Environmental engineering

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Status of the course

Course objectives

Acquiring the knowledge required for understanding chemical engineering problems related to unit operations that are applied to protect environment.

Course enrolment requirements and entry competences required for the course

Undergraduate courses: Unit Ooerations.

Learning outcomes expected at the level of the course (4 to 10 learning outcomes)

After passing the exam the student is expected to know:
- Basic mechanisms of mass and energy transfer
- Conservation of momentum, energy, mass
- Flow past immersed bodies.
- Separation methods.
- Equipment for sedimentation, flotation, dedusting
- Fundamental principles end equipment for adsorption
- Membrane processes

Course content broken down in detail by weekly class schedule (syllabus)

First week: Introduction and overview of the course content. Unit operations in environmental engineering.
Second week: Separation methods. Separator efficiency.
3rd week: Flow past immersed bodies.
4th week: Sedimentation
5th week: Sedimentation equipment.
6th week: Centrifugal sedimentation.
7th week: Centrifuges.
8th week: Hydrocyclones.
Examination I
9th week: Flotation.
10th week: Dedusting. Cyclones.
11th week: Scrubbers.
12th week: Adsorption.
13th week: Adsorption equipment..
14th week: Membrane processes.
15th week: Membrane processes.
Examination II
Exercises:
1. Granulometric analysis.
2. Sedimentation test.
3. Sedimentation – surface determination.
4. Centrifuges – particle size determination.

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Student responsibilities

Attendance at lectures in the amount of 80% of the hourly rate.
Attendance of the exercises in the amount of 100% of the hourly rate.