Before choosing course
Environmental aspects of the process industry
Course offering missing
Course offering missing for current semester as well as for previous and coming semestersContent and learning outcomes
Course contents
The course should give knowledge and understanding for how metallurgical processes and products affects the environment as well as the legal aspects. Strategies for minimizing the effect on the environment.
Possibilities and limitations for lowering the waste to atmosphere and water.
Dealing with waste and rest products
Use of energy
Lifecycle analysis
Metals in the environment
Environmental management
Possibility to control through the law
Intended learning outcomes
The course aims at providing the students with: good knowledge about the environmental problems in the process industry knowledge about governmental controlling mechanisms.
Course Disposition
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Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
3C1305, Ecology and Environmental Technology, for B, 3 credits.
Recommended prerequisites
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Equipment
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Literature
Litterature will be handed out.
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Examination
- PRO1 - Project, 6,0 hp, betygsskala: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Other requirements for final grade
Project (PRO1; 6 cr)
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
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Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
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Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.
Further information
Course web
Further information about the course can be found on the Course web at the link below. Information on the Course web will later be moved to this site.
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Main field of study
Materials Science, Materials Science and Engineering
Education cycle
Second cycle
Add-on studies
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Contact
Docent Yang Weihong, weihong@mse.kth.se