Indiana Class I and II Certification

What you will learn

Taught by Brad Musick. 10 modules. Examples come from the White River Resource Recovery Facility (WRRRF), a fictional training plant.

1. Rules, classification and reporting (60 min)How the operator certificate term and renewal work, how plant class follows design population equivalent, who may be in responsible charge, discharge monitoring reports compared with monthly operating reports, bypass reporting and records.
2. Operator math (120 min)The pounds formula (8.34), population equivalent, percent removal, detention time, loadings, surface overflow and weir overflow, SVI, F/M and sludge age, with geometry and careful step-by-step working.
3. Preliminary and primary treatment (45 min)Screens and comminutors, grit channels and velocity, and what a primary clarifier should remove.
4. Activated sludge process control (120 min)Air, food and organisms, MLSS and MLVSS, RAS and WAS, wasting to a target age, SVI, conventional and extended aeration, rising sludge compared with bulking, and what to do first.
5. Clarifiers (50 min)The feed well, blanket, weirs and sludge removal, loading checks, and why held sludge goes septic or rises.
6. Fixed film and lagoons (60 min)Trickling filters and rotating biological contactors, lagoon and pond types, and their daily swings.
7. Disinfection (60 min)The gas chlorinator train, demand, residual and breakpoint, contact time, hypochlorite math and chlorine safety.
8. Solids handling (70 min)Thickening, aerobic and anaerobic digestion with VA/ALK, belt and screw presses, and the sidestreams that return to the plant.
9. Laboratory (45 min)Grab and composite samples, BOD basics, TSS and volatile solids, pH, settleable solids compared with SVI, equipment and QA/QC.
10. Safety, maintenance and Class II topics (60 min)Hydrogen sulfide, methane, confined space, lockout and tagout, pump and cross-connection basics, and for Class II an introduction to industrial pretreatment and advanced treatment.