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Process simulators are used widely for analysis and design of municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities. The current generation of simulators integrates biological, chemical, and physical process models that enable steady-state and dynamic "whole plant" simulation of liquid and solids treatment process performance. This course reinforces the concepts presented in CEE 271A, CEE 271B, and CEE 273 and shows how these concepts are applied to analyze and design treatment systems for BOD removal, energy recovery, phosphorus removal and recovery, and nitrogen removal using BioWin TM 4, a commercially-available software package. A process-specific model for anaerobic treatment of domestic wastewater will also be developed for the new Staged Anaerobic Fluidized Membrane Bioreactor (SAF-MBR) based on the International Water Association (IWA) Anaerobic Digester Model No. 1 (ADM1) and implemented using the simulation software Aquasim.

This course provides an introduction to the chemistry of organic compounds focusing on chemical transformation and the application of this knowledge to understand and predict the fate of environmentally relevant organic chemicals. The course will cover fundamental rules that govern chemical transformations of organic compounds and will familiarize students with the major physical/chemical factors influencing the kinetics of organic reactions in nature. Prerequisites: CEE 270

Sources, fates, movement, and ecology of waterborne pathogens in the natural environment and disinfection systems; epidemiology and microbial risk assessment. No microbiology background required; undergraduates may enroll with consent of instructor.

Same as LAW 514. Interdisciplinary. The legal, science, and policy dimensions of managing California's coastal resources. Coastal land use and marine resource decision making. The physics, chemistry, and biology of the coastal zone, tools for exploring data from the coastal ocean, and the institutional framework that shapes public and private decision making. Field work: how experts from different disciplines work to resolve coastal policy questions. Primarily for graduate students; upper-level undergraduates may enroll with permission of instructor. Students will be expected to participate in at least three mandatory field trips.

Use of microbial bioreactors for degradation of contaminants and recovery of clean water, clean energy and/or green materials. Student teams design, operate, and analyze bioreactors and learn to write consulting style reports. Limited enrollment. Prerequisites: 271B

Students acquire basic knowledge to participate in a dialogue on water, sanitation and health issues in developing and developed countries. The focus is on enteric pathogenic pollutants. Material includes: Important pathogens, their modes of transmission and the diseases they cause, their fate and transport in the environment, and the means by which they are measured; statistical methods for processing and interpreting waterborne pollutant concentrations, and interpreting data from epidemiology studies; microbial source tracking; epidemiology and quantitative microbial risk assessment; reduction of pathogens in water and sludge; and non-experimental water, sanitation, and hygiene research. Several laboratory sessions will allow students to measure indicator bacteria and viruses using culture-based techniques and expose students to molecular methods for measuring health-relevant targets in water.

The American economy is highly inefficient: between 14-39% of the energy inputs into the US economy are ultimately used to create goods and services, while the remaining energy is lost in energy conversion and other inefficiencies. While this inefficiency results in a heavy social, environmental, and economic burden on both individuals and society as a whole, it also presents an tremendous opportunity to re-imagine how we use and manage our energy consumption. Recent technological advances, including the rise of information technology, sensors, controls, are dramatically re-shaping how energy is utilized, controlled, stored and integrated with traditional supply side resources. These emerging technologies and energy management techniques provide some of the greatest opportunities to improve the efficiency of our economy and address climate change.This course begins with an overview of demand side management (the application of efficiency, demand reduction, distributed generation, storage, and other resource to shape energy demand) practice to date and a detailed look at how energy is used throughout each sector of the economy. Based on this starting point, the course explores emerging technologies and optimization strategies that enable greater insight and control of energy use both at the device and aggregate level, including integration with renewables, storage, and electric vehicles. It then quantifies and monetizes these optimization strategies into revenue streams to both utility and end-user, and culminates in a discussion of how the intersection of these new technologies, optimization strategies, and revenue streams can help de-carbonize the American economy and shape energy use and the utility of the future. Prerequisites: This course is intended for students who wish to gain an understanding of how energy efficiency and demand management occurs in practice. While there are no formal prerequisites, it is expected that students will have familiarity with energy resources and building energy end uses, such as topics covered in CEE 176A/276A, CEE 173A/207A, CEE 156/256, and CEE226E.

Chemicals in the environment that pose toxicity risk. Introduction to environmental toxicology principles for identifying and characterizing toxicants based on sources, properties, pathways, and toxic action. Past and present environmental toxicant issues.

Energy resources and policies in use and under development in China. 12-day field trip to China during Spring Break. One unit for seminar and readings; one unit for field trip. Tuesday section is required for all students, Thursday section is also required for students attending the field trip. Prerequisite: consent of instructor for field trip.