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2020/2021

Clean Technologies and Industrial Waste

Code: 102817 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2501915 Environmental Sciences OT 4 0
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Gemma Canals Flix
Email:
Gemma.Canals@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
catalan (cat)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
Yes
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
No

Other comments on languages

If there are students who do not understand Catalan, there will be classes in Spanish

Prerequisites

Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering

Objectives and Contextualisation

• Knowing and applying the concepts of clean technologies and circular economy for the improvement of products and industrial processes
• Identify the available industrial effluent treatments and acquire basic notions for their design
• Select alternatives for the treatment of industrial effluents
• Describe the alternatives for the treatment of contaminants in gaseous effluents
• Identify remediation tools for contaminated soils and water

Competences

  • Adequately convey information verbally, written and graphic, including the use of new communication and information technologies.
  • Analyze and use information critically.
  • Demonstrate adequate knowledge and use the most relevant environmental tools and concepts of biology, geology, chemistry, physics and chemical engineering.
  • Demonstrate initiative and adapt to new situations and problems.
  • Develop analysis and synthesis strategies regarding the environmental implications of industrial processes and urban management
  • Information from texts written in foreign languages.
  • Learn and apply in practice the knowledge acquired and to solve problems.
  • Quickly apply the knowledge and skills in the various fields involved in environmental issues, providing innovative proposals.
  • Teaming developing personal values regarding social skills and teamwork.
  • Work autonomously

Learning Outcomes

  1. Adequately convey information verbally, written and graphic, including the use of new communication and information technologies.
  2. Analyze and use information critically.
  3. Analyze, evaluate, design and operate systems or processes, equipment and facilities associated with environmental engineering in accordance with certain requirements, standards and specifications under the principles of sustainable development.
  4. Apply relevant knowledge of basic sciences to enable compression, the description and the solution of typical problems of environmental engineering.
  5. Apply the basic principles on which is based environmental engineering and, more specifically, mass and energy balances.
  6. Apply the scientific method to systems in which chemical, physical or biological both macroscopic and microscopic scale transformations occur.
  7. Demonstrate initiative and adapt to new situations and problems.
  8. Design and implement waste management plans and waste water.
  9. Identify the processes most appropriate to apply chemical engineering to environmental surroundings and to value them properly and originally.
  10. Information from texts written in foreign languages.
  11. Learn and apply in practice the knowledge acquired and to solve problems.
  12. Objectively compare and select different technical alternatives of an industrial process with parameters of environmental sustainability.
  13. Teaming developing personal values regarding social skills and teamwork.
  14. Work autonomously

Content

1. Prevention of pollution: circular economy and clean technologies.

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Economy Circular and design Cradle to Cradle

1.3. Economic aspects

1.4. Methodology

1.5. Case studies

 

2. Treatment of industrial effluents

2.0. Characterization / fractionation of effluents

2.1. Anaerobic digestion

2.2. Advanced oxidation processes

2.3. Membrane Reactors (MBR)

2.4. Discontinuous sequential reactors (SBR)

 

3. Treatment of contaminants in gaseous effluents

3.0. Introduction to the treatment of gases

3.1. Elimination of particles

3.2. Physicochemical treatments

3.3. Biological treatments

 

4. Bioremediation

4.1. In-situ and ex-situ treatments

4.2. Physico-chemical treatments

4.3. Biological treatments

Methodology

Theoretical classes: Master classes on the topics of the syllabus.
Problem classes: Resolution of case studies corresponding to the subject. Discuss with the students about the solution strategies and their execution.
Seminars: Meetings of small groups of students with the teacher to clarify doubts, one hour per subject.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Problem classes: Resolution of case studies corresponding to the subject 13 0.52 3, 4, 6, 5, 11, 9, 14
Seminars: Meetings with small groups for study of specific topics 5 0.2 2, 4, 5, 11
Theoretical classes: Master classes on the topics of the syllabus 30 1.2 2, 3, 4, 6, 5, 12, 9, 10
Type: Autonomous      
Collaborative learning 32 1.28 2, 11, 12, 9, 10, 1, 13
Self-contained learning of the student 55 2.2 2, 3, 4, 6, 5, 11, 12, 7, 9, 10, 14

Assessment

The contents of this subject will be evaluated through different works and written tests to be carried out during the course:

- Two written tests with a theoretical and practical part (50%)
- Case resolution works (50%)


A final minimum mark of 5.0 is required to pass, but to make the average, the mark of each written test must be higher than 3.5.
Not participating in any of the activities will be valued at zero.
If none of the two written tests are carried out, the final grade will be "Not evaluable".

To ask for a reevaluation the student must have been received a mark in activities that represent at least 2/3 of the global mark during the course.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Case Studies 50% 11 0.44 2, 3, 4, 6, 5, 11, 12, 7, 8, 9, 10, 1, 13
Two written tests with a theoretical and practical part 50% 4 0.16 2, 3, 4, 6, 5, 11, 12, 7, 9, 1, 14

Bibliography

Ellen McArthur Foundation, https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/publications

Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute (C2CPII), http://www.c2ccertified.org/

Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Product Standard,http://www.c2ccertified.org/resources/detail/cradle_to_cradle_certified_product_standard

Centre d'Activitat Regional pel Consum i la Producció Sostenible (SCP/RAC).http://www.cprac.org/ca/mediateca

United Nations Environment Programme

Metcalf & Eddy Inc. Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse. 4th Edition. Ed. Mc. Graw-Hill Inc., N.Y. (2003).

C. Kennes, M.C. Veiga. Bioreactors for Waste Gas Treatment. Kluwer Academic Publishers. (2001).

Simon Parsons. Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment. IWA Publishing. (2004).

Nazik Artan, Derin Orhon. Mechanism and Design of Sequencing BatchReactors for Nutrient Removal. IWA Publishing. (2005