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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)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: EX 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Examination (EX 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
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.

Programme availability:

CE50228 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Department of Chemical Engineering

Notes:

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