Air quality and pollution (5 cr)
Code: EE00CX40-3001
General information
- Enrollment
- 16.12.2019 - 10.01.2020
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 06.01.2020 - 30.04.2020
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Department of Forestry and Environmental Technology
- Campus
- Mikkeli Campus
- Teaching languages
- English
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Environmental Engineering
- Teachers
- Juho Rajala
- Teacher in charge
- Juho Rajala
- Groups
-
EEMI18SPEnvironmental Engineering, full-time studies
- Course
- EE00CX40
Objective
Students recognize, understand and are able to apply the following:
- mechanisms of air pollution
- air pollution control technologies
- basics of air pollution control and air quality legislation, regulation and related economic factors
- physical and chemical functional principles of atmospheric emission measurement equipment
- theoretical principles of emission measurements
- use of measurement equipment in practice
- calculation of emissions and the production of emission measurement reports
- functional principles of analyzers and related emission measurement methods
Content
What are the theoretical principles and mechanisms related to air pollution and the control of emissions?
What are the key emission reduction technologies?
What are the main emission-related administrative, legislative and economic issues?
How do the emission measurement equipment and analyzers work?
How are emissions calculated and measurement reports produced?
Evaluation
Students can
a. use professional vocabulary and concepts extensively and proficiently in different situations.
b. justify their information sources in a versatile and critical way.
e. evaluate and develop models, methods, software and techniques.
Evaluation scale
1-5
Qualifications
Basics of engineering chemistry and physics