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POLLUTION PHENOMENA AND CONTROL OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Vincenzo NADDEO POLLUTION PHENOMENA AND CONTROL OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

0612500023
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
EQF6
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
2024/2025

OBBLIGATORIO
YEAR OF COURSE 2
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2022
FULL ACADEMIC YEAR
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
12120LESSONS
VINCENZO NADDEO T Curriculum
ANTONIO BUONERBA Curriculum
Objectives
EXPECTED LEARNING RESULTS AND COMPETENCE:
THE COURSE AIMS TO DEEPEN THE KNOWLEDGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONCEPTS THROUGH THE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL COMPARTMENTS AND THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING CAPACITIES:
THE STUDENT:
- DEEPEN THE CONCEPTS OF ENVIRONMENT, POLLUTION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF ECOLOGY;
-WILL INCLUDE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITIES AND NATURAL SYSTEMS TO DETERMINE THEIR IMPACTS;
-WILL DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO IDENTIFY ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS;
- WILL ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MAIN ELEMENTS OF COMPARTMENT ANALYSIS AS A BASIS FOR THE STUDY OF PURIFICATION SYSTEMS;
- WILL INCLUDE A GENERIC MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.

KNOWLEDGE AND APPLIED CAPACITY OF UNDERSTANDING:
THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
- SETTING A MASS BALANCE FOR NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS;
- APPLYING MODELS TO INTERPRET THE MAIN SOURCES OF WATER AND AIR POLLUTION.

JUDGMENT SKILLS:
THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
- IDENTIFY THE MOST APPROPRIATE MODELS FOR DESCRIBING AND INTERPRETING THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE MAIN ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION PHENOMENA;
- ASSESS AND ASSESS THE QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL MATRIX.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
- WORK IN GROUPS;
- PRESENT ORALLY ARGUMENTS RELATING TO THE MAIN POLLUTION PHENOMENA AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY CONTROL.

LEARNING SKILLS
THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
- APPLY THE KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED TO CONTEXTS DIFFERENT FROM THOSE PRESENTED DURING THE COURSE
- DEEPENING THE SUBJECTS COVERED BY MATERIAL OTHER THAN THAT PROPOSED
Prerequisites
THE TEACHING OF "CHEMISTRY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING" IS PREPARATORY TO TAKING THE EXAM.
MOREOVER, IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THE ABOVE-MENTIONED GOALS, STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE THE BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS.
Contents
1. ENVIRONMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (15 HOURS):
THE CONCEPTS OF ENVIRONMENT, POLLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY. THE BIRTH OF THE ENVIRONMENT, CONSUMPTION, DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE MEANS TO IMPLEMENT IT.

2. ELEMENTS OF ECOLOGY (15 HOURS):
ECOLOGY, THE STUDY OF ECOSYSTEMS, FOOD CHAINS AND FOOD NETWORKS, ECOLOGICAL PYRAMIDS, PRODUCTIVITY AND TURNOVER TIME, THE ELEMENTS NEEDED TO SUSTAIN LIFE, FACTORS INFLUENCING GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT, BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES, BIODIVERSITY, THE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT.

3. ELEMENTS OF COMPARTMENT ANALYSIS (15 HOURS):
QUANTITIES AND UNITS OF MEASUREMENT (CONCENTRATIONS, FLOW, ... ) KINETICS OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL REACTIONS, IRREVERSIBLE ZERO REACTIONS, FIRST AND SECOND ORDER IRREVERSIBLE REACTIONS), MASS BALANCES, THE BASIC EQUATION OF MASS CONSERVATION, THE CONCEPTS OF "PROCESS" AND "TREATMENT", THE CONCEPTS OF "PURIFICATION" AND "PURIFICATION SYSTEM", THE EFFICIENCY OF PURIFICATION, THE CONCEPTS OF "EFFICIENCY" AND "EFFECTIVENESS", PURIFICATION REACTORS.

4. WATER POLLUTION PHENOMENA (20 HOURS):
WATER AND ITS QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS, THE HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE AND WATER RESERVES AT GLOBAL LEVEL, WATER CONSUMPTION, THE MAIN PARAMETERS FOR ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF WATER (THE SOLIDS CONTENT, THE DIFFERENT FORMS OF NITROGEN, THE BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (BOD), ...) THE MAIN PHENOMENA OF WATER POLLUTION AND THE DEOXYGENATION OF WATERCOURSES.

5. ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION PHENOMENA (15 HOURS):
THE STRUCTURE, PROPERTIES AND COMPOSITION OF THE ATMOSPHERE, THE MAIN PHENOMENA OF AIR POLLUTION, THE VERTICAL THERMAL GRADIENT, THE CLASSES OF ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY, THE PHENOMENON OF GLOBAL WARMING, TYPES AND FORMS OF POLLUTANTS, DISPERSION OF POLLUTANTS, METEOROLOGY, MAIN DISPERSION MODELS, EVALUATION OF POLLUTANT EMISSIONS, ODOUR EMISSIONS.

6. THE WASTE SOCIETY (10 HOURS):
THE PRODUCTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF SOLID WASTE, THE MANAGEMENT OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE, THE SEPARATE COLLECTION SYSTEMS, THE PLANT SUPPLY CHAIN FOR THE TREATMENT OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE.

7. INTRODUCTION TO BIOTECHNOLOGY (5 HOURS): DEFINITION, HISTORY AND CLASSIFICATION OF TRADITIONAL AND INNOVATIVE BIOTECHNOLOGY. THE MOLECULES OF LIFE: THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF DNA, RNA AND PROTEINS. THE GENETIC CODE.

8. MICRO-ORGANISMS (5 HOURS): PROKARYOTIC AND EUKARYOTIC CELLS, MODEL ORGANISMS, MECHANISMS OF TRANSFER OF GENETIC MATERIAL IN PROKARYOTES; VIRUSES, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO BACTERIOPHAGES.

9. MICROBIAL METABOLISM (5 HOURS): NUTRITIONAL PROCESSES IN LIVING ORGANISMS: AUTOTROPHS AND HETEROTROPHS; BASIC SCHEME OF METABOLIC ACTIVITY OF A PROKARYOTIC MODEL ORGANISM. MECHANISMS FOR THE REGULATION OF MICROBIAL METABOLISM.

10. THE NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF MICRO-ORGANISMS (5 HOURS): GROWING MEDIA, THEIR GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS, SYNTHETIC SOILS AND COMPLEX SOILS; SELECTIVE AND DIFFERENTIAL MEDIA AND ENRICHMENT MEDIA.

11. MICRO-ORGANISMS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY (5 HOURS): SELECTION OF MICRO-ORGANISMS- GENETIC MUTATIONS, OBTAINING OF MUTANT MICROORGANISMS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY. THE TECHNOLOGY OF INDUSTRIAL FERMENTATION.

12. ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY(5 HOURS): APPLICATIONS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY IN REMEDIATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING. EXAMPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: BIOREMEDIATORS, BIOSENSORS, BIOPLASTICS.
Teaching Methods
THE COURSE INCLUDES LESSONS (80 HOURS/8 CFU) AND EXERCISES, IN THE CLASSROOM AND/OR LABORATORY, AND TECHNICAL VISITS (40 HOURS/4 CFU). THE COURSE INCLUDES LECTURES AND CLASSROOM-BASED TESTS AND LABORATORY SESSIONS. STUDENTS ARE INVOLVED IN THE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE AIM OF STIMULATING THEIR PROACTIVE PARTICIPATION. DURING CLASSROOM-BASED TESTS A PROBLEM TO SOLVE IS GIVEN, AND THE INSTRUCTOR/TA MAKES A CASE OF HOW TO SOLVE THAT PROBLEM; THE MAIN GOAL IS TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFICULTIES STUDENTS MIGHT FACE DUE TO LACKING KNOWLEDGE OF CONCEPTS OR TO A POOR PROBLEM-SOLVING APPROACH, IN ORDER TO ALLOW THEM TO TEST THEIR LEARNING LEVEL.
Verification of learning
THE ASSESSMENT OF THE LEARNING OBJECTIVES WILL BE CARRIED OUT AT THE END OF THE COURSE AND IT WILL CONSIST OF AN ORAL INTERVIEW.
THE INTERVIEW WILL BE ADDRESSED TO EVALUATE: THEIR KNOWLEDGE ON THE BASIC ASSUMPTIONS AND LOGIC OF THE DISCIPLINE; ABILITY TO EXTEND THE APPLICATION OF BASIC CONCEPTS TO SOLVE ISSUES IN NEW APPLICATIONS, PROPERTY OF LANGUAGE WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE SPECIFIC TERMINOLOGY OF THE DISCIPLINE.
THE MINIMUM LEVEL IN THE EVALUATION (18/30) IS PROPOSED WHEN THE STUDENT SHOWS A FRAGMENTED KNOWLEDGE OF THE THEORICAL CONTENTS OF THE COURSE AS WELL AS A LIMITED CAPABILITY IN APPLYING THEORIC CONCEPTS TO A STUDY CONTEXT.
THE MAXIMUM LEVEL (30/30) IS PROPOSED WHEN THE STUDENT SHOWS COMPREHENSIVE AND EXHAUSTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE METHODS AND TOOLS AND IS ABLE TO USE THEM PROPERLY IN A STUDY CONTEXT.
FOR THE LAUDE, THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA WILL BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT:
-USE OF PROPER TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC LANGUAGE;
-HIGH ABILITY OF MAKING INDIVIDUAL JUDGEMENTS;
-CAPABILITY OF IDENTIFYING CORRELATION AMONG DIFFERENT TOPICS AND/OR WITH DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES.
Texts
COURSE NOTES AND AND TEXTBOOKS.

SIRINI P. (2002). INGEGNERIA SANITARIA AMBIENTALE. MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION. ISBN: 8838608970.

BONI M. R. (2007). FENOMENI DI INQUINAMENTO DEGLI AMBIENTI NATURALI: PRINCIPI E METODI DI STUDIO. CAROCCI. ISBN: 8843040995.

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