Archive:Drinking water treatment
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Content summary
Herein we first explore the subject of drinking water, focusing on the physical characteristics and the natural processes involved. Then we apply these studies to the engineering of devices to treat water so that it becomes wholesome and potable.
Learning Materials
Texts
- General Biology; Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection
- Cell Biology; Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection
- Biochemistry; Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection
- General Chemistry; Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection
Drinking Water Treatment Engineering Lessons
- Temperature
- Density
- Salinity
- Turbidity
- Chemistry
- Groundwater
- Mineral contamination
- Anthropogenic contamination
- Surface-water
- Desalination
- Conventional Filtration
- Agglomeration
- Sedimentation
- Filtration
- Microfiltration
- Ultrafiltration
- Nanofiltration
- Oxidation
- Chloramination
- Inactivation
Study guide:
- Physical Properties of Drinking water
- Wikipedia article:Temperature
- Wikipedia article:Density
- Wikipedia article:Salinity
- Wikipedia article:Chemistry
- Drinking water disinfection
- Wikipedia article:Disinfection
- Wikipedia article:Sphagnum (per "Man vs. Wild")
References
Additional helpful readings include:
- MIT OCW - Water treatment course
- MIT OCW - Environmental health course
- MIT OCW - Systems microbiology course
- MIT OCW - Transport Processes in the Environment course
- MIT OCW - Groundwater Hydrology course
- MIT OCW - Chemicals in the Environment: Fate and Transport course
- MIT OCW - Water Resource Systems course
- MIT OCW - Aquatic Chemistry course
- MIT OCW - Water and Sanitation Infrastructure in Developing Countries course
- MIT OCW - Environmental Microbiology course