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1. General information
Course:
FOOD WASTE CHARACTERIZATION AND MANAGEMENT IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY
Code:
58337
Type:
ELECTIVE
ECTS credits:
6
Degree:
383 - UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMME IN FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Academic year:
2022-23
Center:
1 - FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY
Group(s):
22 
Year:
4
Duration:
C2
Main language:
Spanish
Second language:
English
Use of additional languages:
English Friendly:
Y
Web site:
Bilingual:
N
Lecturer: PABLO CAÑIZARES CAÑIZARES - Group(s): 22 
Building/Office
Department
Phone number
Email
Office hours
Edifico Enrique Costa / Despacho 9
INGENIERÍA QUÍMICA
3412
pablo.canizares@uclm.es
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 12:00 to 13:00

Lecturer: CARMEN MARIA FERNANDEZ MARCHANTE - Group(s): 22 
Building/Office
Department
Phone number
Email
Office hours
Enrique Costa Novella/Despacho 14
INGENIERÍA QUÍMICA
6351
carmenm.fmarchante@uclm.es
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 12:00 to 13:00

Lecturer: JOSE ANTONIO MURILLO PULGARIN - Group(s): 22 
Building/Office
Department
Phone number
Email
Office hours
Edificio San Alberto Magno
Q. ANALÍTICA Y TGIA. ALIMENTOS
3441
joseantonio.murillo@uclm.es
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

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

The subject provides the basic knowledge to know the problematic associated with environmental pollution generated by the food industries. This subject identifies the main polluting sources, the basic principles of environmental management to be applied, and the fundamentals of wastewater tratment technologies, solid waster and gaseous emissions.


4. Degree competences achieved in this course
Course competences
Code Description
E06 To know and be able to handle the techniques and procedures of food analysis
E18 To adquire knowldege on food legislation and normalization. To counsel legaly, scientifically and technocally the food industry and consumers.
E20 To manage sub-products and residues of the food industry according to an effective environmental management
G01 To develop the aptitude to gather and interpret information and data to issue critical judgments that include a reflection on relevant topics of social, scientific or ethical nature.
G07 To possess ability of organization and planning, initiative, entrepreneurship and aptitude to be employed in teamworks. To possess capacity of resolution of specific problems of the professional area and to develop the critical reasoning and decision making.
G09 To develop the motivation for quality, the capacity to adapt to new situations and the creativity.
5. Objectives or Learning Outcomes
Course learning outcomes
Description
To acquire skills for the laboratory work, being capable of applying analytical processes that include the planning of the sampling, its treatment and the determination of parameters that concern the residues of the food processing industry.
To know the legislation on spillage considering the composition and the quantities / flows of the same ones.
To know the problematics associated with the environmental pollution generated by the food processing industries, identifying the principal pollutant sources, the basic of environmental management that have to be applied, and the fundamentals of the technologies of treatment of waste water, solid residues or gaseous emission.
To qualify the student to approach an analytical problem, to seek and to select the most relevant bibliography, to synthesize it extracting its more important parts, and to expose it and to explain it public.
To qualify the student to select the analytical method most adapted to solve a problem in agreement with the characteristics of the analite and of the sample.
To qualify the student in order to be sensitive by the ethical exercise of the profession, taking into account the social responsibility of his reports and his repercussion in the decisions making.
Additional outcomes
Not established.
6. Units / Contents
  • Unit 1: Wastewater discharge legislation and regulations
  • Unit 2: Taking and conserving water samples
  • Unit 3: Characterization of wastewater. Physical-Chemical and Biological parameters
  • Unit 4: Flow and pollutant load
  • Unit 5: Unid operations in water treatment
  • Unit 6: Waste characterization
  • Unit 7: Environmental problems of waste. Waste regulations
  • Unit 8: Waste Treatment Technology
  • Unit 9: Air pollution legislation and regulations
  • Unit 10: Air pollution. General concepts
  • Unit 11: Air pollution treatment technologies
  • Unit 12: Laboratory Practices: Environmental Analysis
  • Unit 13: Laboratory Practices:Environmental Technology
7. Activities, Units/Modules and Methodology
Training Activity Methodology Related Competences (only degrees before RD 822/2021) ECTS Hours As Com Description
Class Attendance (theory) [ON-SITE] Combination of methods E06 E18 E20 G01 G07 G09 1.12 28 Y N
Class Attendance (practical) [ON-SITE] Practical or hands-on activities E06 G01 G07 0.8 20 Y Y
Progress test [ON-SITE] Combination of methods E06 E18 E20 G01 G07 G09 0.16 4 Y N
Study and Exam Preparation [OFF-SITE] Combination of methods E06 E18 E20 G01 G07 G09 3.6 90 Y N
Problem solving and/or case studies [ON-SITE] Combination of methods E20 G01 G07 G09 0.32 8 Y Y
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 (It will be essential to overcome both continuous and non-continuous assessment).

8. Evaluation criteria and Grading System
Evaluation System Continuous assessment Non-continuous evaluation * Description
Practicum and practical activities reports assessment 20.00% 20.00% Preparation of memory of practices, discussion of results and conclusions.
Progress Tests 60.00% 60.00% Performance of progress tests consisting of multiple-choice and/or short-answer questions.
Assessment of problem solving and/or case studies 20.00% 20.00% Study of a type of agri-food industry, in which the management and treatment of waste is studied, as well as the chemical analysis of the different processes involved in this type of industry.
Total: 100.00% 100.00%  
According to art. 4 of the UCLM Student Evaluation Regulations, it must be provided to students who cannot regularly attend face-to-face training activities the passing of the subject, having the right (art. 12.2) to be globally graded, in 2 annual calls per subject , an ordinary and an extraordinary one (evaluating 100% of the competences).

Evaluation criteria for the final exam:
  • Continuous assessment:
    The formative activities will be evaluated as indicated in the table above, being necessary a grade higher or equal to 4 out of 10 in each activity and an overall grade higher or equal to 5 out of 10.
  • Non-continuous evaluation:
    Students who have not passed the course through continuous evaluation, will take a final test with a weight of 60% of the grade, maintaining the percentages of 20% for practical activities and problem solving or cases.

Specifications for the resit/retake exam:
Students who have not passed the subject by continuous evaluation will take a final test weighing 60% of the grade, keeping the percentages of 20% for practical activities and the resolution of problems or cases.
Specifications for the second resit / retake exam:
Evaluation criteria not defined
9. Assignments, course calendar and important dates
Not related to the syllabus/contents
Hours hours

10. Bibliography and Sources
Author(s) Title Book/Journal Citv Publishing house ISBN Year Description Link Catálogo biblioteca
 
 
Metodos normalizados para el análisis de aguas potables y residuales Diaz Santos SA 1992  
DEGREMONT Manual Técnico del Agua. Mensajero 2016  
Gilbert M., Master ; Wendell P. Ela Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science Pearson 2014  
Lagreda, M.D.; Buckingham, P. L. y Evans, J.C Gestión de residuos tóxicos. Tratamiento, eliminación y recuperación de suelo McGraw-Hill 1996  
Metcalf and Eddy Ingeniería de Aguas Residuales. Tratamiento, vertido y reutilización McGraw-Hill 2002  
Parker, A Contaminación del aire por la industria Reverté 2001  
Ramalho, R.S Tratamiento de Aguas Residuales Reverté 2003  
Rodier J. Análisis de aguas Omega 2011  
S.E. Manahan Introducción a la Química ambiental Reverté 2007  
Tchobanoglous, G., Theisen, H., Vigil, S. Gestión integral de residuos sólidos. McGraw-Hill 1994  
Vicente Conesa Fernández-Vitoria Auditorías Medioambientales. Guía Metodológica. Mundi-Prensa 1997  
Wark, K. y Warner, C Contaminación del aire: origen y control. Limusa 2000  



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