Wastewater Treatment/Sludge Dewatering – Wastewater Treatment (WWT) is a universal technology used at almost all industrial and municipal plants. As a consequence, many plant engineers devote considerable effort to understand and operate wastewater treatment plants without much training (except for the environmental engineering graduates).
This half day course is intended to educate plant engineers on some of the whys of wastewater treatment, the regulations, biotreatment fundamentals and technologies, and wastewater sludge dewatering (as well as sludge testing methods).
About the Instructors
Stephen Constable is a senior consultant in the Wastewater Group in DuPont Engineering Research & Technology’s Environmental section. He has 22 years experience in wastewater treatment operations and design, with the last 17 years for DuPont Company’s business and production sites. Work experiences include developing numerous conceptual design and cost estimates for wastewater improvements; conducting treatability studies, assisting regulatory negotiations for water discharge permitting, assuring plant environmental compliance, and regulatory advocacy through various industry trade associations and professional organizations. Recent projects include wastewater treatment alternatives studies for anaerobic reactors, biofilters and extended aeration activated sludge treatment; biosolids reuse evaluations; metals removal alternatives studies; biocatalyst fermentation residuals disposal and reuse options evaluations and wastewater treatment effluent recycle. Steve is leader of DuPont’s Biosolids Team, which assesses new biosolids treatment and reuse technologies and assists site sludge management evaluations and optimizations.
Dr. Ernie Mayer is a Senior Consultant with DuPont, Wilmington, DE specializing in SLS technology since 1980. He received his B.S. and M.S. Chem. Eng. Degrees from Columbia University, New York City, NY and Ph.D. in Chem. Eng. From U. of Delaware, Newark, DE. Dr. Mayer has a brilliant professional career, among his numerous awards are Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Deans’ Lists, 3 Eng. Excellence Awards, 7 Environmental Respect Awards; Class ‘A’ bonus, AFSS Frank Tiller award in 1996, AFSS Fellow award in 2000, and Lifetime Achievement award in 2005 (first non-academic to receive it). He is a member of AWWA, AlChE, WEF, and AFSS (Board of Directors since 1988, Chairman of Chapter Affairs/Users Committee; plus member of three other committees). He has organized/chaired three technical conferences and was the Co-chair of World Filtration Congress in 2004. He published over 200 papers/publications and has 2 patents. In 1991, a remediation technology developed by him was accepted into the EPA SITE program. At the request of President Jimmy Carter, he was asked to participate in the Three-Mile Island nuclear cleanup in 1980. His name is listed in Who’s Who in America; Who’s Who in Science and Environmental Technology; etc.
Short Course Registration Rates
****Short Course attendees receive discounts if they attend the conference (-$100) and if they are members (-$100). For a total possible discount of -$200.****
These discounts are for each short course. If you attend two half day courses, the discount is applied to each course. It pays to be a member.
Registration Rates before discount is figured.
Early
Standard
Late
Course Type
Starts 6/1/08
Starts 8/17/08
Half day
$450
$525
$575
The online registration automatically calculates the discounts.