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Pennsylvania Wastewater and Ethics 24 PDH Discount Package 3

PACKAGE NO: PA24C-19
PACKAGE PDH: 24
PACKAGE PRICE: $288
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COURSE TITLE: An Introduction to Control and Chemical Feeding for Wastewater Treatment
COURSE NO: C02-051
An Introduction to Control and Chemical Feeding for Wastewater Treatment
Course Highlights

This online engineering PDH course presents criteria on metering, instrumentation, controls, and chemical feeding devices used in wastewater disposal systems. Specific design problems may require departures from these practices; therefore, use these criteria with discretion.

 

For example, use of computers and microprocessors for data logging, indication, and process control is considered an emerging technology. This technology is presently primarily applicable to large wastewater treatment plants with adequately trained staff to maintain the hardware (greater than 10 Mgd size). However, improvements in electronics, hardware, software, and sensing devices (primarily sensing elements) will make this technology more desirable for smaller plants. Detailed information is not included for such emerging technology because of its state of rapid change and because additional development and application experience need to occur before application to the smaller facilities is justified.

 

This 2 PDH online course is intended for engineers and other design and construction professionals seeking an introduction to the process technologies, equipment and design practices for controlling and chemically treating industrial and oily wastewater.

Learning Objectives

This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:

  • Learning about primary measuring devices for wastewater treatment systems
  • Learning about discrete and analog control devices and where they are applied
  • Understanding the application and limitations of mechanical, pneumatic and electrical signaling systems
  • Learning about the different chemical treatments for industrial wastewater streams containing cyanide, metals and oil
  • Learning about the different types of chemical feeders and their application and limitations
  • Knowing the basics of chemical treatment processes including adsorption, coagulation, oxidization, pH adjustment, precipitation and reduction
  • Learning about the basics of metering, instrumentation, and control requirements for industrial wastewater treatment systems
  • Learning about chemical handling and feeding systems and operations
  • Understanding the function of different chemicals for industrial and oily wastewater treatment
Course Document

In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled, "An Introduction to Control and Chemical Feeding for Wastewater Treatment".

To view, print and study the course document, please click on the following link(s):
An Introduction to Control and Chemical Feeding for Wastewater Treatment (717 KB)
Course Quiz
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of fifteen (15) questions to earn 2 PDH credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.

 

The minimum passing score is 70%. There is no time limit on the quiz, and you can take it multiple times until you pass at no additional cost.
Certificate of Completion

Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.

COURSE TITLE: An Introduction to Domestic Wastewater Treatment
COURSE NO: C02-029
An Introduction to Domestic Wastewater Treatment
Course Highlights

This online engineering PDH course will introduce you to the basics of domestic wastewater treatment. You will learn about preliminary measures, pretreatment, primary, secondary and advanced treatment processes, and sludge treatment and disposal. Approximate performance data for different treatment processes will be included, as well as comments on operational characteristics of processes. Basic design considerations for selecting treatment processes and sizing plants will be discussed. Normal domestic, non-domestic and industrial wastewater characteristics will be considered, as will the impact of stormwater on domestic wastewater treatment plants.  Factors to be considered in site selection will be addressed.

 

This 2 PDH online course is intended for engineers and other design and construction professionals interested in gaining an understanding of the process technologies, equipment and design practices needed to treat domestic wastewater and treat and dispose of the resultant sludge.

Learning Objectives

This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:

  • Learning the design and operational objectives of domestic wastewater treatment plants
  • Learning about the major factors to consider in siting domestic wastewater treatment plants, including topography, availability of a suitable discharge point, working and public areas, and community master plan considerations
  • Learning about typical compounds that inhibit biological wastewater treatment processes and how they can be mitigated
  • Learning the definitions and characteristics of preliminary, primary, secondary and advanced domestic wastewater treatment processes
  • Learning about preliminary treatment processes including equalization, neutralization, temperature adjustment, nutrient addition, screening and grit removal
  • Learning about primary treatment processes including sedimentation and dissolved air flotation
  • Learning about secondary treatment processes including activated sludge, aerated ponds, aerobic-anaerobic ponds, trickling filters, chemical oxidation, chemical mixing flocculation and clarification, gravity filtration, pressure filtration, dissolved air flotation with chemicals, and anaerobic contact
  • Learning about advanced treatment processes including advanced carbon adsorption, micro straining filtration, land treatment, subsurface disposal, and groundwater recharge
  • Learning about sludge treatment processes including anaerobic digestion, aerobic digestion, autoclaving, elutriation, vacuum filtration, centrifugation, sand beds and presses
  • Learning about sludge disposal including incineration, wet oxidation, land disposal and sanitary landfills
Course Document

In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled, "An Introduction to Domestic Wastewater Treatment".

To view, print and study the course document, please click on the following link(s):
Introduction to Domestic Wastewater Treatment (2.2 MB)
Course Quiz
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of fifteen (15) questions to earn 2 PDH credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.

 

The minimum passing score is 70%. There is no time limit on the quiz, and you can take it multiple times until you pass at no additional cost.
Certificate of Completion

Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.

COURSE TITLE: An Introduction to Wastewater Collection and Pumping
COURSE NO: C08-010
An Introduction to Wastewater Collection and Pumping
Course Highlights

This online engineering PDH course will introduce you to the principles and practices of wastewater collection and pumping.  You will learn about preliminary sewer design issues, the hydraulic design of gravity and pressure sewers, sewer system layout, appurtenances, and structural design of sewer lines. You will be introduced to the fundamentals of pumped system design, pumping stations and equipment.  You will become familiar with sewer piping and pump station components. You will also learn how to approach evaluation and rehabilitation of existing sewer systems.

 

This 8 PDH online course is intended for civil engineers and other infrastructure design and construction professionals who want to learn about the basic technology, design guidelines and materials and equipment used in design and construction of wastewater collection and pumping systems (sanitary sewer systems) for residential, industrial and commercial developments.

Learning Objectives

This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:

  • Learning about the approach, requirements, criteria, considerations, and hydraulic calculations used in the design of gravity sewers
  • Learning about alternatives to gravity sewer systems that would require deep and expensive trench excavation, such as jacking, boring, and tunneling
  • Understanding how the operation and maintenance costs of a pumping station with a forcemain, when capitalized, may offset or be less than the construction costs of a deep gravity sewer system
  • Knowing when high groundwater, unstable soil, shallow rock, or extremely adverse topography make gravity sewers, pump or ejector stations unsuitable, low pressure systems using grinder pumps with small diameter pressure sewers may be a solution
  • Learning how to calculate the average hourly wastewater flowrate in order to design a sanitary sewer system
  • Learning how to calculate extreme peak wastewater flowrates and how to size a sanitary sewer system to accommodate them
  • Learning how to design for unintended inflow and infiltration in wastewater collection systems
  • Learning about the Manning Formula and how to use it in sewer system design
  • Understanding the importance of flow velocity in sewer pipes and velocity guidelines for various flow conditions that may be encountered
  • Knowing the basic parameters for sewer pumping station layout
  • Familiarizing with the different types of sewage pumps and ejectors and when they are used
Course Document

In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled, "An Introduction to Wastewater Collection and Pumping".

To view, print and study the course document, please click on the following link(s):
Introduction to Wastewater Collection and Pumping (1.3 MB)
Course Quiz
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of forty five (45) questions to earn 8 PDH credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.

 

The minimum passing score is 70%. There is no time limit on the quiz, and you can take it multiple times until you pass at no additional cost.
Certificate of Completion

Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.

COURSE TITLE: Background Use of Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems
COURSE NO: C02-008
COURSE PROVIDER: Gilbert Gedeon, P.E.
Background Use of Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems
Course Highlights

This online engineering PDH course describes how onsite wastewater treatment systems (OWTS) have evolved throughout the years along with changing regulations. It also discusses current uses and types (performance-based vs. prescriptive requirements) of OWTS as well as the management program problems associated with such systems. Finally, this course presents initiatives taken to improve onsite system treatment and management.

 

Onsite wastewater treatment systems have evolved from the pit privies used widely throughout history to installations capable of producing a disinfected effluent that is fit for human consumption. Although achieving such a level of effluent quality is seldom necessary, the ability of onsite systems to remove settleable solids, floatable grease and scum, nutrients, and pathogens from wastewater discharges defines their importance in protecting human health and environmental resources. In the modern era, the typical onsite system has consisted primarily of a septic tank and a soil absorption field, also known as a subsurface wastewater infiltration system, or SWIS.

 

This 2 PDH  online course is applicable to civil and environmental engineers, as well as design and construction personnel involved with the design and installation of onsite wastewater treatment systems.

Learning Objectives

This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:

  • Regulation of onsite wastewater treatment systems
  • Onsite wastewater treatment system use, distribution, and failure rate
  • Problems with existing onsite wastewater management programs
  • Performance-based management of onsite wastewater treatment systems
  • Coordinating onsite system management with watershed protection efforts
  • USEPA initiatives to improve onsite system treatment and management
Course Document

In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review Chapter 1 of the EPA Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems Manual, EPA/625/R-00/008, "Background Use of Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems". 

To view, print and study the course document, please click on the following link(s):
Background Use of Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems (1.4 MB)
Course Quiz
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of ten (10) questions to earn 2 PDH credits. The quiz will be based on Chapter 1 of this EPA publication.

 

The minimum passing score is 70%. There is no time limit on the quiz, and you can take it multiple times until you pass at no additional cost.
Certificate of Completion

Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.

COURSE TITLE: Force Main Rehabilitation
COURSE NO: C08-009
COURSE PROVIDER: Dennis G. Shin, P.E.
Force Main Rehabilitation
Course Highlights

This online engineerng PDH course presents the characteristics of force main systems, as well as force main system selection, design, operation and maintenance.

 

Force mains that carry sewage flows under pressure represent a special set of challenges for sewer rehabilitation. A rupture of a sewer force main could release millions of gallons of raw sewage into the environment posing significant health risks to the general public and significant impacts to the environment.  As some of the newer rehabilitation technologies develop a positive track record of use in sewer force mains and confidence in their design approach and installation process strengthens, more utilities are willing to consider these technologies as potential renewal solutions.

 

This 8 PDH online course is applicable to engineers involved with the design, construction, operation, maintenance, and/or rehabilitation of sewer force mains.

Learning Objectives

This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:

  • Introduction to force mains
  • Understanding the characteristics of force main systems
  • Understanding the renewal practices and technologies for force main systems
  • Considerations and methods for technology selection considerations
  • Considerations and methods force main system design and QA/QC requirements
  • Considerations and methods for operation and maintenance of force main systems
Course Document

In this professional engineering CEU course, you will need to review the EPA publication "State of Technology Report - Force Main Rehabilitation", EPA/600/R-10/044 - March 2010. 

To view, print and study the course document, please click on the following link(s):
Force Main Rehabilitation (5.7 MB)
Course Quiz
Once you complete your course review, you will need to take a multiple choice quiz consisting of forty (40) questions to earn 8 PDH credits.  The quiz will be based on this EPA publication.

 

The minimum passing score is 70%. There is no time limit on the quiz, and you can take it multiple times until you pass at no additional cost.
Certificate of Completion

Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.

COURSE TITLE: Determining Negligence in Engineering Failures
COURSE NO: LE2-012
Determining Negligence in Engineering Failures
Course Highlights

This engineering online PDH course will establish conditions under which, when an engineering failure has occurred, it can be attributed to negligence.    

 

Five causes of failure are proposed: negligence, rare failure mode, overlooked failure mode, new (previously unrecognized) failure mode, and incorrect assessment of a known risk. Negligence is the only cause that involves failing in an ethical duty.  These concepts are illustrated with five case studies of failures ranging from gross negligence to absolutely unforeseeable events: 1) the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, for which a new possible cause was identified 95 years later (2014); 2) a building collapse in Bangladesh in which over 1,000 people died—one of the worst structural engineering disasters in history; 3) a meteorite strike of a private residence; 4) the crash of the British-French Concorde supersonic airliner, caused by an unlikely tire blow-out; and 5) radiation overdoses received by patients treated by the Thorac-25 medical linear accelerator, caused by errors in the software controlling the machine.

 

The 2 PDH online course is intended for engineers concerned with ethical behavior in engineering practice.
Learning Objectives

This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:

  • Understanding the definitions of negligence and standard of care
  • Relating safety to risk
  • Knowing the principle of Knightian uncertainty
  • Avoiding the retrospective fallacy in accident investigations
  • Avoiding the fallacy, in accident investigations, of assuming perfect engineering practice
  • Using the results of failure investigations appropriately
  • Being aware of the negative effects of punishment on learning from accidents
  • Categorizing the general causes of engineering failures
Course Document
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled, “Determining Negligence in Engineering Failures,” by Mark P. Rossow, 2019.

 

To view, print and study the course document, please click on the following link(s):
Determining Negligence In Engineering Failures (1.2 MB)
Course Quiz
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of fifteen (15) questions to earn 2 PDH credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.
The minimum passing score is 70%. There is no time limit on the quiz, and you can take it multiple times until you pass at no additional cost.
Certificate of Completion

Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.

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