Course details

  • Study time: 1-2h

  • Target audience: Bachelor/Master students/Industry/academia representatives in the field of (Bio)chemical engineering, chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Overall welcome by Siegfried Vlaeminck

    • Meet the teachers

    • Learning objectives

    • In which module do you expect to learn about the following technologies?

    • Getting to know each other

    • Become familiar with the learning platform

    • How to obtain your course certificate
  • 2

    An introduction to wastewater

    • What do we use water for?

    • Why do you think water re-use is important?

    • Introduction to resource recovery from wastewater

    • Exercise: what is the fresh water used for?

    • Exercise: How much water do we use?

    • Test your knowledge

    • Discussion exercise
  • 3

    History of water

    • Why do you think water treatment is necessary?

    • The history of water and wastewater

    • Name the reasons for the invention of water treatment

    • Answers of your peers

    • Deepen your knowledge on common waterborne diseases

    • Want to know more?

    • Exercise: 5 phases of the evolution of water and wastewater services

    • Test your knowledge
  • 4

    Sustainability

    • Formulate 3 keywords you associate with sustainability

    • What is sustainability?

    • Exercise: weak versus strong sustainability

    • Deepen your knowledge - Weak versus strong sustainability

    • Test your knowledge
  • 5

    Conclusion

    • What did you learn?

    • Help us to improve this course

    • Thanks to our sponsors

Instructor(s)

Principal research fellow

Marc Spiller

VITO WaterClimateHub University of Antwerp - Department of Bioscience Engineering

Postdoctoral researcher

Lotte Van Peteghem

Ghent University Department of Molecular Biotechnology

Professor

Siegfried Vlaeminck

Professor Microbial Cleantech and Environmental Systems Analyses for Water, Nutrients, Food and CO2 University of Antwerp - Department of Bioscience Engineering