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.
Course competences | |
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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. |
Course learning outcomes | |
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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. |
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).
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% |
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Hours | hours |