds
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Lecture 17: Activated Sludge Treatment - Part 1
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Lecture 18: Activated Sludge Treatment - Part 2
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Lecture 19: Trickling Filters, Biological Contactors
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Lecture 20: Nutrient Removal
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Lecture 21: Sludge Handling
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Lecture 22: Sludge Digestion
MIT OpenCourseWare, Dr. Peter Shanahan, 1.85 Water and Wastewater Treatment Engineering, Spring 2006.
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