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 (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
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.
Supervised teaching, in the individual tutorials of the teachers of the subject.
The subject will have a Virtual Classroom, in which complementary study materials of the recommended bibliography will be published.
6.1. Rating system
For all students, the following qualification system will apply:
Qualification system Evaluation mode Weight in the overall note Minimum value over 10
Final exam Individual 100 % 5,0
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the "Regulations on academic appraisal of two students and review of qualifications" will apply.
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Jose Antonio Souto Gonzalez
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816757
- ja.souto [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
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