Package Plants for Wastewater Technology

Course Summary

This course is all about Package plants are pre-manufactured treatment facilities used to treat wastewater in small communities or on individual properties. According to manufacturers, package plants can be designed to treat flows as low as 0.002 MGD or as high as 0.5 MGD. Although they more commonly treat flows between 0.01 and 0.25 MGD (Metcalf and Eddy, 1991).

Learning Objectives

To know that the most common types of package plants are

1. 1. Extended Aeration Plants
   2. Sequencing Batch Reactors
   3. Oxidation Ditches
   4. Contact Stabilization Plants
   5. Rotating Biological Contractors
   6. Physical/Chemical Processes (Metcalf and Eddy, 1991).

This fact sheet focuses on the first three, all of which are biological aeration processes.

Course Author

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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Certificate of completion of the course

This course comes with a multiple-choice quiz. You can view the quiz and take the quiz if you are logged in your account. You can take the quiz for this online PDH course as many times until passed. The passing grade is 70% and above. After you pass the quiz simply follow the page, to pay for the course and print your certificate instantly. A copy of the certificate and receipt for this course will always be in your account.

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This online PDH course can also be used as a continuing education course for the following.

Environmental Engineering

Geologists