CEE 577 - SURFACE WATER QUALITY MODELING
Spring Semester 2012
TuTh 9:30
Catalog Description |
CEE
577: Surface Water Quality Modeling. Credit 3. Evaluation and control of
water quality in streams, lakes, and estuaries. Mathematical analyses of patterns of water
movement and their relation to water quality. Prerequisite: CEE 371. |
Required Text: |
Chapra, Surface Water Quality Modeling, Hardbound:
McGraw Hill, 1997; or Paperback: Waveland Press, 2008. |
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References: |
Reckhow
& Chapra, Engineering Approaches for |
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Thomann
& Mueller, Principles of Surface Water Quality Modeling and Control, Harper & Row Publ., 1987. |
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Schnoor,
Environmental Modeling, J. Wiley & Sons., 1996. |
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Instructor: |
David A. Reckhow, Professor of CEE
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16c
Marston, 545-5392 |
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Office
Hours: TuWTh 11:00 to 12:00; F 10:00-12:00 |
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Goals[1]: |
1. To provide a
fundamental understanding of the means by which water quality models are
formulated so that the students are able to adapt existing models to new
situations. |
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2. To provide the students
with some direct exposure to models currently used in environmental
engineering practice for predicting water quality in rivers and lakes. This will equip them with the knowledge to
apply such models to solve simple wasteload allocation problems.. |
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3. To instruct as to how
water quality data can be analyzed and interpreted |
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4. To show how water
quality models may be calibrated, verified, and applied to environmental
engineering problems, such as total maximum daily loads or fate and transport
modeling of toxic organic chemicals. |
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5. To further develop the
students’ skills at working in teams, and presenting results in the form of
written engineering reports and oral presentations to clients or to the
public. |
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6. To acquaint the student
with current issues in surface water quality; and to make them aware of the
technical, political, ethical and sociological components of these issues. |
Prerequisites by Topic: |
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1. College Calculus. |
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2. Elementary Differential
Equations. |
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3. Basic Knowledge of
Water Quality Parameters and Wastewater Treatment |
1. Completely mixed Systems
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CSTR, waste loadings, steady state and time variable solutions
2. Incompletely mixed Systems
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PFR, mixed-flow, diffusion, dispersion
3. Water Quality Environments
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Rivers, lakes, estuaries
4. Dissolved Oxygen and
Pathogens
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Streeter-Phelps, BOD, DO, Nitrogen
5. Eutrophication and
Temperature
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Algal growth, heat budgets, light effects
6. Computer Mechanistic Models
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QUAL2E, EXAMS
7. Stochastic Models
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Export coefficients, phosphorous loading functions
8. Chemical Modeling
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Heavy metals, toxic organics, pharmaceutically-active compounds
ABET Category Content: |
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Engineering Science: 2 credits or 67% |
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Engineering Design: 1 credit or 33% |
Estimated Grading Criteria |
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Exams
(2) |
40% |
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Written
Homework |
25% |
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Class
Participation |
10% |
(attendance
is required) |
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Design\Modeling
Problems |
25% |
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100% |
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http://www.ecs.umass.edu/cee/reckhow/courses/577/