IHE Delft 💧 Alumni Online Seminar: Sewage Water Treatment for Low and Middle Income Countries Part I
Channel: IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Date: 2021-08-03

Seminar by Prof. Marcos von Sperling

Description:
The presentation gave an overview of simple sewage treatment processes that can be applied in warm-climate regions and also in low-and-middle-income countries. The processes covered are stabilization ponds, constructed wetlands, overland flow, UASB reactors and post-treatment of anaerobic effluents. A comparison is made between their typical performances and characteristics, including their capacity to remove the major macro-pollutants of interest in domestic wastewater: organic matter, nitrogen, phosphorus and pathogens.

About the Speaker: 
Marcos von Sperling is a civil engineer, working in the field of wastewater treatment for more than 40 years. He is a full professor at the Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is very proud of being an IHE Delft alumnus, following the course he took in 1980-1981. From 2013 he came back to IHE Delft as a guest lecturer, teaching natural wastewater treatment processes. His PhD is in Environmental Engineering from Imperial College London (1990). He is editor of the International Water Association (IWA) Journal on Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, and a former chair of the IWA Specialist Group on Wastewater Pond Technology. He is the author of seven English textbooks on wastewater treatment (open access by IWA Publishing), which were translated into Portuguese and Spanish. He has been nominated an IWA Fellow and an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES), and is the recipient of the IWA Global Water Award 2021.