ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 59.5 Hours of tutorials: 3.5 Expository Class: 10.5 Interactive Classroom: 14 Total: 87.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable | 1st year (Yes)
The subject “Laboratory of Air Quality Modeling”, 3.5 ECTS, is included as optional subject in the Module 3 “Monitoring and control of air pollution”, with the main goal of studying, in a feasible way, the modeling techniques applied to the evaluation of air pollution in a professional context.
The theoretical issues required in this subject are provided in the obligatory subject of the same module “Atmospheric Environment and Emissions Control”.
1. Subject goals
The subject “Laboratory of air quality modeling” is focused in the practical issues of techniques to calculate the atmospheric phenomena, as a natural gas cleaning system. So, the student will apply emissions, meteorological and air quality models.
Then, as a result the student will know the tools and datasets required to the correct application of air quality models and their results assessment.
The issues developed along 3.5 ECTS are briefly included in the subject oficial description of the MSc in Environmental Engineering Academic Programme, that is: “Air quality models. Impact of a new source. Photochemical pollution. Multisource scenarios. Air pollution emissions inventories. Air quality forecast systems. Gas cleaning”. As another obligatory subject in this Master includes the artificial gas cleaning in a practical context in pilot plant, the Laboratory of Air Quality Modeling issues will be focused in the atmosphere as gas cleaning system.
These practical issues will be developed and evaluated by using a serie of didactical units or chapters, depending on the available equipment, as follows,
Chapter 1. Air quality models: Atmospheric difussion. Wind. Atmospheric stability. Ground level concentration. Stack height estimation.
Chapter 2. Air quality models: Atmospheric chemistry. Simple chemistry and atmospheric difussion. Wind. Atmospheric stability. Background concentration. Ground level concentration.
Chapter 3. Air quality models: Complex chemistry in the planetary boundary layer. Photochemical smog. Atmospheric stability. NOx. Tropospheric ozone. Volatile organic compounds. Solar radiation. Nocturnal chemistry.
Chapter 4. Industrial emissions: Estimation and validation. EMEP/CORINAIR and US EPA methodologies. Combustion systems. Process industries.
Specific goals
In this subject it is intended that the student will be able to apply standard air quality models in solving different typical air pollution problems. Also, estimation and validation of industrial air pollutants emissions are done.
Basic references
Jacobson, M.Z. "Atmospheric Pollution". Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002.
Zannetti, P. "Air Pollution Modeling". Computational Mechanics Publications, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1990.
Complementary references
Jacobson, M.Z. “Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modelling”. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005.
Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, J., van Heerwaarden, Ch.C., van Stratum, B.J.H., van den Dries, K. “Atmospheric Boundary Layer” Cambridge University Press, New York, 2015. SINATURA: 220 7
Other documents
The teacher will provide practical guides and slides about the subject issues, in the teaching language. Also, technical documents about emissions estimation will be provided.
In this subject the student will adquire and practise a list of general competences, as in any University degree, and specific competences, either associated to the engineering or specific to the Environmental Engineering. From the competences framework of this degree, in this subject the students should reach the following competences,
Generals
CB6 – To get and understand knowledge that provides a basis and oportunity to be original in the development/application of ideas, usually in a research context.
CB7 – The students must know to apply their new knowledge and to be able to solve problems in new and less known environment, within wider contexts (also multidisciplinary) related to their study area.
CB8 – The students must be able to integrate knowledge and to abroad the complexity of produce conclusions from uncomplete and limited information, supported in thinkings about the ethic and social responsibilities connected to the application of their knowledge and thinking.
CB9 – The students must be able to communicate their conclusions and knowledge, and the final reasons that support them, to specialized and none specialized people with clarity and straightly.
CB10 – The students must have the abilities to learn, in order to follow their studies in autonomous and selforiented way.
G01 - To identify and formulate environmental problems.
Specific
E14 – Deep knowledge in the technologies, tools and techniques in environmental engineering field.
E17 - To know and design the operational unit applied to the environmental processes.
E19 - To know the procedures for the evaluation of environmental and technological risks.
E23 - To designing and calculate engineering solutions to environmental problems.
E27 – Modelling environmental systems, both natural and artificial.
E28 – Doing environmental impact studies.
E33 – To identify emergent technologies.
E41 - To learn to learn.
E43 - To lead and to work effectively in interdisciplinary teams.
E45 - To apply critical, logical and creative thinking.
E49 - To take decisions considering global technical, economic, social and environmental aspects.
Prior to the beginning of each practice, the student must have read the script of the same and studied the aspects that have been addressed on it in the mandatory subject "Atmospheric Environment and Emission Reduction".
The teacher will introduce the objective of each experiment and provide the necessary training in the management of the models. The teacher will then give each student a questionnaire about the practice to be developed, which he/she must analyze and respond to at that time. Each student will then need to develop the proposed experiment. Finally, the student will have the opportunity to review and correct the answers to his or her own questionnaire, which he/she will deliver along with the results of the experiment at the end of the session.
The internships will be conducted in 8 4-hour sessions. Depending on each practice, this will cover one or two sessions.
5.2. Skills development
The teaching activities correspond exclusively to the laboratory classes, so within them the student will develop all the competencies of the subject.
Competence Lab classes developed
General
CB6 X
CB7 X
CB8 X
CB9 X
CB10 X
G01 X
Specific
E14 X
E17 X
E19 X
E23 X
E27 X
E28 X
E33 X
E41 X
E43 X
E45 X
E49 X
6.1. Qualification system
The evaluation of the subject will be composed by the combination of,
Qualification system Assessment method Weight in global qualification Minimum value, 10-basis
Questionaires Individual 70 % -
Results at the lab Individual and team 10 % -
Work in the laboratory Individual 20 % -
The student must attend the practical sessions to be qualified, in accordance with the rules of this University.
Those students who, having attended the practical sessions, not overcome the subject at the first opportunity, to choose to overcome the subject in second chance should perform an examt that consists of a new practice related to those developed in the practical sessions. Corresponding qualification of this second chance to this exam.
For cases of fraudulent conduct of exercises or tests, the "Regulation of avaliation do rendemento dos estudantes e review of qualifications" will apply.
6.2. Competency assessment
Competency Assessment 1-Work
in the lab 2-Questionnaires 3-Results
General
CB6 1
CB7 1 3
CB8 1 2
CB9 2
CB10 1
G01 1
Specific
E14 1 2
E17 1 2
E19 1 2
E23 1 3
E27 1 2
E28 1
E33 1
E41 1
E43 1 3
E45 1 2
E49 1 2
The subject has a work load of 3.5 ECTS, considering 1 ECTS as 25 hours of total student work, resulting in a total of 87.5 hours, that are distributed as follows,
Activity On-site hours Factor Theoretical off-site hours TOTAL Average available off-site hours TOTAL AVERAGE available hours
Experiments 24 1,25 30 54 30 54
Questionaires 8 1,75 14 22 14 22
On-site tutorials 2 - 9,5 11,5 3 5
TOTAL 34 - 53,5 87,5 47 81
where the on-site hours indicate the number of hours of classroom teaching of the subject, including the various activities and face tutorials to be held therein; the factor indicates the estimate of hours you have to spend time student attendance; in the case of other teaching, this estimate is specific to each. The theoretical hours of off-site work result from the sum of the all the activities to be developed by the student, and that he should devote individually or as a team, without the presence of the teacher. The average hours of off-site work available corresponds to the actually available, according to the module calendar.
Students registered in this subject have to attend to the subject “Atmospheric Environment and Emissions Control”; alternatively, they can have the knowledge about atmospheric and air quality models.
In addition, they have to know the basis of use of several end-user software packages (Word, Excel, web). When necessary, the required basis for the use of mathematical models will be introduced by the teacher during the subject sessions.
The subject will be taught entirely in Spanish.
The subject will have a Virtual Classroom.
The admission and permanence of students enrolled in the internship laboratory requires that they know the information and comply with the standards included in the "Protocolo de formación básica en materia de seguridade para espazos experimentais da Escola Técnica Superior de Enxeñaría", available in:
1. Access to your intranet.
2. Enter in Documentación/Seguridade/Formación.
3. Click on "Protocolo de formación básica en materia de seguridade para espazos experimentais."
REMOTE LEARNING. Telematics teaching will follow the requirements set by USC's academic authorities and its resource programme. It is the student's responsibility to be aware of these demands. In case of doubt about the needs and characteristics of the technical resources necessary for the development of the academic activity, they will consult the User Service Centre or the ETSE management.
CONTINGENCY PLAN
Scenarios:
E2: Scenario 2: Distance.
E3: Scenario 3: Closure of the facilities.
Teaching methodology
E2:
Sessions 1, 5, 7 and 8 will be held in the Classroom, with the security conditions established by the University.
Sessions 2, 3, 4 and 6 will be held synchronously remotely, with the support of the teacher through the Virtual Campus.
E3: All sessions will be conducted in synchrotically remotely, with the support of the teacher through the Virtual Campus.
Learning assessment system
E2/E3:
The evaluation of the subject will be composed by the combination of,
Qualification system Assessment method Weight in global qualification Minimum value, 10-basis
Questionaires Individual 70 % -
Results at the lab Individual and team 10 % -
Work in the laboratory Individual 20 % -
The student must attend the practical sessions to be qualified, in accordance with the rules of this University.
Those students who, having attended the practical sessions, not overcome the subject at the first opportunity, to choose to overcome the subject in second chance should perform an examt that consists of a new practice related to those developed in the practical sessions. Corresponding qualification of this second chance to this exam.
For cases of fraudulent conduct of exercises or tests, the "Regulation of avaliation do rendemento dos estudantes e review of qualifications" will apply.