Emission measurements and environmental technology (5 cr)

Objective

Student will recognize, understand and will be able to apply the following: - mechanisms of environmental pollution and cleaning - soil, air and water related cleaning technologies and waste handling process - basics of the field specific environmental administration, legislation, regulation and related economic factors - physcial and chemical functional principles of emission masurement equipment - theoretical principles of emission measurement - use of measurement equipment in practice - calculation of emissions and producing emission measurement reports - functional princciples of analyzers and related emission methods

Content

What are the theoretical principles and mechanisms related to the pollution and cleaning of emissions? What are the key cleaning technologies? What are the main emission related adminisrative, legislative and economic issues? How the emission measurement equipment and analyzers work? How to calculate emissions and produce measurement reports?

Course material

Learn materials.
• Learning Environment for Papermaking and Automation, KnowPap, AEL and Prowledge, 2015, Finland.
• Learning Environment for Chemical Pulping and Automation, KnowPulp, AEL and Prowledge, 2015, Finland.
• TOXOER MOOC material in http://moodle.toxoer.com/, EU ERASMUS TOXOER project 2015-2018.

Study forms and methods

Työviikkopohjainen oppimisväylä:
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Opintoja nopeuttava oppimisväylä:
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Työhön integroitu oppimisväylä:
After completing this course, you will be able to
• explain the mechanisms of environmental pollution in soil, air and water
• describe the related cleaning technologies and waste handling processes
• physical and chemical working principles of online and offline emission measurement technology
• use emission measurement equipment in industrial and authority practices
• analyse and calculate the amount of emissions coming from different anthropogenic activities, and produce emission measurement reports
• describe the main features of field specific environmental administration, legislation, regulation and related economic factors.
What are the theoretical principles and mechanisms related to the pollution and cleaning of emissions?
What are the key cleaning technologies?
How do the emission measurement systems and analysers work?
How are you able to estimate emissions and produce measurement reports?
What are most significant emissions related administrative, legislative and economic issues?
STUDENTS MAY CHOOSE THE LEARNING PERIOD.

International cooperation

Course materials produced in the TOX-OER project together with 6 other EU partner institutions.
http://moodle.toxoer.com/.

Student workload

135 hours self-study with Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) materials and Learn materials.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

The course grade consists of partial grades: Total grade = 0.4 * Part 1 grade + 0.2 * Part 2 grade + 0.2 * Part 3 grade + 0.2 * Part 4 grade.
Partial grades 0-5.

Further information

Not required to have any prior know-how or skills.