Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4314579 Biological and Environmental Engineering | OB | 1 | 2 |
Students must have a solid foundation of the following subjects:
- Energy and material balances
- Important processes of organic and inorganic chemistry
- Knowledge of the physicochemical and toxicological properties of chemical substances.
- Knowledge of thermodynamics.
The main objective of the module is that students combine knowledge and tools to evaluate processes and products to optimize resources (materials and energy) and also to minimize their environmental impacts. The methods, tools and strategies to quantify the environmental impacts in the life cycle are studied. The application of thermodynamic principles is included as a tool to quantify the use of resources in chemical processes, as well as the efficiency in the transformation of raw materials to products. The concepts are explained with examples and case studies to illustrate the applicability of these evaluation tools.
Section I. Foundations of Industrial Ecology applied to production processes
1. Principles of Cleaner Production
2. Material, energy and substance flow analysis. The STAN software.
Section II. Life Cycle Assessment
3. Life Cycle Inventory
4. Life Cycle Impact Assessment
5. Interpretation of results
6. Using the Open LCA software
Bloc III. Anàlisi Integrada de la sostenibilitat
7. Environmental Risk Assessment. The EPISUITE Software.
8. System Perspective in Environmental Assessment
This is a hands-on training course. It uses the analysis of a production system as case study for group and individual work. We learn different methods for sustainability assessment and the software needed to develop it.
We combine:
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Theory lecture | 26 | 1.04 | 9, 7, 8 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Supervised work in the classroom | 12 | 0.48 | 3, 11, 4, 12 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Individual work | 15 | 0.6 | 9, 7, 8, 5, 3, 11, 4, 12 |
Team work | 89 | 3.56 | 1, 2, 10, 7, 6, 5, 11, 4, 12 |
This course follows a continuous evaluation and the grades are distributed as follows:
Group project presentation 25% |
Group project report 35% |
Deliverables
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Debates | |
Prof Grading |
Peer grading |
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12% |
13% |
25% Prof 10% Peers |
30% |
10% |
Group work. The case study will be selected from a list of cases related to the circular economy and polimer production. Some of these cases will be developed jointly with course 43327 Disseny Integrat de Processos integrating the contents of both courses and distributing the workload.
Submission deadlines will be presented during th first day of the course.
Retakes. If the course is failed there will be the possibilty of presenting an individual work with an in depth critical analysis of a part of the course contents. The maximum grade granted in this case will be a 5.00.
Grade Reviews. For each evaluation activity, a place, date and time of review will be indicated in which the student can review the activity with the teaching staff. In this context, claims may be made regarding the grade of the activity, which will be evaluated by the faculty responsible for the subject. If the student does not appear in this review, this activity will not bereviewed later.
Honor plates (MH). Granting an honors qualification is the decision of the teaching staff responsible for the subject. The regulations of the UAB indicate that MH may only be granted to students who have obtained a final grade of 9.00 or higher. Up to 5% of MH of the total number of students enrolled can be granted a MH.
A student will be considered non-evaluable (NA) if he has not submitted the project (oral or written) and has not done any of the theoretical and practical tests.
Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, the irregularities committed by the student that may lead to a variation in the qualification of an evaluation act will be graded a zero. Therefore, copying, plagiarism, deception, copying, etc. in any of the evaluation activities it will imply suspending it with a zero.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Debates | 10% | 5 | 0.2 | 2, 10, 9, 7, 5, 3, 11 |
Deliverables | 30% | 1 | 0.04 | 9, 7, 11, 4 |
Group Project Presentation | 25% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 10, 6, 3, 12 |
Group Project Report | 35% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 10, 9, 7, 8, 6, 5, 3, 11, 4, 12 |
Textbooks
Articles
Databases
Ecoinvent https://www.ecoinvent.org/
GaBi http://www.gabi-software.com/spain/index/
Software