Introduction to environmental engineering
Also listed as: מבוא להנדסת סביבה
The entry course for the environmental-engineering direction: water treatment, air quality, contaminant transport and the regulation that governs all three.
- Semester
- Semester A
- Weekly hours
- 4h
- Counts as
- Department electives
- Interest areas
- Environment and energy
Comes after
No listed prerequisite.
Opens up
- Pollutant transport
- MSc in environmental engineering
What it covers
Topics
- Mass and energy balances for environmental systems
- Water quality and treatment: coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, disinfection
- Biological treatment and BOD kinetics
- Air pollution: sources, Gaussian plume dispersion, control technology
- Solid and hazardous waste
- Environmental chemistry and risk assessment
- Sustainability, climate and the regulatory framework
Results worth carrying out
Gaussian plume, ground-level centreline
First-order BOD decay
Stirred-reactor mass balance
Figures worth knowing
- Plume-dispersion diagrams
- Treatment-train flowcharts
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