Air and flue gas treatment, Environmental technology I
7.5 ECTS creditsThe course includes lectures, dimension design projects, and practical exercises and laboratory sessions where students practise measuring methodology and laboratory safety as well as measurement methods used in environmental analysis.
The course covers the following:
- Environmental chemistry as a practical tool. Correlations between different environmental problems. Using reaction rates and equilibrium constants in calculations in order to assess the significance of different reaction pathways and to calculate substance concentrations. Equilibrium between gases and liquids (Henry's law).
- Stratospheric ozone - formation and degradation, natural and created catalysts, how ozone holes are formed.
- Tropospheric ozone - photochemical smog, the interaction of nitrogen oxides, ozone, hydrocarbons, and light, primary and secondary pollutions.
- Acidification - how nitrogen oxides and sulphur oxides react into acidifying substances, alkalinity, buffer systems.
- Climate change - greenhouse gases and their absorption of heat radiation, the carbonate system, aerosols, weighting of greenhouse gases.
- Processing of measurement data - propagation of error, confidence interval, measurement data analysis, uncertainty assessment.
The course covers the following:
- Environmental chemistry as a practical tool. Correlations between different environmental problems. Using reaction rates and equilibrium constants in calculations in order to assess the significance of different reaction pathways and to calculate substance concentrations. Equilibrium between gases and liquids (Henry's law).
- Stratospheric ozone - formation and degradation, natural and created catalysts, how ozone holes are formed.
- Tropospheric ozone - photochemical smog, the interaction of nitrogen oxides, ozone, hydrocarbons, and light, primary and secondary pollutions.
- Acidification - how nitrogen oxides and sulphur oxides react into acidifying substances, alkalinity, buffer systems.
- Climate change - greenhouse gases and their absorption of heat radiation, the carbonate system, aerosols, weighting of greenhouse gases.
- Processing of measurement data - propagation of error, confidence interval, measurement data analysis, uncertainty assessment.
Progressive specialisation:
G1F (has less than 60 credits in first‐cycle course/s as entry requirements)
Education level:
Undergraduate level
Admission requirements:
General admission requirements and registered for a basic course in Environmental Studies, 7.5 ECTS credits, plus upper secondary level Mathematics 3c/Mathematics D, Physics 2, and Chemistry 1, or equivalent
Selection:
Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.
This course is included in the following programme
- Master of Science in Energy and Environmental Engineering (studied during year 2)
- Bachelor of Science in Enviromental and Energy Engineering (studied during year 1)