Key words
Environmemental pollution and -technology
Objectives
- Know of the nature and origin of the most prevalent environmental contaminants.
- Give priority to preventive measures
- Obtain insight into environmental technology and engineering for environmental sanitation.
- Make simple calculations to decide about the necessity of environmetal sanitation.
- Make simple calculations with the most important variables which are related to noise pollution.
- Find information efficiently related to sanitation techniques and BBT's.
- Consulting professional literature on environmental technology
- Obtain insight into the general energy problem.
- Understand the complexity of environmental problems on a local level as well as on an international level.
- Obtain a realistic and critical view of the environment and energy problems.
- Fluent working knowledge on the technological aspects of VLAREM
- Make the link between the course and VLAREM
- Recognize environmentally hazardous activities and describe their environmental influence.
- Learn to make samples of ambient air and waste gases.
- Comparing analysis results with legal standards.
- Obtain knowledge on noise pollution measuring.
- Solve exercises and a complex interdisciplinary case study, in which elements of the course are incorporated.
- Stimulate safety and environmental awareness.
- Assess the importance and value of measurement data.
Topics
The course is thematically structured and essentially theoretical. In the parts "Air", "Waste" and "noise" a practical training is included.
The different items will be dealt with in an analogous way (as far as possible), each time with attention for the typical problems, preventive measures and sanitation techniques.
Each time when processing and treatment techniques are discussed, the typical terminology will be used. This is important for oral and written communication on all levels inside and outside the company.
Contents of the different parts:- Partim "Air": an overvieuw of the most important ari-polluting compounds and their origin, the effects of air pollution, preventive measures and sanitationtechniques, sampling techniques, measuring and analytical methods for the most important air-pollution compounds. A chapter is devoted to micro organisms because they are so important in biological sanitation-techniques. Attention is paid to the greenhouse effect, the acidification of the environment and the ozone-problem.
- Partim " Waste": different kinds of waste-products, the different parameters which characterise waste-products, sampling-techniques, preventive measures and treatment-techniques of the most important industrial and domestic waste-groups.
- Partim " Noise" which includes: the physics of noise, the hearing, different kinds of noise, environmental noise and noise nuisance, noise sources, noise fields, judgement criteria of noise, transmission of noise, noise measurement, calculating with analysis results and controlling the noise nuisance.
- Partim " Ionising and non-ionising radiation" covers the following subjects: basic-ideas of radiation physics, interaction of radiation, detection and measuring of radiation, preventive measures, taking measures in case of incidents.
- Partim "Light" covers the following subjects: energetic magnitudes for light, transposing energy in radiation energy, different kinds of lamps, quality of illumination and light pollution.
To complement their theoretical and practical training, the students make guided tours to different companies. During these visits, safety and environment awareness is stimulated just as the critical attidude and accuracy.
Examples of organisations to be visited:
- PCM (Provinciaal Centrum voor Milieuonderzoek): sampling-techniques, visualisation of measuring and analysing-instruments
- Waste-treatment plant
- A domestic wast burning oven
- A STEG-electric power station
- A nuclear power station
- A waste disposal site for industrial waste
- A composting treatment plant
- LNG-terminal in Zeebrugge
Prerequisites
Courses "Fundamental principles of chemistry" and "Fundamental principles of physics" given in the first year.
Final Objectives
Materials used
Syllabus "Milieuverontreiniging en -technologie Deel 1" available from the campus.
Syllabus shop.
Study costs
Syllabus: ca 400 pages (copy price fixed by the hogeschool).
Study guidance
Individual problems can always be discussed with the lecturer.
Teaching Methods
- Formal lecture
- Question and answers: the student will be involved intensively in the course (by means of questions and answers), to enlarge their knowledge and to clarify the concepts.
- Guided exercises: the exercises, which the students have to solve, will be thoroughly prepared during the course. The exercises have to be solved by the students themselves and will be explained and discussed by the lecturer afterwards.
- Visited companies: after the visit the students have to make a report (individual or in groups of 2 students)
- Teamwork: an interdisciplinary case study.
Assessment
First exam session: written examination 90% and 10% year work.
Second exam session: written examination 100%.
Examination Board Flemish Community:
First and second exam session: written exam 100%.
Lecturer(s)
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