COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Microbial Analysis of Wastewater. It covers the fundamentals of environmental microbiology, importance of microbial analysis in wastewater and microbial ecology of wastewater; the sampling techniques for microbial analysis, biosafety and good laboratory practices (GLP) and common microbial tests; the culture-based detection techniques, indicator organisms in wastewater and advanced microscopy techniques; the molecular techniques in wastewater microbiology, enzyme-based and rapid tests and data recording and interpretation. 

 

Further, the course will also discuss the microbial role in primary and secondary treatment and monitoring activated sludge microbiology; the anaerobic digestion microbiology, biofilm and fixed film system analysis as well as assess disinfection efficiency and troubleshoot microbial imbalances; the pathogen detection and quantification, emerging microbial contaminants and risk assessment based on microbial data; the regulatory guidelines and microbial standards, microbial analysis in water reuse applications and biosensors and rapid detection innovations. 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the laboratory quality assurance and method validation and the interpretation of microbial results; preparing lab reports and summaries, interpret microbial data for stakeholders and communicate risk to non-technical teams; integrating with process control and automation through linking microbial monitoring to SCADA/HMI systems and triggering alarms from microbial surrogates.