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 TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGIES IN R+D LABORATORIES is included in Module IV devoted to RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT in the Master of Chemical Engineering and Bioprocesses
To carry out a review of the basic tools and methodologies available in the Department of Chemical Engineering and in the Central Services of the USC, which will enable the student to acquire knowledge about the tools used in the different research lines of the Department of Chemical Engineering.
To study the applicability of some of these methodologies on the determination of the most important parameters for their further use in monitoring, modelling and control activities of the different equipment and processes used.
To put in touch the master students with the different PhD students from the department with the aim of knowing the day-to-day of their research studies.
The contents, to develop throughout the course, are directly related to those indicated in the descriptors of the subject: “Revision of the different basic tools available in R+D. Equipment and General Services which support the research in the USC. Instrumental and analytical techniques in the research laboratories in the Department of Chemical Engineering of the USC. Methodologies for the interpretation and application of the obtained results to the research. Waste management in the R+D laboratories”.
The programme of the subject comprises the following units.
Unit 1. Characterisation of environmental samples I (Solids and Biomass): Physical parameters: Settling velocity, volume index, density and particle size. Composition: COD, volatile suspended solids, proteins, polysaccharides, DNA, elemental analysis. Morphology and identification: electronic microscopy, FISH and flux cytometry.
Unit 2. Characterisation of environmental samples II (Liquid and gaseous phases): Spectrophotometry, gas chromatography, TOC, TKN, HPLC, FPLC, capillary electrophoresis, gel electrophoresis, NMR, gas-mass, electrodes, microsensors, mass spectrometry, spectroscopy.
Unit 3. Evaluation of biological activities and applications: Determination of activities: Introduction. Biogas production. Substrate consumption. Respirometry. Enzymatic activities. Tritrimetric methods. Microcalorimetry. Measurement of bioactivity of natural substances. Applications: Obtainment of kinetic parameters. Biodegradability and wastewater characterisation. Toxicity and inhibition. Control and monitoring.
Unit 4. Techniques based on the measurement of physical properties: Thermogravimetric analysis. Calorimetric techniques. Techniques of thermal analysis (DSC and DMA). Rheological techniques. Viscosimetric techniques.
Unit 5. Equipment and infrastructures supporting the research in the USC (RIAIDT): Magnetic resonance. X rays. Electronic and confocal microscopy. Mass spectrometry. IR-Raman spectroscopy. Elemental analysis. Other services. Institute of ceramic of Galicia.
Unit 6. Waste management of wastes in R+D laboratories: Liquid and solid waste management. Waste identification and classification. Waste storage and management. The case of the USC.
Unit 7 Case Studies
Basic bibliography
APHA-AWWA-WPCF. Standard Methods for examination of water and wastewater. 17th Ed. Washington. (1989).
Complementary bibliography
SEVIOUR, R.J and L.L. BLACKALL. The microbiology of activated sludge. Dordrecht, Holanda.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.ISBN 0412793806
SOTO M., R MENDEZ. y J.M. LEMA. Bases cinéticas y microbiológicas en el diseño de digestores anaerobios. Ingeniería Química,1993, XXIV (274), 191-201. ISSN 0210-2064
SOTO M.,R. MENDEZ e J.M. LEMA. Methanogenic and non-methanogenic activity tests. Theoretical basis and experimental set up. Water. Res,1993, 27, 1361-1376.ISSN 1879-2448
SPANJERS, H., et al. Respirometry in control of the activated sludge process: Principles”. Scientific and Technical Report Nº 7. London : IAWQ, 1998. ISBN 1900222043
http://www.usc.es/gl/investigacion/riaidt/
The subject is oriented to the achievement of the following skills included in the report of the Title.
Basic and general competences
CB7.- The students know how to apply their acquired knowledge and their solving problems capacity in new or slightly known environments in the frame of wider (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
CB10.- The students possess the learning abilities allowing them to continue studying in a way that will have to be to a large extent auto-directed or autonomous.
CG12. To direct and manage the organisation of the work and human resources applying criteria of industrial safety, quality management, working risks prevention, sustainability and environmental management.
CG13. To direct and perform the verification, the installations, processes and products control, as well as certifications, audits, verifications, assays and reports.
Cross competences
CT2. To adapt to changes, being able to apply new and advanced technologies together with other relevant processes, with initiative and entrepreneurship.
CT4. Capacity of analysis, critic and synthesis.
Specific competences
CE.6. To design products, processes, systems and services of the chemical industry, as well as the optimisation of another already developed, having as technological basis the diverse areas of the chemical engineering, understanding of processes and transport phenomena, separation operations and chemical, nuclear, electrochemical and biochemical reactions engineering.
CE.8. To direct and supervise all kind of installations, processes, systems and services from the different industrial areas related to the chemical engineering.
CE.10. To design, construct and implement methods, processes and installations for the integral management of supplies and solid, liquid and gaseous wastes, in the industries, with capacity of assessment of their impacts and risks.
CE.12. To possess the skills for the independent learning to maintain and improve the competences of the chemical engineering which allow for the continuous development of the profession.
In all cases, the Learning Management System (LMS) of the subject (Moodle) will be used as a repository of all the material delivered as well as for student-teacher communication.
The development of the subject is closely linked to the research activities in the laboratories of the research groups of the Department of Chemical Engineering. In the seminar sessions the students will visit the different laboratories. During these visits, the operation of the various teams will be explained, and demonstrations of some of them will be made. In the cases that are possible, the students will be able to make determinations of some relevant parameters on different samples.
Practical case: Students will prepare at least one practical case supervised by the teacher, which solves any doubts the student may have in carrying out the proposed study. This work will be carried out individually or in groups depending on the total number of them. These hours will be aimed at promoting interaction not only between the students themselves but also with the teacher. Students will make an oral presentation of their work in front of their classmates and the teacher.
Group tutoring: It will serve to solve some specific question that the students have related to the practical case.
Individualized tutorials: They will be held through the MS Teams platform at the student's request.
The competences, to acquire by the students during the diverse activities of the subject, are distributed as follows:
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Cross
Activity Basic and General Competences Specific
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Seminars CB7 CT4 CE6, CE8, CE10
Laboratories CB10, CG12, CG13 CE6, CE8, CE10
Tutorial sessions and works CT2 CE12
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The student's grade will be a weighted average of the activities carried out based on the performance obtained in each of the sections evaluated.
1. Participation in lectures and tutorials: 20%
2. Individual work prepared for each student 40%
3. Presentation and discussion of the work in individual open sessions 40%
The table presents the activities where the different skills are evaluated:
1.- Group tutorials and Laboratory (CT2, CB10, CG12, CG13, CE6, CE8, CE10, CE12)
2.- Performed works (CT2, CT4, CE12)
The consideration of “not presented” will be taken if no evaluating activity is attended (exam, group tutoring, laboratory seminars or teamwork). If you do not attend only one of them, the qualification at the first opportunity will be “non-pass”.
For the second opportunity in the same academic year, the grades obtained in the teamwork, group tutoring and laboratory sections will be kept.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for evaluating student academic performance and reviewing grades will apply.
The activities where the different competences will be evaluated are indicated in the table.
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Cross
Subject/Activity Basic and General Competences Specific
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Seminars CB7 CT4 CE6, CE8, CE10
Laboratories CB10, CG12, CG13 CE6, CE8, CE10
Tutorial sessions and tasks CT2 CE12
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Distribution of the formative activities in ECTS
Activity Face-to-face
Hours Personal work hours ECTS
Master classes -- -- --
Seminaries 6.0 9 0.6
Laboratory 20.0 20.0 1.6
Group tutorials 1 4 0.20
Subtotal 27 33 2.40
Individual tutorials 1 4 0.20
Exam and revision 2 8 0.40
Total 30 45 3.00
It is stated that the nature of the subject, associated with the activities in the research laboratories, makes it compulsory to attend all the aforementioned activities
Basic English knowledge is recommended to facilitate the consultation of books, scientific papers, and web pages.
Students can access to the subject program thought the web of the titulation:
http://www.usc.es./gl/titulacions
Admission of students to laboratories will require the knowledge of the Rules included in the Protocol of basic formation in respect to security for experimental spaces of ETSE, available in the web page:
http://www.usc.es/etse/taxonomy/term/ 10761
The subject will be given in Spanish language.
In order to access the laboratory, the student must be equipped with laboratory coat and safety glasses. The admission and permanence of the students enrolled in the practical laboratory requires that they know and comply with the standards included in the Protocol of basic training in security matters for experimental spaces of the Higher Technical School of Engineering, available in the security section of its Web.
With regards to security and working risks prevention, for each of the practical equipment the students will have available a basic manual of operation where the most important aspects are indicated.
The online platform Learning Management System (LMS) will be used as a tool to facilitate information/announcements on the teaching activity throughout the course, as well as supplementary materials for the study of the course. MS Teams will be also used whwn necesary.
Any additional information to know how the University of Santiago de Compostela works can be consulted directly on its website at the address: www.usc.es
Ramon Mendez Pampin
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816791
- ramon.mendez.pampin [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) Emeritus
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