This interactive 12hr course is built around forecasting water quality and addressing treatment plant performance issues arising from changing feed water conditions.
This is an interactive two-day course built around forecasting water quality and addressing treatment plant performance issues arising from changing feed water conditions. Engineers will learn to understand the influence of water chemistry on process design and how to use this knowledge to optimise performance. Participants will also design new treatment plants and size equipment using comprehensive software that integrates material and heat balancing, equipment sizing, stream property and solubility prediction.
Each module includes realistic scenarios for advanced water treatment applications including boiler feedwater, cooling water blowdown, industrial wastewater, seawater desalination, mine dewatering and brine management. Up to 21 technologies in water treatment will be explored during the sessions.
Participants will receive detailed notes for each module and a three month free subscription to AqMBTM process simulation software for water treatment.
Issues addressed
DAY 1
- Module 1 – Water Chemistry Essentials
- A comprehensive overview of essential water quality properties for treatment plant design
- Basic theory around chemical equilibrium, reaction kinetics and redox potential
- An introduction to solubility modelling, the impact of dissolved gases on redox and equilibrium chemistry and how process kinetics can affect scale formation and corrosion.
- Module 2 – Unit Operation Types
- An overview of most technologies used in water treatment
- Modes of action defining separation for each technology
- Key advantages and disadvantages of each technology
- Guidance on technology selection.
- Module 3 – Configuring Flowsheets for Process Design
- Developing a feed water scenario for typical and boundary condition
- Process design considerations, constraints, performance objectives and assumptions
- For a given feed water specification, generate a first pass integrated process design and mass balance
- Identify which parameters impact equipment performance and treated water quality.
DAY 2
- Module 4 – Process Modelling for Performance Optimisation
- An overview of each unit operation, their key process parameters (design/operational) and how they are used in each model simulate equipment performance
- Learn how to optimise a process design for performance objectives by refining process design parameters for each unit operation
- Conduct a solubility survey to understand the interaction of inorganic/organic species under different conditions and what does this really mean for the performance of each unit operation
- Model boundary conditions to establish the performance limitations of a process design.
- Module 5 – Process Economics and Lifestyle Evaluation
- Produce vendor data sheets and RFQ documentation for equipment pricing
- Calculate power, chemical and consumable operating costs
- Estimate turnkey capital costs for a greenfield application
- Produce a lifecycle cost evaluation for the project.
- Module 6 – Creating a Process Design or Scenario Modelling Report
- Documenting the basis of design
- Key elements of a process design report
- Addressing process risk through scenario modelling.
What do you get
- Free 3 months subscription to AqMBTM simulation software for water treatment
- Complimentary course notes and USB
- Q&A with experienced designers.
Who should attend
There is an assumed level of knowledge for this course. Please consult the AqMB User Guide if uncertain whether your level of experience is adequate.
Process engineers, consultants and operators involved in concept design, sizing and/or operation of existing physico-chemical water treatment plants involving conventional (settling, filtration), membrane, resin, electrolytic or thermal technologies.
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