Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Syracuse University

CIE 651 PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL PROCESSES

Fall 2008

Instructor: Raymond D. Letterman

361 Link Hall

Telephone - 443-3307

Email -

Course Description: This is an intermediate course on the engineering principles used to design, operate and control the physical/chemical processes of water and wastewater treatment systems. While design and operating practice is discussed the main emphasis is on the principles that guide (or should guide) the design and operation of treatment systems.

Course Prerequisites: Calculus, fluid mechanics and environmental chemistry (environmental chemistry can be a co-requisite).

Textbook: Prepublication copy of Water Quality Engineering: Physical-Chemical Processes, by D. Lawler and M. Benjamin, to be published by McGraw-Hill (2008?).

List of Topics:

Introduction (0.5 week)

Reactor design

Flow in reactors (0.5 week)

Modeling reactor performance (1 week)

Mixing of liquids (1 week)

Interfacial mass transfer (1 week)

Solid-liquid separations

Acid Neutralization (0.5 weeks)

Metals Precipitation (2 weeks)

Particle Destabilization/Flocculation (1 week)

Sedimentation (0.5 weeks)

Flotation (0.5 weeks)

Filtration (1.5 weeks)

Solute-liquid separations

Adsorption and Ion exchange (1.5 weeks)

Membrane separations (0.5 weeks)

Stripping (0.5 weeks)

Analysis of example treatment systems (1 week)

Potable water treatment

Acid Mine Drainage Treatment

Groundwater decontamination

Handouts: Handouts will be distributed and reserve reading will be assigned. A good reference book for many of the topics covered in the course is Water Quality and Treatment, McGraw-Hill (1999).

Grading: Homework - 22%, two class exams - 48%, final exam - 30%.

There will be 8-10 homework assignments. Assignment sheets will be posted on the Blackboard web site .edu and I will distribute hard copies in class.

Other References:

Weber, W. J., Jr. and DiGiano, F. A., Process Dynamics n Environmental Systems, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1996.

Montgomery, Watson, Harza, Inc., Water Treatment, Principles and Design, 2nd eidition, Wiley – Interscience, New York, 2005.

Weber, W. J., Jr., Physicochemical Processes for Water Quality Control, Wiley- Interscience, New York, 1972.

Benefield, L. D., Judkins, J. F., and Weand, B. L., Process Chemistry for Water and Wastewater Treatment, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1982.

Levenspiel, O., Chemical Reaction Engineering, 3rd edition, Wiley, New York, 1997.

Morel, F. M. M., and Hering, J. G., Principles and Applications of Aquatic Chemistry, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1993.

Snoeyink, V. L. and Jenkins, D., Water Chemistry, Wiley, New York, 1980.

Benjamin, M. M., Water Chemistry, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2002.

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