Online Course on Analysis of Sanitation Flows
This course has been developed to enable the participants to distinguish between different sanitation flows through their characteristics.
For whom?
This course is designed for those with an interest in sanitation and public health such as practitioners, academicians, consultants, researchers, students and representatives from NGOs.
Course content
This course has been developed to enable the participants to distinguish between different sanitation flows through their characteristics. The following themes are covered: the different characteristics of sanitation flows, their potential pollution and health impacts, and now samples are analyzed in the laboratory. The laboratory analysis covers basic parameters which are included in legislation and will include chemical, biological and physical parameters.
Topics
- Introduction to waste
- Introduction to sanitation
- Comparison of sanitation flows
- What is faecal sludge?
- Why measure the characteristics of sanitation flows
- Laboratory Induction
- Measuring microbiology parameters
- Measuring solids parameters
- Measuring organics parameters
- Measuring nutrient parameters
- Writing of a simple laboratory report
Lecturers
- Claire Furlong, IHE Delft
- Francisco Rubio Rincón, IHE Delft
- Jack van de Vossenberg, IHE Delft
- Berend Lolkema, IHE Delft
Course Coordinator
Claire Furlong
Senior Lecturer in Sanitary Engineering
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