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1. General information
Course:
FOUNDATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Code:
37318
Type:
CORE COURSE
ECTS credits:
6
Degree:
340 - UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Academic year:
2019-20
Center:
501 - FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Group(s):
40 
Year:
3
Duration:
First semester
Main language:
Spanish
Second language:
Use of additional languages:
English Friendly:
Y
Web site:
Bilingual:
N
Lecturer: ISAAC ASENCIO CEGARRA - Group(s): 40 
Building/Office
Department
Phone number
Email
Office hours
ICAM/ 0.29
INGENIERÍA QUÍMICA
926051573
isaac.asencio@uclm.es
Martes, miércoles y jueves de 12:00 a 14:00, previa cita por correo electrónico.

Lecturer: RAFAEL CAMARILLO BLAS - Group(s): 40 
Building/Office
Department
Phone number
Email
Office hours
Sabatini/0.10
INGENIERÍA QUÍMICA
5414
rafael.camarillo@uclm.es
Lunes y Miércoles de 16 a 19 horas (previa cita por e-mail)

Lecturer: CARLOS JIMENEZ IZQUIERDO - Group(s): 40 
Building/Office
Department
Phone number
Email
Office hours
Sabatini/0.10
INGENIERÍA QUÍMICA
926051434
carlos.jimenez@uclm.es
Martes y Miércoles de 16 a 19 horas (previa cita por e-mail)

2. Pre-Requisites
Not established
3. Justification in the curriculum, relation to other subjects and to the profession

Environmental Engineering is a discipline of importance for a Graduated in Environmental Sciences. For this reason, the syllabus of the Grade in Environmental Sciences in UCLM includes the subject Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering. The justification is base on providing the scientific-technical basis of engineering needed to tackle environmental pollution treatment and management technologies (water, air and soil).

The study of fundamentals of Environmental Engineering requires basic skills of Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Microbiology. For this, the students should have passed the 1st course subjects treating these skills: Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Environmental Chemical Analysis and Environmental Microbiology.

The subjects Management and Treatment of Industrial Effluents, Management and Treatment of Urban and Readily Assimilated Waste, Environmental Pollution, Processes and Technologies for Water Treatment, Energy and Environment (in 3rd and 4th courses), to a greater o lesser extend, should support on fundamentals of environmental engineering, because they show specific aspects of technologies for controlling environmental pollution (water, air and soil) that could not have been adequately addressed without the basic skills provided by the subject “Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering”.


4. Degree competences achieved in this course
Course competences
Code Description
CB03 Be able to gather and process relevant information (usually within their subject area) to give opinions, including reflections on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.
CB04 Transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions for both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
CB06 Students have developed the ability to work as a team and lead, direct, plan and supervise multidisciplinary teams
E01 Ability to understand and apply basic knowledge.
E02 Capacity for multidisciplinary consideration of an environmental problem
E03 Awareness of the temporal and spatial dimensions of environmental processes
E04 Ability to integrate experimental evidence found in field and/or laboratory studies with theoretical knowledge.
E05 Capacity for qualitative data interpretation
E06 Capacity for quantitative data interpretation
E24 Water resources management, supply and treatment capacity
E27 Know clean technologies and renewable energies.
G02 Knowledge of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
G03 Good oral and written communication
5. Objectives or Learning Outcomes
Course learning outcomes
Description
To know the legislation and quality criteria related to environmental technologies.
Train the student to work as a team.
To enable the student to work and learn autonomously, as well as for personal initiative.
To enable the student to listen and defend arguments orally and in writing.
To enable the student to search for information, its analysis, interpretation, synthesis and transmission.
To train the student to understand the unitary operations used in environmental engineering.
To enable the student to solve problems and interpret the results in a critical way.
To enable the student to relate theoretical concepts to experimental evidence.
Additional outcomes
Description
The learning outcomes of the subject are:
1. To provide a general vision of problems that can be solved from environmental engineering.
2. To provide the basic knowledge on engineering for solving environmental problems.
3. To provide a general vision of processes employed in environmental engineering, such as sustainable exploitation of energy and wastes treatment (wastewaters, industrial and urban wastes) and contaminated soils.
SPECIFIC LEARNING OUTCOMES:
To know the basic strategies to control environmental problems.
To know the terms employed in the characterization of operations and processes.
To know the variables employed in the description of processes.
To have skills in changing units.
To establish and solve mass balances in different systems (stationary, dynamic, with chemical reaction).
To establish and solve energy balances in different systems (stationary, with chemical reaction).
To make the difference between molecular and turbulent transport and to know the variables affecting the transport velocities for both cases.
To know the main variables having influence on the fluid circulation inside tubes.
To know the variables having influence on heat transfer by conduction and convention.
To calculate the necessary insulation to minimize the loss by conduction in stationary systems.
To know the main principles and variables having influence on the design of basic operations of separation.
To know the quality indexes employed to characterize the environment: air, water and soils.
To be able to follow and take part in simple discussions on physical, chemical and biological depuration processes withing a working group (in Spanish and English).
To be able to work in group, assuming a collaborative role.
6. Units / Contents
  • Unit 1: Introduction
  • Unit 2: Fundamentals of operations and processes
  • Unit 3: Magnitudes and units
  • Unit 4: Macroscopic conservation equations: mass balances
  • Unit 5: Macroscopic conservation equations: energy balances
  • Unit 6: Generalities on transport phenomena
  • Unit 7: Fluid flow
  • Unit 8: Heat transfer
  • Unit 9: Mass transfer
  • Unit 10: Environmental quality indexes
  • Unit 11: Treatment processes
    • Unit 11.1: Physical treatment processes
    • Unit 11.2: Chemical treatment processes
    • Unit 11.3: Biological treatment processes
  • Unit 12: Laboratory practices
    • Unit 12.1: Practice 1: Mass balance
    • Unit 12.2: Practice 2: Energy balance
    • Unit 12.3: Practice 3: Fluid flow
    • Unit 12.4: Practice 4: Heat exchanger
    • Unit 12.5: Practice 5: Filtration
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS, REMARKS

The subject is divided into 4 blocks:

I. General concepts

1. Introduction

2. Fundamentals of operations and processes

3. Magnitudes and units

4. Macroscopic conservation equations: mass balances

5. Macroscopic conservation equations: energy balances

II. Transport phenomena

6. Generalities on transport phenomena

7. Fluid flow

8. Heat transfer

9. Mass transfer

III. Quality indexes

10. Envinronmental quality indexes

IV. Treatment processes

11.1. Physical treatment processes

11.2 Chemical treatment processes

11.3. Biologicas treatment processes 


7. Activities, Units/Modules and Methodology
Training Activity Methodology Related Competences (only degrees before RD 822/2021) ECTS Hours As Com R Description *
Class Attendance (theory) [ON-SITE] Lectures E01 E02 E24 E27 0.64 16 N N N
Laboratory practice or sessions [ON-SITE] Practical or hands-on activities CB03 CB04 CB06 E01 E02 E03 E04 E05 E06 E24 E27 G02 G03 0.8 20 Y Y N
Problem solving and/or case studies [ON-SITE] Project/Problem Based Learning (PBL) CB03 E02 E03 E24 E27 G02 0.48 12 N N N
Workshops or seminars [ON-SITE] Cooperative / Collaborative Learning CB03 CB04 E02 E03 E24 E27 G02 G03 0.08 2 Y N N
Project or Topic Presentations [ON-SITE] Lectures CB03 CB04 CB06 E02 E24 E27 G02 G03 0.2 5 Y N N
Progress test [ON-SITE] Assessment tests CB03 CB04 CB06 E01 E02 E03 E05 E06 E24 E27 G02 G03 0.08 2 Y N N
Final test [ON-SITE] Assessment tests CB03 CB04 CB06 E01 E02 E03 E05 E06 E24 E27 G02 G03 0.12 3 Y Y Y
Practicum and practical activities report writing or preparation [OFF-SITE] Group Work CB03 CB04 CB06 E01 E02 E03 E04 E05 E06 E24 E27 G02 G03 0.8 20 Y Y Y
Writing of reports or projects [OFF-SITE] Group Work CB03 CB06 E01 E02 E05 E06 E24 E27 G02 0.8 20 Y N N
Study and Exam Preparation [OFF-SITE] Self-study CB03 CB06 E01 E02 E05 E06 E24 E27 G02 2 50 N N N
Total: 6 150
Total credits of in-class work: 2.4 Total class time hours: 60
Total credits of out of class work: 3.6 Total hours of out of class work: 90

As: Assessable training activity
Com: Training activity of compulsory overcoming
R: Rescheduling training activity

8. Evaluation criteria and Grading System
  Grading System  
Evaluation System Face-to-Face Self-Study Student Description
Final test 50.00% 0.00% A minimum mark of 4 in theory and problems is compulsory
Laboratory sessions 4.00% 0.00% Attitude in lab will be evaluated. The minimum mark is 5. Attendance is compulsory
Practicum and practical activities reports assessment 8.00% 0.00% A minimum mark of 5 in lab memory is compulsory. If this activity is failed, a test on practice could be taken
Progress Tests 20.00% 0.00% Progress tests on theory and problems
Theoretical papers assessment 15.00% 0.00% There is not a minimum mark
Assessment of problem solving and/or case studies 3.00% 0.00% There is not a minimum mark
Total: 100.00% 0.00%  

Evaluation criteria for the final exam:
In the evaluation of the different sections, the level of development of transversal and specific competences achieved will be taken into account.
The mark of each activity will be numerical (0-10) according to current legislation.
In all cases, the attendance to labwork and the delivery of a lab memory are compulsory. Both attitude (4 %) and memory (8 %) are evaluated.
The final mark is calculated taking into account the mark of final test (50 %), practices (12 %), progress test (20 %), writing and presenting a work (15 %) and case studies (3 %). There is a minimum mark in some compulsory activities: final test (4 in both theory and problems) and practices (compulsory attendance and 5 in both attitude and memory).
Specifications for the resit/retake exam:
In the retake evaluation, the final test will have a weight of 70 % in final mark. To pass the test, a minimum note of 5 in theory and problems is compulsory.
The final mark is calculated taking into account the mark of practices (12 %), writing and presenting a work (15 %) and case studies (3 %), provided that practices and retake exam is passed.
Specifications for the second resit / retake exam:
In the second retake evaluation, the final test will have a weight of 70 % in final mark. To pass the test, a minimum note of 5 in theory and problems is compulsory.
The final mark is calculated taking into account the mark of practices (12 %), writing and presenting a work (15 %) and case studies (3 %), provided that practices and retake exam is passed.
9. Assignments, course calendar and important dates
Not related to the syllabus/contents
Hours hours
Progress test [PRESENCIAL][Assessment tests] 2
Final test [PRESENCIAL][Assessment tests] 3
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study] 50

Unit 1 (de 12): Introduction
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 1

Unit 2 (de 12): Fundamentals of operations and processes
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 1

Unit 3 (de 12): Magnitudes and units
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 1

Unit 4 (de 12): Macroscopic conservation equations: mass balances
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2
Problem solving and/or case studies [PRESENCIAL][Project/Problem Based Learning (PBL)] 2
Workshops or seminars [PRESENCIAL][Cooperative / Collaborative Learning] 1

Unit 5 (de 12): Macroscopic conservation equations: energy balances
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2
Problem solving and/or case studies [PRESENCIAL][Project/Problem Based Learning (PBL)] 2
Workshops or seminars [PRESENCIAL][Cooperative / Collaborative Learning] 1

Unit 6 (de 12): Generalities on transport phenomena
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 1

Unit 7 (de 12): Fluid flow
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2
Problem solving and/or case studies [PRESENCIAL][Project/Problem Based Learning (PBL)] 2

Unit 8 (de 12): Heat transfer
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2
Problem solving and/or case studies [PRESENCIAL][Project/Problem Based Learning (PBL)] 3

Unit 9 (de 12): Mass transfer
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 2
Problem solving and/or case studies [PRESENCIAL][Project/Problem Based Learning (PBL)] 1

Unit 10 (de 12): Environmental quality indexes
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 1
Problem solving and/or case studies [PRESENCIAL][Project/Problem Based Learning (PBL)] 2

Unit 11 (de 12): Treatment processes
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 1
Project or Topic Presentations [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 5
Writing of reports or projects [AUTÓNOMA][Group Work] 20

Unit 12 (de 12): Laboratory practices
Activities Hours
Laboratory practice or sessions [PRESENCIAL][Practical or hands-on activities] 20
Practicum and practical activities report writing or preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Group Work] 20

Global activity
Activities hours
10. Bibliography and Sources
Author(s) Title Book/Journal Citv Publishing house ISBN Year Description Link Catálogo biblioteca
Calleja, G. y cols. Introducción a la ingeniería química Síntesis 84-7738-664-1 2008 La biblioteca posee además edición del año 1999 Ficha de la biblioteca
Costa López, J. y cols. Curso de ingeniería química : introducción a los procesos, l Reverté 84-291-7126-6 2002 La biblioteca posee además ediciones de los años: 1994, 1988 y 1983 Ficha de la biblioteca
Costa Novella, E. Ingeniería química Alhambra 84-205-0989-2 1983 Volumen 1. Conceptos generales Ficha de la biblioteca
Costa Novella, E. Ingeniería química Alhambra 84-205-0989-2 1983 Volumen 3. Flujo de Fluidos Ficha de la biblioteca
Coulson, J. M. Ingeniería química. Reverté Volumenes 1 a 5 (1979-1984) Ficha de la biblioteca
Davis, Mackenzie L. Introduction to environmental engineering McGraw-Hill 0-07-015918-1 1998 Ficha de la biblioteca
Kiely, Gerard Ingeniería ambiental : fundamentos, entornos, tecnologías y sistemas de gestión McGraw-Hill 84-481-2039-6 2003 Ficha de la biblioteca
Levenspiel, Octave Flujo de fluidos e intercambio de calor Reverte 84-291-7968-2 1998 Ficha de la biblioteca
Martínez de la Cuesta, Pedro J. Operaciones de separación en ingeniería química : métodos de Pearson 84-205-4250-4 2004 Ficha de la biblioteca
Masters, Gilbert M. Introduction to environmental engineering and science New Jersey Prentice Hall 0-13-155384-4 1998 Ficha de la biblioteca
McCabe, Warren L. Operaciones básicas de ingeniería química Reverté 84-291-7360-9 2007 La biblioteca posee ediciones anteriores Ficha de la biblioteca
Mihelcic, James R. Fundamentals of environmental engineering John Wiley & Sons 0-471-24313-2 1999 Ficha de la biblioteca
Reible, Danny D. Fundamentals of environmental engineering Lewis Publishers 1-56670-047-7 1999 Ficha de la biblioteca



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