CE50228: Environmental sciences, processes and engineering
[Page last updated: 04 August 2021]
Academic Year: | 2021/2 |
Owning Department/School: | Department of Chemical Engineering |
Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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Assessment Summary: | EX 100% |
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Description: | Aims: To * Convey an overview and a deeper understanding of the scientific foundations of environmental processes and environmental engineering. * Provide comprehensive knowledge about behaviour of contaminants and the processes for their avoidance and removal. Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit the student will be able to: * Understand the environment as a complex system and critically discuss the anthropogenic influence on it. * Characterize and classify pollutants and their effects. * Describe, explain and discuss environmental processes based on scientific data. * Describe, explain and discuss biological, chemical and physical processes to avoid or remove contaminants. Skills: * The ability to conceptualise complex environmental processes (T,F,A) * The ability to specify and critically evaluate environmental engineering processes (T,F,A) * The ability to understand and describe global biogeochemical processes and to differentiate human and natural influence (T,F,A) * The ability to develop solutions for avoiding and eliminating environmental problems (T,F,A) * The ability to classify pollutants, know their impact and fate in the environment (T,F,A). Content: * environmental science * sustainability and critical thinking * principles of ecology and human interactions with ecosystems * global biogeochemical cycles * environmental chemistry * chemistry of the major spheres: lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere, biosphere * classification of contaminants * fate, transport and behaviour of contaminants in the environment, including advanced level examples * water pollution, atmospheric pollution, ground level air pollution, soil pollution, subsurface pollution, noise pollution * principles of toxicology and risk assessment * biological, chemical and physical natural cleaning processes, including advanced level examples * introduction to environmental engineering, professional development and professions, environmental and engineering ethics * biology, chemistry and physics of environmental engineering processes, including advanced level examples. |
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CE50228 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Chemical Engineering
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