Upon successful completion of the course, students will:
- Be able to design de-pollution and wastewater treatment plants from urban and industrial / craft sources.
- Have the understanding of the basic chemical transfer processes in the environment
- Be familiar with the principles of industrial ecology
- Have the understanding of the principles of life cycle analysis
- Have the understanding of the effects of chemicals on humans and the environment
Course Content (Syllabus)
1. Introduction to environmental engineering.
2. Emissions and fate of chemical compounds in the environment (types of emissions – availability and production of emission data – transport and transformation models / general mass balance models – transformation of toxic compounds in the environment – bioaccumulation – abiotic transformation processes – biodegradation – biotransformation).
3. Water quality engineering (the nature of water quality problems – physical processes – chemical and physicochemical processes – biological processes).
4. Air quality engineering (the nature of air quality problems – atmospheric pollutant emissions and control – processing methods – air quality models).
5. Solid waste management (the nature of the solid waste disposal problem – minimization of hazardous waste – hazardous waste management processes – hazardous waste disposal).
6. Life cycle analysis (introduction to life cycle analysis – life cycle analysis methodology – framework and objective setting for the analysis – life cycle inventory – life cycle impact assessment – applications of life cycle analysis: usefulness, weaknesses and constraints, examples).
7. Setting up of industrial ecosystems – environmental policies (mass and energy flow integration in industrial complexes – fundamentals of environmental policy making – industrial ecology examples).
8. Chemicals in the environment and public health (mechanisms of human exposure to environmental chemicals – optimization of new chemical synthesis through life cycle analysis and exposure/toxicity assessment).
Environmental engineering, transport to the environment, air engineering, waste management, life cycle analysis, industrial ecology
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
ΤΟΞΙΚΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ Α ΩΣ ΤΟ Ω, J. HARTE, C. HOLDREN, R. SCHNEIDER, C. SHIRLEY,ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΑΚΕΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΕΜΠ