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CE30145: Environmental management

[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: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
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 develop an appreciation of the complexity of environmental interactions and the ways in which human activities can impinge on the ecosystem as a whole.
* To explore the nature of pollutants and their major environmental effects.
* To introduce the technologies used to control the levels of pollutants in air and water.

Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this unit students should be able to:
* Appreciate and show evidence of the influence of human activities, in particular those brought by chemical industries, on the earth's ecosystems and on the viability of human populations.
* Summarise and explain the ethical dimension of applying principles of sustainability to chemical engineering technologies.
* Discuss and recommend appropriate solutions to energy production and pollution control (water & air).
* Apply current tools and methodologies relevant to environmental management (e.g., LCA, energy pinch, green chemistry, waste management etc.).

Skills:
Problem solving [T,F,A]
Data analysis [T,F,A].

Content:

* Introduction to the concepts of an integrated environment - the Gaia hypothesis.
* Life cycle analysis.
* Energy conversion and the environment.
* Pinch analysis.
* Climate change.
* Ozone depletion.
* The nature, effects and control of water and air pollution.

Programme availability:

CE30145 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Department of Chemical Engineering
  • UECE-AKB05 : BEng(Hons) Chemical Engineering with Year long work placement (Year 4)

Notes:

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