ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemistry Engineering
Areas: Chemical Engineering
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
The subject "Energy and Air Pollution" has as a general objective to involve the student in the processes associated with the problem of the transformation energy resources efficiently in relation to the prevention and control of air pollution in all stages, since the entry of resources until the dispersion of its emissions in the atmosphere.
Specific objectives (by blocks)
The objectives specific to each block of matter are introduced below, for which the contents of each one are first detailed and, in relation to them, the objectives to be achieved in their learning are summarized in a table.
I. Energy and atmospheric emissions
This first block defines energy systems, i.e. those systems that need and use the different types of energy and transform it. The efficiency of energy systems is subsequently addressed to minimise their atmospheric emissions and pollution prevention and control strategies. Finally, their emissions of air pollutants are evaluated and atmospheric emissions inventories are studied.
II. Atmospheric environment and pollution
This second block introduces the atmospheric environment in relation to its pollution and the main air pollutants; then address the various physical and chemical atmospheric processes that condition pollutant levels in the atmosphere. Including the technology of air quality models.
III. Modelling air pollution
The third block is practical in nature, and addresses specific cases of atmospheric emissions estimation and the application of air quality models to pollutant dispersion.
Block Objectives
I. Energy and energy systems. Energy efficiency. Atmospheric emissions.
- Energy resources and systems.
- Efficiency and control of energy systems.
- Atmospheric emissions inventories.
II.. Atmospheric environment and pollution.
- Pollutants in the atmosphere
- Physical and chemical atmospheric processes
- Air quality models.
III. Air pollution modelling seminars
- Calculation of industrial emissions.
- Calculation of urban atmospheric dispersion.
The contents that is developed in 3.0 ECTS are those referred to in summary form in the descriptor for the subject in the curriculum of the Master in Chemical Engineering and bioprocesses, and which are: "Energy Generation: atmospheric emissions. Impact. Atmospheric dispersion. Chemical transformation and deposition of air pollutants. Air quality models. Applications".
Taking into account these limitations, with the descriptor above the program will be structured in the following thematic blocks.
Block I. Energy and atmospheric emissions.
Item 1. Introduction. Energy and air pollution. Energy Resources. Systems for the use and transformation of the energy.
Item 2. Prevention of atmospheric pollution. Efficiency of energy systems. Prevention and control of air pollution in energy systems.
Item 3. Sources and emissions inventories. Sources. Estimation of atmospheric emissions. Emissions inventories. Applications.
Block II. Atmospheric Environment and Pollution
Item 4. Atmospheric Environment. Air pollutants. Classification. Chemistry in gas phase. Chemistry in aqueous phase. Aerosols. Effects.
Item 5. Meteorology and dispersion of atmospheric pollutants. Meteorological phenomena. Dispersion processes. Applications.
Item 6. Air quality models. Eulerian models. Lagrangian models. Gaussian models. Applications.
Block III. Seminar of modeling of atmospheric pollution
Item 7. Estimate of atmospheric emissions. Industrial emissions.
Item 8. Dispersion of atmospheric pollutants. Dispersion on an urban scale.
Specific objectives (for blocks)
Then placed the specific objectives of each block on the subject, for which in the first place are detailed the contents of each one and, in relation to the same, are summarized in a table the objectives to be achieved in their learning.
I. Energy and atmospheric emissions
In this first block defines the energy system, i.e. those systems that need and use the various types of energy and transformed. Is addressed later the efficiency of energy systems to minimize its atmospheric emissions and strategies for the prevention and control of pollution. Finally, assesses their emissions of atmospheric pollutants and studied the inventories of emissions.
II. Atmospheric Environment and Pollution
In this second block is entered the atmospheric environment in relation with their pollution and the main atmospheric pollutants; for then tackle the different atmospheric chemical and physical processes that determine the levels of pollutants in the atmosphere. Including the technology of the air quality models.
III. Modeling of atmospheric pollution
The third block is practical in nature, and in the same addresses specific cases of estimate of atmospheric emissions and implementation of air quality models to the dispersal of pollutants.
Objectives block
I. Energy and Energy Systems. Energy efficiency. Atmospheric emissions. - Resources and energy systems.
- Efficiency and control of energy systems.
- inventories of emissions.
II.. atmospheric environment and pollution. - the pollutants in the atmosphere
- physical and chemical processes atmospheric
- air quality models.
III. Seminars of modeling of atmospheric pollution
- Calculation of industrial emissions.
- Calculation of the urban atmospheric dispersion.
Basic
European Environment Agency “EMEP/EEA air pollutant emission inventory guidebook”. EEA Technical Report, 2016. https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/emep-eea-guidebook-2016. ISSN 1977-8449.
Jacobson, M.Z. "Atmospheric Pollution". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780511802287. SIGNATURE: 222 4.
Complementary
Baumbach, G. “Air Quality Control”. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1996. ISBN 10: 3540579923.
Boubel, R.W., Fox, D.L., Turner, D.B., Stern, A.C. "Fundamentals of Air Pollution". London: Academic Press, 1994. ISBN 0-12-118930-0.
Calvert, S. “Air Pollution”. 3a ed., vol. 4, Academic Press, New York, 1977.
Catalá Icardo, M., Aragón Revuelta, P. “Contaminantes del aire: Problemas resueltos”. Valencia: Editorial Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2008. ISBN 978-84-8363-224-6.
Finlayson-Pitts, B.J., Pitts Jr., J.N. “Atmospheric Chemistry”. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1986. ISBN 0-471-88227-5.
Jacobson, M.Z. “Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modelling”. Cambridge: University Press, 2005. ISBN 9780521548656. SIGNATURE: A220 4 A
Ministerio de Industria y Energía. "Manual de cálculo de chimeneas industriales". Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones Miner, 1992. ISBN 978-84-7474-635-8.
Pielke, R.A. “Mesoscale meteorological modeling”. Academic Press, New York, 1984. ISBN 9780123852373.
Seinfeld, J.H. "Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics of Air Pollution". New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1985. ISBN 0-471-82857-2.
Seinfeld, J.H., Pandis, S.N. “Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics”. 2nd edition, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2006. ISBN 978-0471720171. SIGNATURE: 220 5.
Sorensen, B. “Renewable Energy”. 4ª edición. Academic Press, 2011. ISBN 9780123750259.
Stull, R.B. "An introduction to boundary layer meteorology". The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. ISBN 978-94-009-3027-8.
US EPA. “Compilation of air pollutants emissions factors – Vol I: Stationary points and area sources”. AP-42, Research Triangle Park, California, 2016. https://www.epa.gov/air-emissions-factors-and-quantification/ap-42-comp…
Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, J., van Heerwaarden, Ch.C., van Stratum, B.J.H., van den Dries, K. “Atmospheric Boundary Layer” New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN 9781107090941. SINATURA: 220 7.
Zannetti, P. "Air Pollution Modeling". New York: Computational Mechanics Publications, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990. ISBN 978-1-4757-4465-1. SIGNATURE: A222 7.
Other Documentation
The teacher will provide presentations of the contents of the subject, in the language of the delivery of the same.
In this area the student will acquire or practice a series of generic competencies, desirable in any university degree and specific, own of the Chemistry and Process Engineering in general or specific Atmospheric Pollution in particular. Between the competences given in the memory of the title, this subject will develop the following:
General skills and basic:
CB7: that students know apply the knowledge acquired and its capacity to resolve problems in new or relatively unknown environments and in wider contexts (or multidisciplinary) related to their area of study.
CG7: applying knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and other natural sciences, obtained through study, experience and practice, with critical reasoning to establish economically viable solutions to technical problems.
CG9: Know establish mathematical models and develop them through the appropriate computing, as scientific and technological basis for the design of new products, processes, systems and services and for the optimization of other already developed.
Specific competencies:
CE3: Apply the knowledge acquired and its capacity to resolve problems in new or relatively unknown environments and in wider contexts (or multidisciplinary) related to the area of study of Chemical Engineering.
CE4: The ability to apply the scientific method and the principles of engineering and economics, to formulate and solve complex problems in processes, equipment, facilities and services, in which the subject you may experience changes in their composition, status or energy content, characteristic of the chemical industry and other related sectors among which are the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, materials, energy, food or environmental.
CE11: Address a real problem of Chemical Engineering under a scientific perspective, recognizing the importance of the search and management of existing information.
Transversal competencies:
CT4: Analytical capacity, critique and synthesis.
CT6: Ethical commitment in the framework of sustainable development.
In short, it is a question of applying their prior knowledge to all systems that use energy and to a new field for the analysis and quantitative assessment of air pollution and the design of innovative techniques for the reduction of their emissions. The couple that develop other more generic competencies, as the resolution of problems of interdisciplinary, team work and the management of mathematical models on computer.
5.1. Classroom Teaching
The onsite teaching will be developed in the form of three types of didactic sessions:
A) Theoretical teaching, in which the student will be introduced to the concepts and methods of the subject.
B) Practical teaching, in which will be proposed to the student different cases for its resolution in numeric class, which allow the application of the concepts and methods studied. For its follow-up will also be mentoring mandatory.
C) Experimental teaching (computer classroom), in which students will solve the different case studies related to the use of energy in relation to the analysis and evaluation of its air pollution, through mathematical models of the processes studied. The assistance to this experimental teaching, which is to be assessed on the basis of the results obtained in the same, is mandatory.
Consideration will be given to the realization of a technical visit related to the analysis and control of atmospheric pollution, depending on the means and conditions available.
5.2. Non-presential Teaching
For the theoretical and practical learning of the subject referred to various evaluated activities that will develop in the form under tutorial, as the resolution of problems similar to those addressed in the onsite teaching and study of a case type from among the studied in the subject.
It provides for the use of a Virtual Classroom for teaching support.
5.3. Development of Competencies
Competency developed
1=classes E/I/Technical Visit 2=Computer Classroom 3=Case Studies / resolution of problems 4=mandatory Tutorials 5=Individual Cases
General and basic
CB7 1 2 3 4 5
CG7 2
CG9 2
Specific
CE3 2 3 4
CE4 1 5
CE11 3 4
Transverse
CT4 1 2 3 4 5
CT6 2 3 4
6.1. System of qualifications
The evaluation of material is composed of a combination of:
Rating System Evaluation Mode Weight in the global note Minimum value over 10
Individual Written Exam (inc. technical visit contents) 40 % 4
Individual Computer classroom 40 % -
Individual Tutorials 10 % -
Attendance and active participation in lectures/seminars 5% -
Lecturer Individual Report 5 % -
To pass the subject, the student must obtain a minimum score of 4 out of 10 on the written exam. In another case, the overall rating of the student shall correspond to that of the said written exam.
The qualifications of the Lab-practices/tutorial and of the report of professor obtained in the course in which the student has completed the classroom teaching of subject, it will be retained in all evaluations of the course. Always remain necessary in each new opportunity the student performs the exam, and he/she will receive the corresponding qualification.
Repeated students will follow the same system of assessment that the new students.
For cases of fraudulent conduct of exercises or tests, the "Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións" will apply.
6.2. Competency assessment
1.Classes E/I 2-Laboratory 3-Case Studies 4-Tutoring 5-E1:Written Exam
Competition assessment
General and basic
CB7 1 2 3 4 5
CG7 2
CG9 2
Specific
CE3 2 3 4
CE4 1 5
CE11 3 4
Transverse
CT4 1 2 3 4 5
CT6 2 3 4
The area has a workload of 3.0 ECTS, corresponding 1 ECTS credit to 25 hours of total work, being the total number of some 75 hours, as follows :
Activity Hours
Onsite work hours student ECTS
Master Classes 10 10 0.80
Seminars 8 10 0.72
Computer Classroom 8 9 0.68
Laboratory practices -- -- --
Mentoring group 1 4 0.20
Subtotal 27 33 2.40
Individualized tutoring 1 4 0.20
Review and revision 2 8 0.40
Total 30 45 3
Where the classroom hours indicate the number of hours of classroom teaching on the subject, including the various activities and tutors will be done on the same. The hours of work of the student is the sum of the corresponding to all the activities to be developed by the student and that it must devote individually or in teams, without the presence of the teacher.
The student must apply its foundations of mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering to the energy systems, the atmospheric environment and to the process units related to air pollution which are studied in this subject. Also will be handled mathematical models that facilitate the application of techniques studied. It is important that there be taken the subject of Industrial Energy since this industry will be, among others, a system to study and ignored the fundamentals of energy equipment in the same.
The subject is taught in Spanish.
The subject will have a Virtual Classroom.
Jose Antonio Souto Gonzalez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816757
- ja.souto [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
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