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This course aims to advance students' abilities in applying and evaluating the physico-chemical treatment processes for industrial wastewater pollution control, air pollution, and contaminated groundwater remediation, as well as to expose the student to other less frequent pollution sources, such as noise pollution.
To gain an understanding of strategies, legal requirements and appropriate mitigation and treatment technologies for industrial pollution control.To teach the process design of selected treatment technologies.To promote the solution of open-ended, multi-disciplinary problems typically found in industrial settings.To explain principles of physical/chemical/biological treatment processesTo apply such knowledge to perform engineering calculations for simple systemsTo promote the concept of Kaitiakitanga and understand each engineer’s role as stewards of the environment.COURSE CONTENT:Air Pollution Control 12 Lectures (A/Prof Matthew Watson)Air Pollutants and its EffectsGaseous Pollutant Formation and Control in CombustionParticle Formation from Combustion and Other SourcesPollution Control Equipment: ParticulatesPollution Control Equipment: GasesMeasurement and Monitoring of Air PollutionIndustrial Waste Water Treatment 12 Lectures (Prof. Eakalak Khan)Sources and types of water pollutantsWater/Wastewater quality parametersTypes of industrial water pollution control processes/systemsBiological treatment processes (activated sludge, trickling filters, rotating biological contactor, and lagoons) for biodegradable organics (commonly found in food, beverage, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and pulp and paper industries)Oxidation processes (ozonation, Fenton’s reagent, and chlorination) for recalcitrant organics and inorganics/metals (commonly found in chemical, petrochemical, and electroplating industries)Air stripping for volatile organics (commonly found in chemical and petrochemical industries)Ion exchange for inorganics/metals (commonly found in electroplating, automotive industries, metal finishing, printed board manufacturing, metal finishing and semiconductor manufacturing industries)Soil Pollution Control and Remediation 12 Lectures (Dr Sean Pourazadi)Introduction to Soil, its importance, and types of contaminants in NZCalculations for phase-partitioning of spilled contaminants in soilPlume migration in aquifer and soil Soil remediation methods & technologies: - Vapour extraction; bio-remediation; washing; thermal desorptionGroundwater remediation: - capture-zone analysis; activated carbon adsorption; trickling-filter, Air stripping, Chemical precipitations of metallic contaminants and UV oxidation process)
Subject to approval of the Director of Studies
Matt James Watson
Eakalak Khan and Sean Pourazadi
COURSE TEXT/MATERIALSThere is no course text. Handouts will be provided to students in lectures and it is also expected that student takes notes. However the following books have proven useful to students at various times during the course:Air Pollution Control:• Flagan and Seinfeld, “Fundamentals of Air Pollution Engineering”• Baumbach, “Air Quality Control”• Davis, “Air Pollution Engineering Manual”• Mycock, McKenna and Theodore, “Handbook of Air Pollution Control Engineering and Technology”Water Pollution Control:• Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery, 5th Edition, Metcalf & Eddy/AECOM, George Tchobanoglous, H. David Stensel, Ryujiro Tsuchihashi, Franklin L Burton, McGraw-Hill, 2013• Hazardous Waste Management, 2nd Edition, LaGrega, M.D., Buckingham, P.L. and Evans, J.C., McGraw-Hill or Waveland Press, Inc., 2001Soil Pollution Control:• Jeff Kuo, “Practical Design Calculations for Groundwater and Soil Remediation”
Domestic fee $919.00
International fee $5,000.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Chemical and Process Engineering .