Heavy Metals Removal From Wastewater

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Live Online Session

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Certificate of Attendance

Course Booklet

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Comprehensive booklet with key concepts and references.

Course Overview

Industrial effluents frequently introduce toxic, non-biodegradable heavy metals—such as lead, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, mercury, arsenic, nickel, and copper—into aquatic ecosystems. This course provides an in-depth technical examination of the principles, unit operations, chemical processes, and emerging technologies used to capture, isolate, and recover heavy metals from wastewater streams. Participants will evaluate physical-chemical mechanics, regulatory compliance standards, operational cost trade-offs, and secondary waste management strategies necessary to implement effective industrial and municipal treatment trains.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Characterize heavy metal speciation, aqueous equilibrium chemistry, and toxicity profiles across common industrial effluents.

• Design and troubleshoot conventional chemical precipitation, coagulation-flocculation, and sedimentation processes.

• Model and evaluate separation mechanisms including ion exchange resins, granular activated carbon (GAC), engineered biochar, and advanced membrane systems (UF, NF, RO).

• Assess the mechanisms, kinetic limitations, and application criteria for biosorption, phytoremediation, and electrochemical technologies (electrocoagulation and electrodialysis).

• Develop safe protocols for toxic sludge dewatering, stabilization, solidification, and metal recovery to comply with environmental discharge criteria.

  Target Audience & Prerequisites

  • Target Audience: Environmental engineers, wastewater plant operators, industrial process engineers, environmental chemistry students, and environmental compliance officers.

  • Prerequisites: Fundamentals of General Chemistry and an introductory understanding of Fluid Mechanics or Environmental Engineering unit operations.

Course Language: English