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Brunel University London

Water Engineering MSc

Dr Evina Katsou


[email protected]


13 April 2016

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Course informed by industrial needs / future challenges

Holistic approach to water management & environmental impact

Sustainability: technical, economical and environmental

Scientific research and feasible innovation

Science-policy-practice interface

Young-senior synergistic activities

Aim – Key Points

To develop world class and leading edge experts on water sustainability

who are able to tackle the industry’s complex challenges at a senior level

Our strength is delivering job-ready graduates into business and

industry


Modules 13 April 2016

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Code Title Credits

CE5518 Sustainable Project Management 15

IE5605 GIS and Data analysis 15

CE5509 Water Infrastructure Engineering* 15

CE5511 Water Treatment Engineering 15

CE5514 Risk and Financial Management 15

CE5515 Hydrology & Hydraulics 15

CE5512 Water Process Engineering 15

CE5513 Research Methods 15

CE5516 Civil Engineering Dissertation 60

Accredited as a designated 'technical' MSc degree by the Joint Board of

Moderators (JBM)

* Delivered by BuroHappold


A flavour of our modules (1/2) 13 April 2016

Presentation Title 4

Water Infrastructure Engineering: Water resources infrastructure and management, Water

Treatment Plant, Groundwater, Surface water resources, Flooding and risk assessment,

Site investigation, Water supply systems, Design project

Water Process Engineering: Water Supply in the UK, Public Health Standards, Industrial

Users, Agricultural Users, Water in healthcare, Building Services Public Health

Engineering.

Water Treatment Engineering: Water and wastewater quality analysis – sampling and

methods, Sanitary microbiology, Water treatment, Desalination, Wastewater treatment and

reuse, Sanitation for developing countries, Wastewater treatment modelling, Water

recycling and reuse.

Hydrology & Hydraulics: Climate change and hydrology, Aquatic systems, Effect of climate

change and other impacts on fresh water resources, Identifying water resources,

Hydrometry, Fluid Statics, Fluid Motion, Fluid Mechanics, Boundary layers, Flow in pipes,

open channel flow, Pipe types, characteristics, selection, cavitation, pipeline materials


A flavour of our modules (2/2) 13 April 2016


GIS and Data analysis: Data and data storage formats, Using the software package QGIS,

Importing & displaying maps and data maps, Cloud based data systems – Mobile Data

Collection, Data mining and methods for classification, regression and clustering

Risk and Financial Management: Risk regulations and legislation, Risk identification,

assessment and minimisation, Estimating, budgetary planning and forecasting techniques,

Project cash flow analysis and control, Result of risk and financial factors.

Sustainable Project Management: Multidisciplinary teams and water engineering project

organisation structure, Sustainable project management and environmental issues,

management techniques in construction project planning and control; planning software,

Cost and Time estimation, Supply chain management, Site organisation and management.

Dissertation: Driven from your interests; industrial needs, our research activities

Main types - computational software and modelling, experimental, combination of

approaches, engineering design project (experiments/computation/model/ field work,

travel/placements)

Research Methods: Research Methods & Proposals, Scientific Communication &

Research Dissemination, Experimental design, Statistical analysis, Journal publication,

Innovation


Modules and Assessment

• Lectures – ‘The state-of-the-art’

• Practical sessions (specialized software)

• Lab work

• Group work (poster /oral presentation)

• Field work/trip & site visits

• Exercises, presentations & coursework

• Seminars from industrial specialists

The modules include: How you will be assessed?

Coursework

/presentation

30 %

Examination 70 %


Why this MSc?

Engineering MSc

Industrial orientation of modules addressing the challenges of the water industry

Course driven by industrial needs

Continuous improvement of course curriculum

Increase the competiveness of our students for water engineering positions and professional engineering services

Attract the best applicants that interested in water and wastewater aspects

Strong industrial advisory board

Many dissertation placement opportunities for our students giving them a closely-managed work experience

Strong mentoring scheme

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Means for excellence - Water Engineering MSc events and activities

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Site visits

Invited talks - Erasmus Agreement -Links with water practitioners

Presentations in Conferences, workshops Mobility – Erasmus agreement Dissertation placements with universities and

industrial partners Participation in national / EU projects Interaction with young and senior water

professionals

Participation in Conferences

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/water-engineering-msc


Industrial collaboration

Partnership with:o BuroHappold (Water Infrastructure Engineering)

o Anglian Water

o Thames Water

o HR Wallingford

o Thames 21

o Severn Trent

o Affinity Water

o Carbon Trust

o F&B industry (e.g. BV Dairy, Dairy Crest, Coca Cola, Northumbrian Fine Foods, Moving Food Ltd etc)

o OXFAM

o Marshalls

o Environment Agency

o Atkins

o Compactors Direct, waste Companies and other water and waste authorities / utilities /SMEs

Strong INTERNATIONAL network & links with industrial actors

From theory to practice

Strong mentoring schemehttp://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/administration/access-and-widening-participation/brunel-

university-mentoring-programmes

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/administration/access-and-widening-participation/brunel-university-mentoring-programmes


Indicative list of guest talks / site visits for

2015-16

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Visiting lecturer from the National Technical University of Athens

1 week intensive course through Erasmus Agreement

Visiting lecturer from the University of Verona 1 week intensive course through Erasmus Agreement Practical sessions and software use

Guest talk - Affinity Water IVER Water Treatment Works & Affinity Water

Guest talk - Anglian Water Research & Innovation in Anglian Water Advanced Wastewater Treatment Processes Discussion of final year projects

Guest talk – Thames 21 Thames River Watch Presentation of final year MSc projects

Guest talk – Marshalls Seminar on Sustainable Drainage System

Guest talk – Environment Agency Managing flood and coastal erosion Guest talk - UKSTT (United Kingdom Society for Trenchless Technology)

Pipeline day

Guest talk - UKSTT Seminar on trenchless methods

Guest talk - Thames Water Thames Tideway Tunnel Lee Tunnel (Infrastructure Works)

Guest talk - Atkins A Consultancy Approach to Design and Build for Contractors

Guest talk – UCL Energy modelling and water applications

IVER WTW – Affinity Water Site Visit & Educational seminarSlough STW – Thames Water Site Visit & Educational seminarChelmsford – Anglian Water Site Visit & Educational seminarBarton-on-Sea Site visit – field investigation


OUR EXCELLENCE!

Development, operation and optimization of innovative wastewater

treatment processes directed towards the circular economy concept:

converting waste streams into added value products

o Nutrient recovery/removal

o Energy recovery

o Biopolymers recovery

o Carbon footprint reduction

A number of technologies to treat municipal

and industrial effluents e.g.

o Sequencing batch reactor

o Membrane bioreactor

o Upflow anaerobic sludge blanket


New concepts for upgrading existing municipal WWTPs

Membrane

separationAlkaline

fermentationShort-cut

SBR

Fermentation

Liquid

Patented SCENA Process: Nitrogen and phosphorus removal via nitrite using sludge fermentation liquid as carbon source

Integrated nitrogen via nitrite removal and biopolymers recovery in the reject water treatment line


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Our Water Engineering MSc students have the unique opportunity to participate in on-

going National and EU projects!


SCALE

UP

Scale-up of low-carbon footprint MAterial Recovery Techniques for upgrading existing wastewater treatment

Plants (SMART-Plant)

Call: Water-1-b-2015: Water Innovation: Boosting its value for Europe

Topic: Demonstration/Pilot Activities Type of action: Innovation actions

SMART-Plant will boost the circular wastewater

management

25 partners from industry & academia

An EU Horizon 2020 Innovation Project

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/h2020-water-2015-two-stage.html

"Development of a novel model to

quantify nitrous oxide emissions in the

biological nutrient removal process of

wastewater treatment plants"

In collaboration with industrial actors

The London NERC DTPDeveloping on line tools to

monitor, control and mitigate GHG emissions in WWTPs

12 partners from industry & academia


Development and application of Novel, Integrated Tools for monitoring and managing Catchments

An EU Horizon 2020 Innovation Project

Creating a paradigm shift in water quality monitoring

Current WQ Monitoring ‘state of the art’ Monitoring & managing the water environment for 2020 – 2050

20 partners from

industry & academia


Advanced biological wastewater treatment processes

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Wastewater treatment plants of the future

shift from energy intensive wastewater treatment processes to low carbon footprint

processes & resource recovery


1) Hydrogeology of reservoirs in sedimentary settings for groundwater management in continental and coastal zones

2) Modelling flow and pollutant transport dynamics in heterogeneous carbonate reservoirs

5) Application of advanced geostatistical techniques for the modelling of environmental variables and of pollution phenomena

4) Infiltration in the unsaturated zone of heterogeneous and fractured aquifers

3) Study of non linear (non Darcian) flow and of non Fickian transport dynamics in fractured rocks

Research at USGS Menlo Park

(USA) laboratory (effect of

heterogeneity on converging

flow tracer tests)

Collaboration within the European research project‘Kontrollierter natürlicher Rückhalt und Abbau vonSchadstoffen bei der Sanierung kontaminierterGrundwässer und Böden (KORA)‘ (Germany)

Start up grant University of Queensland

(Australia). Experimental apparatus for

unsaturated fracture flow experiments at hydraulic

laboratory of School of Civil Engineering Research project

PRIMAC-

Protection of

coastal aquifers

from seawater

intrusion (European

project)

C Masciopinto, A Volpe, D Palmiotta, C. Cherubini (2010) Acombined PHREEQC-2/parallel fracture model for the simulationof laminar/non-laminar flow and contaminant transport withreactions. Journal of contaminant hydrology 117 (1), 94-108

Research at Lawrence

Berkeley National Laboratory

(LBNL) (USA)

fracture flow in the vadose zone)

Collaboration with CNR IRSA (Italy)


COST Action W2020

Our team has a strong participation in one of the largest EU consortium on water management within the framework of the EC Water2020

It consists of research institutes, SMEs, water authorities, industries

Areas

Energy efficient Technologies

Resource recovery technologies

Environmental and economic impact

Modelling

Become a Young Water Professional


Learning Technology Tools

Blackboard learn

Lectures material

Provision of guides and learning resources

Announcements, tests / quizzes

Assignments released on line

Feedback and assessment

Student polls etc.

Software use

Panopto

Lecture capture

Audio/videos of:

Key lectures and invited talks

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Brunel Educational Excellence Centre –BEEC

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRw&url=http://pebblepad.tlc.aston.ac.uk/&ei=v-nRVO__Iqyy7Qb5-4HgCw&bvm=bv.85076809,d.ZGU&psig=AFQjCNHjAX7KjXg3_WrUqAoFw2uIw5xMDA&ust=1423129395032329

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRw&url=http://pebblepad.tlc.aston.ac.uk/&ei=v-nRVO__Iqyy7Qb5-4HgCw&bvm=bv.85076809,d.ZGU&psig=AFQjCNHjAX7KjXg3_WrUqAoFw2uIw5xMDA&ust=1423129395032329


Where you can find the teaching material?

School of Engineering and Design

Blackboard learn https://blackboard.brunel.ac.uk/

CE5509 Course ID

Course catalogue

Coursework

Module outline Lectures

Lecture notes

Coursework

Supporting information


Attractive location 13 April 2016


The River PinnThe Brunel University Campus


We expect….

To collaborate with you even after your graduation from the MSc!

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Welcome at Brunel!

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Dr Evina Katsou


[email protected]

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