3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4017210ENR for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (E) Master - advanced level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Partnership Agreement
- Under agreement for exchange of courses
- Faculty
- Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen
- Department
- Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry
- External partners
- Université libre de Bruxelles
- Educational team
- Benoît Haut
(course titular)
Marijke Huysmans
- Activities and contact hours
-
24 contact hours Lecture
12 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
- Course Content
- 1. Introduction: histrorical aspects, watercycles, potable water. (2h, ULB)
2. Hydrogeology: waterinfiltration, sources, groundwater, surfacewater. (4h, VUB, O. Battelaan)
3. Chemistry and biochemistry of water: quality norms, desinfectionmethods, biochemical and chemical treatment) (4h, VUB. H. Verelst)
4. Calculation and technology of distributionsystems and sewers. (4h, ULB)
5. Mechanical unit operations in water treatment: flocculaton, filtraton, sedimentation, ozonation. (4h, ULB)
6. Tretment of municipal wastewater. Norms, methods. (2h, ULB)
7. Civil engineering aspects of watertransport systems. (2h, VUB, W. Bauwens)
8. Technology and calculation of collectorunits (2h, VUB. W. Bauwens)
9. Organised plant visits. Drinkwatercaptation: surface and groundwater. Watercollectorsystems, water treatment plant. (12h)
- Course material
- Digital course material (Required) : Cursus kadert in het aanbieden vanwege van bedrijf Vivaqua (Brusselse Maatschappij voor watervoorziening)
Digital course material (Required) : Nota's en transparanten ter beschikking gesteld tijdens de les.
- Additional info
- Course notes and slides used during class sessions.
- Learning Outcomes
-
Algemene competenties
Free elective course, related to the external Vivaqua chair. Integrated course concerning water purification and tretment: from source till emission. (12 hours course at VUB, 12 hours course at ULB, 12 hours of plant visits)
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- mondeling examen
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
Note: Mondeling examen met schriftelijke voorbereiding (3 tot 4 vragen). Examen gebeurt naar keuze van de student in de respectievelijke taal waarin een bepaald deel is gedoceerd, of volledig in het Nederlands.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
- Oral exam with written preparation. 3 up to 4 questions. Student can make a choose for the exam language: Dutch or French, or both.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Civil Engineering: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Chemical and Materials Engineering: Profile Process Technology (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Chemical and Materials Engineering: PR Profile Materials (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Chemical and Materials Engineering: Profile Materials
Master of Chemical and Materials Engineering: Profile Process Technology
Master of Civil Engineering: Standaard traject (BRUFACE)
Master of Architectural Engineering: default