The Hindu        07.12.2011

Workshop on wastewater treatment technologies

The three-day workshop, starting on Wednesday, will deal with practical approaches needed for effective treatment of wastewater. — File Photo: K. Gopinathan

A three-day workshop on wastewater treatment technologies will be held in the city from Wednesday.

The workshop, being conducted by the National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, and McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, in association with the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, will deal with the fundamental concepts and practical approaches needed for effective treatment of wastewater.

The organisers said the workshop had been planned to cover the latest technology available in treatment of wastewater in India and Canada, and special impetus would be given to the managerial and economic issues of management of wastewater.

Classical themes like characterising wastewater quantity and quality, physicochemical processes in wastewater treatment, concepts of microbiology, kinetics in bioreactor design, etc. will form the backbone of the workshop.

G.L. Shekar, Principal, NIE, said the workshop was tailored for process and design engineers seeking techno-economic knowledge, and would benefit consulting engineers and professionals in the field, engineers from government organisation, representatives from NGOs, postgraduate students and research scholars in the field of environmental engineering and water resources. Prof. Shekar said the workshop would be of special benefit to middle-level planners and managers.