The environmental threats and their effects on man and ecosystems - expanded studies as compared to the basic course with focus on the climate change and toxic substances (metals and persistent organic pollutants).
Strategies for a better environment: Cleaner production strategies (process changes, raw materials changes etc.), process external solutions, product changes and other. Advantages and disadvantages using different strategies.
Air pollution control and gas cleaning technology. Process internal solutions and external solutions in order to minimize air pollutions (both gaseous compounds and particles). Two main applications will be discussed – emissions of VOC connected to handling of organic solvents and emissions of flue gases from energy production. Advantages and disadvantages with different methods.
Municipal and industrial waste water treatment. Process internal solutions and external solutions in order to minimize water pollutions. A number of common applications will be discussed. Advantages and disadvantages with different methods.
Industrial waste treatment. Process internal solutions to minimize waste production. Waste treatment methods especially handling of hazardous waste.
After the course the student should be able to:
- In detail describe and explain the climate change problem and also the global and national environmental threats on the ecosystems this climate change can give.
- Understand the problems according to modelling and predicting future changes in very complex systems.
- In detail describe and explain ecological impacts caused by toxic substances (metals and persistent organic pollutants).
- Propose and motivate strategies and actions for different environmental problems, based on a system analysis perspective.
- Describe and explain the function of different unit operations that can be used as kidney or recovery function in an industrial production process in order to minimize pollutions to air or water.
- State and describe other process internal solutions to minimize air pollution emissions (through flue gases and evaporation of VOC) and emissions through waste water discharges.
- Describe and explain the function of different process external methods that can be used in order to minimize pollutions to air or water.
- Discuss advantages and disadvantages for different environmental technical solutions.
- Describe different strategies and methods to minimize the waste production from industrial production processes.
- Describe and explain different treatment methods for industrial wastes (especially hazardous wastes).
- Propose and motivate the choice of different environmental technical solutions in order to solve or minimize pollutions to air or water from industrial production processes.
- Propose and motivate suitable methods to handle waste flows from industrial production processes.
