CE50217: Resource conservation: waste minimisation, recovery and valorisation
[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: * Characterize, classify and quantify mass and energy fluxes in industrial, urban and environmental processes to recognise process inefficiencies and opportunities for resource recovery and valorisation. Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit the student will be able to: * Develop and evaluate strategies to minimise municipal waste and waste in process industries (including reactors, separation and utility systems) to prevent environmental pollution and for resource conservation/ waste minimisation * Quantify and assess the material and energy resource efficiency of urban process fluxes and industrial processes and their impact in terms of their emissions (energy, waste, pollution) * Identify potential for resources recovery and valorisation in process streams * Define processes and process boundaries from microscale (single individual / single industrial) to macroscale (global), including the emissions these processes are causing. Skills: * The ability to integrate prior knowledge and to apply this to a range of scenarios, to critically analyse, evaluate, interpret and report on information from a range of sources and to solve complex / novel problems systematically and creatively (F,A) * The ability to effectively communicate efficiency opportunities to key stakeholders (F,A) * The ability to select and design technology, processes and systems based on sound evaluation of criteria (T,F,A) * The ability to work with, and critically analyse, information that may be uncertain or incomplete and to quantify the effect of this on problem solving, design and decision (T,F,A) * The ability to quantify the material and energy resource efficiency of processes and their impact in terms of emissions and to the environment (T,F,A) * The ability to characterise waste material according ot leval definitions and legislative frameworks Content: * Legal definition of waste, waste legislatie framework and case law approach to the interpretation of legislation * Definition and fate analysis of waste * Advanced mass and energy balances * Waste and environmental pollution minimisation concepts and strategies * Identification and calculation of municipal waste and waste in reactors, separation and utility systems * Introduction to waste separation and valorisation technologies * Identifying process limiting factors and design methodologies to minimise waste * Opportunities and challenges with industrial eco-cities. |
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CE50217 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Chemical Engineering
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