Study Plan
The study plan consists of 48 credit hours distributed as follows:
§ Compulsory courses: 18 credit hours
§ Elective Courses: 12 credit hours
§ Passing a comprehensive exam.
§ Dissertation: 18 credit hours
There are two tracks of specializations:
1) Water desalination track.
2) Water and wastewater treatment track.
Tables below show the study plan distributed per semester.
First Semester: 9 credit hours (Compulsory for all students)
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Course ID
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Course Title
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Type
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Credit Hours
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WTEC 9301
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Conventional Water Treatment
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Core
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3
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WTEC 9302
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Water Chemistry
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Core
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3
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WTEC 9307
WTEC 9309
WTEC 9316
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Water modeling
Ground water hydrology
Nano-technology in water applications
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Elective
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3
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Total credit hours/semester
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9
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Second Semester: 9 credit hours (all students)
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Course ID
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Course Title
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Type
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Credit Hours
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WTEC 9303
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Desalination Methods
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Core
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3
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WTEC 9304
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Water Quality Control
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Core
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3
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WTEC 9305
WTEC 9306
WTEC 9311
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Environmental statistics
Remote sensing and GIS for water resources management
Renewable energy for desalination
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Elective
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3
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Total credit hours/semester
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9
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Third Semester: 9 credit hours (Desalination track)
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Course ID
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Course Title
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Type
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Credit Hours
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WTEC 9310
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Instrumentation and control for water and wastewater processes
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Core
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3
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WTEC 9319
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Special Topics (1)
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Core
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3
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WTEC 9312
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Corrosion control in desalination industry
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Elective
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3
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WTEC 9313
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Intake design, pretreatment, post-treatment and environmental issues
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Elective
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3
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WTEC 9314
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Brine discharge management
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Elective
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3
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WTEC 9317
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Desalination economics and management
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Elective
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3
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Total credit hours/semester
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9
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Third Semester: 9 credit hours (Water and wastewater treatment track)
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Course ID
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Course Title
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Type
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Credit Hours
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WTEC 9320
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Advance wastewater treatment and design
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Core
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3
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WTEC 9323
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Special Topics (2)
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Core
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3
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WTEC 9308
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Solar Energy in Desalination Technology
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Elective
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3
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WTEC 9321
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Water microbiology
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Elective
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3
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WTEC 9315
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Water-borne diseases
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Elective
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3
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Total credit hours/semester
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9
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Comprehensive Exam to be held for students
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Fourth Semester: 9 credit hours (3 CH + 6 CH for Dissertation)
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Course ID
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Course Title
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Type
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Credit Hours
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WTEC 9318
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Seminar(Water Desalination Seminar)
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Elective
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3
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WTEC 9322
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Seminar(Water Treatment Seminar)
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Elective
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3
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Total credit hours/semester
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3
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Total credit hours for Courses
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30
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After passing the comprehensive exam, the student should signs up for the dissertation. (6 credit hours per semester).
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Courses Description
WTEC 9301 Conventional Water Treatment
This course focuses on conventional technologies for drinking water treatment. Unit processes, involved in the treatment chain, are discussed as well as the physical, chemical and biological processes involved. The emphasis is on the effect of treatment on water quality and the dimensions of the unit processes in the treatment chain. After the course one should be able to recognize the process units, describe their function, and make basic calculations for a preliminary design of a drinking water treatment plant.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following two main goals:
§ Provide significant and sustainable solutions for water scarcity in Gaza.
§ Assist in providing alternative water resources.
This is also in line with achieving the following objectives:
§ Fostering the university’s mission and vision and working towards their realization.
§ Mastering knowledge of scientific methods for research and development tasks in the field of water technology and understand and know how to resolve multidisciplinary issues of desalination, treatment, and management.
§ Providing students with up-to-date foundations and advanced methods in various domains of Water Technology.
§ Giving the students the opportunity to get experience from the study of water technology to be implemented in different fields.
§ Teaching the students the knowledge of modern concepts of Water Technology and applications.
Prerequisite: Nill
Reference Books:
1- Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations, 3rd edition by Frank R. Spellman, 2013
2- Water Treatment Processes: Simple Options 1st Edition by S. Vigneswaran, 1995
WTEC 9302 Water Chemistry
The aim of the course is to provide an introduction of equilibrium chemistry principles in aquatic systems. While software for modeling reactions and processes has advanced significantly in the recent years fundamental concepts and tools should be taught and mastered by water resource researchers. The concepts are introduced theoretically using real-world examples and practically in laboratory exercises. After completing the water chemistry class, students will acquire the skills to interpret and communicate results related to water quality. Moreover, chemical reactivity is explained by making distinction between concentration and chemical activities. Systems will be characterized using equations of mass balance, charge balance, and equilibrium constants. Changes of speciation among conjugate acid/base pairs in aqueous system will be visualized by using Log C-pH diagrams.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following main goal: Provide significant and sustainable solutions for water scarcity in Gaza.
This is also in line with achieving the following objectives:
§ Fostering the university’s mission and vision and working towards their realization.
§ Enabling students to analyze and identify requirements necessary to work accurately.
Prerequisite: Nill
Reference Books:
1- Water chemistry, 2nd edition by Mark Benjamin, 2014
2- Chemistry of water treatment, 2nd edition by Samuel Faust & Osman Aly, 1998
WTEC 9303 Desalination Methods
This course introduces the principles and modern concepts of desalination methods as well as desalination sustainability. It allows the students to gain essential and scientific knowledge of both membrane and thermal desalination processes theoretically and practically for brackish and seawaters. This also involves experimental work where the students apply their theoretical knowledge, analyze, and gain applicable experience. By the end of the course, the students should understand well the principles of each technology, what is required, and how to apply.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following main goal:
§ Assist in providing alternative water resources.
§ Assist decision makers in water problems solutions.
This is also in line with achieving of two objectives as followed:
§ Fostering the university’s mission and vision and working towards their realization.
§ Mastering knowledge of scientific methods for research and development tasks in the field of water technology and understand and know how to resolve multidisciplinary issues of desalination, treatment, and management.
§ Providing students with up-to-date foundations and advanced methods in various domains of Water Technology.
Prerequisite: WTEC 9301
Reference Books:
1- Desalination engineering: Planning & design by Nicolay Voutchkov, 2013
2- Desalination: Water from water by Jane Kucera, 2014
WTEC 9304 Water Quality Control
This course examines the main sources and nature of point and non-point sources of surface and ground water pollution as well as the statutory, regulatory and institutional framework controlling water quality management activities. It explains current approaches to water quality protection and enhancement, and reviews the role of treatment processes in water quality management. The courses will emphasis water quality control methodologies and management approach. The major emphasis will cover: Management of water quality, Watershed approaches and reservoir management, important physical, chemical and biological processes concerning water management, Water quality standards, indicators, legislation, monitoring and assessment, and other related issues.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following main goal: Improve water research environment. This is also in line with achieving of the following objectives:
§ Fostering the university’s mission and vision and working towards their realization.
§ Mastering knowledge of scientific methods for research and development tasks in the field of water technology and understand and know how to resolve multidisciplinary issues of desalination, treatment and management.
Prerequisite: WTEC 9302
Reference Books:
1- Water quality control handbook, 2nd edition (McGraw Hill), 2007
2- Standard Methods for the Examination of Water & Wastewater 22nd edition, 2012
WTEC 9305 Environmental Statistics
This course aims to provide a systematic advanced statistical treatment of the problems of environmental data. It develops the student ability to carry out and evaluate the results of statistical analysis. The principles and application of different statistical packages systems such as SPSS and R will be covered. Environmental sampling and modeling: sampling methods, capture-recapture methods, multiple regression, toxicology, risk analysis, quantile regression. Time series analysis: stationary processes, auto covariance and spectral analysis, line-ear time invariant altering, autoregressive moving average (ARMA) processes, time series modeling and forecasting. Monitoring, modeling and forecasting change: statistical monitoring methods for environmental system, change-point analysis, statistical methods for non-stationary.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following main goal: Improve water research environment. This is also in line with achieving of the following objectives:
§ Providing students with a deep understanding of the principles and terms/concepts of all water fields, e. g. widening their backgrounds with the necessary prerequisites.
§ Enabling students to analyze and identify requirements necessary to work accurately.
Prerequisite: Nill
Reference Books:
1- Environmental Statistics and Data Analysis 1st Edition by Wayne R. Ott, 2014
2- Statistical Applications for Environmental Analysis and Risk Assessment (Statistics in Practice) 1st Edition by Joseph Ofungwu 2014
WTEC 9306 Remote Sensing and GIS for Water Resources Management
This course introduces the participants to the fundamentals of geospatial technology (Remote sensing and GIS).This course is intended to introduce the learner to RS & GIS techniques in water resources management. Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR), EMR Spectrum and its Properties EMR wavelength regions and their Applications, Atmospheric windows, Interaction of EMR with Atmosphere and the Surface, Sensors and satellites, Resolutions: Spectral, Spatial, Temporal and Radiometric, Digital Image: display and its properties, Spectral signatures, Vegetation and Bare soil, Introduction to Photogrammetry. Remote Sensing Applications for the Water Sector: Digital elevation models and its applications, Map algebra: Local, Neighborhood, Zonal operations, Extraction of water info using band combination, Extraction of water info from topographical maps, Digital Image Classification: land use / land cover mapping. Application of Remote Sensing in water resources science and management.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following main goal: Improve water research environment. This is also in line with achieving of the following objectives:
§ Providing students with a deep understanding of the principles and terms/concepts of all water fields, e. g. widening their backgrounds with the necessary prerequisites.
§ Enabling students to analyze and identify requirements necessary to work accurately.
§ Enabling students to take into consideration contemporary issues and environmental impact of Water Technology.
§ Assist decision makers in water problems solutions.
Prerequisite: Nill
Reference Books:
1- Remote sensing in water resources management: The state of the art. International Water Management Institute, Bastiaanssen, Wim GM, 1998
2- Remote sensing in hydrology. Engman, Edwin T., and Robert J. Gurney. London: Chapman and Hall, 1991
WTEC 9307 Water Modelling
This course introduces the participants to the latest modelling methods (physical and numerical modeing) in the field of water applications. The course will equip the students with what it takes to simulate various phenomenas and practices related to water desalination, treatment, surface water, etc.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following main goal: improve water research environment. This is also in line with achieving of the following objectives:
§ Providing students with a deep understanding of the principles and terms/concepts of all water fields, e. g. widening their backgrounds with the necessary prerequisites.
§ Enabling students to analyze and identify requirements necessary to work accurately.
Prerequisite: WTEC 9304
Reference Books:
1- Predictive Models for Water Quality in Distribution Systems. Powell, J., et al. 2004
2- Modeling, Control and Optimization of Water Systems: Systems. Rauschenbach, Thomas, 2016
WTEC 9308 Solar Energy in Desalination Technology
Solar Energy in Desalination Technology explains how to obtain clean water from seawater using solar energy. Special methods and types used in solar desalination introduced, providing new thoughts, concepts, and feasible solutions in the desalination field, along with the thermal and economic efficiency relating to current technology. The course explains the principles of solar thermal energy usage to produce clean water from seawater and explains new kinds of solar desalination systems, including their technical level and working principle. The course provides fundamental knowledge on water treatment and solar collection and Solar Energy Utilization and Its Collection Devices. The course gives fundamental relationships of heat and mass transfer in solar seawater desalination systems. Absorption and adsorption solar desalination System, the benefit evaluation, and material selecting.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following two main goals:
§ Explains the principles of solar thermal energy usage to produce clean water from seawater
§ Provide fundamental knowledge on water treatment and solar collection.
Prerequisite: Nill
Reference Books:
1- Solar Energy Desalination Technology, Hongfei Zheng, 1st Edition, Elsevier, 2017
2- Concentrating Solar Power and Desalination Plants, P Palenzuela, DC Alarcón-Padilla, G Zaragoza, 2015
WTEC9309 Ground Water Hydrology
This course covers fundamentals of subsurface flow and transport, emphasizing the role of groundwater in the hydrologic cycle, the relation of groundwater flow to geologic structure, and the management of contaminated groundwater. The course will cover the following topics: Darcy equation, flow nets, mass conservation, the aquifer flow equation, heterogeneity and anisotropy, storage properties, regional circulation, unsaturated flow, recharge, stream-aquifer interaction, well hydraulics, flow through fractured rock, numerical models, groundwater quality, contaminant transport processes, dispersion, decay, and adsorption. It includes laboratory and computer demonstrations, and is a core requirement for Environmental and Geo-environmental.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following two main goals:
§ Improve water research environment.
§ Contribute positively and significantly to local community serving towards improving living conditions.
This is also in line with achieving of the following objectives:
§ Providing students with a deep understanding of the principles and terms/concepts of all water fields, e. g. widening their backgrounds with the necessary prerequisites.
§ Enabling students to analyze and identify requirements necessary to work accurately.
§ Enabling students to take into consideration contemporary issues and environmental impact of Water Technology.
Prerequisite: Complementary Course: Hydrogeology
Reference Books:
1- Groundwater hydrology 3rd edition, 2011
2- Groundwater hydrology: Engineering, planning, & management by M. Karamouz & A. Ahmadi, 2011
WTEC9310 Instrumentation and Control for Water and Wastewater Processes
Effective instrumentation and control systems are critical for the efficient operation of any water or wastewater treatment or pumping facility. Starting with the basic principles and components of instrumentation and control, this course will provide you with practical skills in the specific technologies, applications, and recent trends of I&C, SCADA and related systems and the need to integrate control systems with process requirements is emphasized. Geared specifically towards individuals in the industry, this course includes workshop problems to help understand and improve next instrumentation and control project. This course will also cover: key principles and industry terms, control hardware, HMI, and SCADA systems, pressure, flow, level, temperature sensors, integration of process and instrumentation needs, control strategies for pumping, aeration, chemical feed, and other processes, documentation and commissioning, and system costing.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following main goal: Improve water research environment.
This is also in line with achieving two objectives as followed:
§ Keeping awareness of scientific development in all areas of water technology.
§ Giving the students the opportunity to get experience from theoretical description and creating appropriate models to study water desalination and treatment technologies and aspects.
Prerequisite: WTEC 9302
Reference Books:
1- Control and Instrumentation for Wastewater Treatment Plants (Advances in Industrial Control) by Reza Katebi & Michael Johnson, 2014
WTEC9311 Renewable Energies for Desalination
The course is focused on the main aspects of desalination by renewable energies (RE) for autonomous operation as well as desalination sustainabiliy via (RE). The students will know the fundamentals of RE– powered desalination in additional to providing students with a good understanding of the : Basic concepts; Membrane processes; Distillation processes ; Solar thermal energy and MED; Solar thermal energy coupled to HD or MD; RO systems powered by PV solar energy; RO systems powered by wind energy; Other technologies; Not technical aspects and Practical case: preliminary design.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following main goal: Apply and use renewable energies in water desalination to reduce desalination costs and mitigate brine discharge negative impacts resulted from conventional technologies.
This is also in line with achieving two objectives as followed:
§ Mastering knowledge of scientific methods for research and development tasks in the field of water technology and understand and know how to resolve multidisciplinary issues of desalination, treatment, and management.
§ Keeping awareness of scientific development in all areas of water technology.
§ Developing of professional skills and appropriate evaluation methods at work
Prerequisite: Nill
Reference Books:
1- Solar Desalination for the 21st Century: A Review of Modern Technologies and Researches on Desalination Coupled to Renewable Energies (Nato Security through Science Series C), 2015
2- Renewable Energy Desalination: An Emerging Solution to Close the Water Gap in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA Development Report) by World Bank, 2012
WTEC9312 Corrosion Control in Desalination Industry
This course provides an overview for some technical issues associated with both desalination and water treatment technologies. It will cover the following topics: release of metals and potential health effects, materials and mechanisms of corrosion and corrosion control, factors influencing corrosion, monitoring and interpretation of results, corrosion control program developing, seawater desalination systems and plants corrosion types with major focus on reverse osmosis technology.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following main goal: Improve water research environment.
This is also in line with achieving two objectives as followed:
§ Keeping awareness of scientific development in all areas of water technology.
§ Giving the students the opportunity to get experience from theoretical description and creating appropriate models to study water desalination and treatment technologies and aspects.
Prerequisite: WTEC 9302
Reference Books:
1- Corrosion & corrosion control by Winston Revie, 2008
2- Principles of Corrosion Engineering and Corrosion Control by Zaki Ahmad, 2006
WTEC9313 Intake Design, Pretreatment, Post-treatment, and Environmental Issues
An in-depth understanding of intake structures and pre-treatment is crucial to successful design for a seawater reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination plant. This course will equip students with a detailed understanding of principal fouling mechanisms; Scaling, Particle fouling, Colloidal fouling, Biofouling and Organic fouling, providing the theoretical and practical background on the performance and operating conditions of intake and pre-treatment of water for desalination purposes. Students will explore membrane pre-treatment, involving micro- or ultra-filtration and comparison with conventional sand or mixed-media filtration and other systems such as dissolved air flotation and the environmental considerations which surround this.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following two main goals:
§ Provide significant and sustainable solutions for water scarcity in Gaza.
§ Assist in providing alternative water resources.
This is also in line with achieving the following objectives:
§ Mastering knowledge of scientific methods for research and development tasks in the field of water technology and understand and know how to resolve multidisciplinary issues of desalination, treatment, and management.
§ Providing students with up-to-date foundations and advanced methods in various domains of Water Technology.
§ Giving the students the opportunity to get experience from the study of water technology to be implemented in different fields.
§ Teaching the students the knowledge of modern concepts of Water Technology and applications.
Prerequisite: WTEC 9303
Reference Books:
1- Desalination engineering: Planning & design by Nicolay Voutchkov, 2013
2- Intakes & Outfalls for Seawater Reverse-Osmosis Desalination Facilities: Innovations and Environmental Impacts (Environmental Science & Engineering), 2015
WTEC9314 Brine Discharge Management
This course will provide students with a deep understanding of the underlying physical processes controlling brine discharge. It will also demonstrate the role of marine outfalls as part of brine management strategy and provide students with an awareness of the relevant legislation controlling brine discharge. This also includes ddeveloping methods for brine management to reduce aquifer contamination and over abstraction.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following two main goals:
§ Provide significant and sustainable solutions for water scarcity in Gaza.
§ Assist in providing alternative water resources.
This is also in line with achieving two objectives as followed:
§ Enabling students to take into consideration contemporary issues and environmental impact of Water Technology.
§ Giving the students the opportunity to get experience from theoretical description and creating appropriate models to study water desalination and treatment technologies and aspects.
§ Increasing the ability of using/dealing with water software and simulation methods and modeling.
Prerequisite: WTEC 9303
Reference Books:
1- Emerging Membrane Technology for Sustainable Water Treatment by Rajindar Singh & Nicholas Hankins, 2016
2- Seawater Desalination: Impacts of Brine and Chemical Discharge on the Marine Environment by Thomas Hopner Sabine Lattemann, 2003
WTEC9315 Water-borne Diseases
This course addresses emerging and re-emerging waterborne diseases including bacterial, parasitic, and viral in addition to the environmental and demographic changes that lead to the change in their epidemiology. Moreover, it includes investigating waterborne diseases, in both freshwater and marine ecosystems in terms of etiology, characteristics, impacts and how they relate to public and environmental health from local and global perspectives. The course will also shade some lights on microbial contamination sources, tracking systems, biology, sampling and testing water for their microbial contents. In addition, water quality standards and guidelines will also be discussed. Moreover, this course will discuss the pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, reservoirs, modes of transmission, epidemiology of those pathogens and diagnosis using basic and molecular techniques. Also, the transport, survival, and fate of pathogens in the environment, the concept of indicator organisms as surrogates for pathogens, the removal and inactivation of pathogens and indicators by water will be covered.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following two main goals:
§ Establishing a new strategy capable of solving current water problems facing our national and international communities.
§ Contribute positively and significantly to local community serving towards improving living conditions.
This is also in line with achieving two objectives as followed:
§ Enabling students to analyze and identify requirements necessary to work accurately.
§ Assisting students to gain experience in selecting appropriate ways and methods in water technology and help them to obtain essential skills.
Prerequisite: WTEC 9321
Reference Books:
1- Water Borne Disease: Epidemiology and Ecology by C. Goswami, 2010
2- Impact of Water-Borne Diseases on Social and Economic Status: Health problem, water-borne diseases, bacterial growth, damaged pipelines, population increase by Saima Qureshi, Naureen Aurangzeb, Ayub Khan, 2011
WTEC9316 Nanotechnology in Water Applications
This course will provide an overview of nanoscale phenomena in metals, semiconductors and magnetic materials. Spectro-scopy, etc. The course will also cover the following topics: Physical chemistry of solid surfaces (e.g. surface energy), chemical potential as function of surface curvature, electrostatic stabilization, steric stabilization. Furthermore, it includes the different types of nanostructures (e.g. zero-dimensional nanostructures), nanoparticles, one-dimensional nanostructures: nanowires and nanorodes, two-timensional nanostructures: thin films, nanostructures fabricated by physical and chemical techniques. Moreover, it involves characterization and properties of nanomaterials which include structural characterization, for example: X-ray diffraction (XRD), small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and gas adsorption as well as some important chemical spectroscopic methods eg UV/Vis, FTIR, NMR and XPS spectroscopy. Finally it covers some applications of nanomaterials, for example: molecular electronics and nanoelectronics, biological applications of nanoparticle, catalysis and environmental applications.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following main goal: Improve water research environment.
This is also in line with achieving two objectives as followed:
§ Keeping awareness of scientific development in all areas of water technology.
§ Giving the students the opportunity to get experience from theoretical description and creating appropriate models to study water desalination and treatment technologies and aspects.
Prerequisite: WTEC 9303
Reference Books:
1- Nanotechnology for Water Treatment and Purification (Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology) by Anming Hu, 2014
2- Nanofiltration: principles & applications by Anthony Fane, 2005
WTEC9317 Desalination Economics and Management
This course focuses on providing theoretical aspects of various desalination technologies costing and desalination plant management for both brackish and seawater. Throughout the course, the students will learn the economical principles and constrains of desalination industry.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following two main goals:
§ Provide significant and sustainable solutions for water scarcity in Gaza.
§ Contribute positively and significantly to local community serving towards improving living conditions.
This is also in line with achieving two objectives as followed:
§ Enabling students to analyze and identify requirements necessary to work accurately.
§ Assisting students to gain experience in selecting appropriate ways and methods in water technology and help them to obtain essential skills.
Prerequisite: Nill
Reference Books:
1- Desalination of Seawater and Brackish Water (Awwa Trend Series), 2006
2- Desalination and Advance Water Treatment Economics and Financing by Corrado Sommariva, 2010
WTEC9318 Water Desalination Seminar
This course will assist students towards building their research and knowledge capacities as well as familarize themselves with latest research publications and methods in the field of water desalination and prepare the students to wisely select their research topic among various desalination research topics..
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following main goal: Improve water research environment.
This is also in line with achieving two objectives as followed:
§ Giving the students the opportunity to get experience from theoretical description and creating appropriate models to study water desalination and treatment technologies and aspects.
§ Providing students with up-to-date foundations and advanced methods in various domains of Water Technology.
WTEC9319 Special Topics (1)
This course covers topics selected from fields of water deslaination. During this speical couse the learners will develop their knowledge in a selected advanced and uptodate topics which have not been covered or included in the study plan.
WTEC9320 Advance Wastewater Treatment and Design
This course is designed to provide an overview of engineering approaches on the design of wastewater treatment processes with advanced technologies. Theory and conceptual design of systems for the treatment of wastewater will be discussed. Students will be provided with a solid understanding of important principles and practices to protect the municipal water quality through good design principles of appropriate waste treatment processes. Topics include wastewater characterization and treatment, using both conventional and advanced treatment technologies. Physical, chemical, and biological process designs will be presented, including sedimentation, filtration, biological treatment, and sludge processing.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following two main goals:
§ Develop methods for wastewater treatment and water reuse to reduce aquifer contamination and over abstraction.
§ Establishing a new strategy capable of solving current water problems facing our national and international communities.
This is also in line with achieving two objectives as followed:
§ Mastering knowledge of scientific methods for research and development tasks in the field of water technology and understand and know how to resolve multidisciplinary issues of desalination, treatment, and management.
§ Providing students with up-to-date foundations and advanced methods in various domains of Water Technology.
§ Enabling students to take into consideration contemporary issues and environmental impact of Water Technology.
§ Giving the students the opportunity to get experience from theoretical description and creating appropriate models to study water desalination and treatment technologies and aspects.
Prerequisite: WTEC 9301
Reference Books:
1- Wastewater Treatment: Advanced Processes and Technologies. by D. G. Rao, R. Senthilkumar, J. Anthony Byrne, S. Feroz. 2012
2- Water & wastewater technology by Mark J. Hammer, 2012
WTEC9321Water Microbiology
This course provides a general introduction to the diverse roles of microorganisms in natural and artificial water environments. It covers topics including: cellular architecture, energetics, and growth; evolution and gene flow; population and community dynamics; water and soil microbiology; biogeochemical cycling; and microorganisms in bio deterioration and bioremediation.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following main goal: Improve water research environment. This is also in line with achieving of the following objectives:
§ Providing students with a deep understanding of the principles and terms/concepts of all water fields, e. g. widening their backgrounds with the necessary prerequisites.
§ Enabling students to analyze and identify requirements necessary to work accurately.
Prerequisite: Nill
Reference Books:
1- Microbiology of Drinking Water Production and Distribution by Gabriel Bitton, 2014
2- Handbook of Water and Wastewater Microbiology by Duncan Mara and Nigel J. Horan, 2003
WTEC9322 Water Treatment Seminar
This course will assist students towards building their research and knowledge capacities as well as familarize themselves with latest research publications and methods in the field of water treatment and reuse.
The expected achievements out of this course are contributing to achieve the following main goal: Improve water research environment.
This is also in line with achieving two objectives as followed:
§ Giving the students the opportunity to get experience from theoretical description and creating appropriate models to study water desalination and treatment technologies and aspects.
§ Providing students with up-to-date foundations and advanced methods in various domains of Water Technology.
WTEC 9323 Special Topics (2)
This course covers topics selected from fields of water and wastewater treatment. This course will cover advanced and up-to-date themes, which have not been covered or included in the study plan related to wastewater treatment and contamination removal. The course also may take over topics from several domains: geological, microbiological, chemical, design and engineering.