Prevention and control of air pollution

With this subject it is intended that the student acquire the knowledge related to the different types of pollutants and the causes of air pollution as well as necessary to address the control, design and operation strategies of the air pollution purification equipment derived from anthropogenic activities and paying special attention to industrial activities.
Among the specific objectives are:
• Know the main sources of generation of the different pollutants and their effect on human health and the environment.
• Become familiar with the techniques for measuring and evaluating air and noise pollution.
• Know the main strategies aimed at controlling air pollutants and their importance in environmental management.
• Select the most appropriate technological alternatives from among the possible purification systems for a specific problem of air pollutant emission.
• Being able to design the different equipment for the purification of polluted gaseous emissions.
• Conceive integrated installations for the purification of gaseous emissions.
• Know the specific legal requirements in the treatment of pollutants.
• Identify emerging technological solutions in the field of air pollution control

Particle removal. Elimination of gaseous pollutants and vapors. Fundamentals of meteorology. Dispersion and dilution of gaseous emissions. Fireplace design. Noise pollution, prevention and control measures.

Unit 1. Introduction to air pollution
Characteristics and composition of the atmosphere; definition of air pollution; origin of air pollution; typology and classification of atmospheric pollutants; basic concepts, emission, immission; sources of air pollution; emissions of pollutants in industrial facilities; characterization of pollutants.
Unit 2. Effects of atmospheric pollution.
Typology of air pollution problems: effects on health, environment and real estate. Pollutant Emissions and Sources Registry. United Nations Framework Convention ..
Unit 3. Elimination of suspended particles
Behavior of particles within a fluid; Particle separation technologies (considerations, advantages, disadvantages and design): sedimentation chambers, cyclones, electrostatic precipitators, bag filters and scrubbers
Unit 4. Elimination of gaseous pollutants and vapors
Introduction focused on the criteria for the selection of the optimal treatment strategy based on the characterization of the emissions; Classification of technologies (physicochemical, biological and combined); Torches; Incineration of volatile organic compounds; Adsorption and absorption of gases; Gas condensation; Biological decontamination of gases through the use of biofilters and biowashers.
Unit 5. Fundamentals of meteorology
Fundamentals of meteorology; dispersion of pollutants
Unit 6. Chimney design
Elevation of the plume and determination of the height of the chimney.
Unit 7. Noise pollution: prevention and control measures
Effects of noise on health; determination and characterization of noise; Legislation; noise sources; methods of noise pollution control.

Basic bibliography
• Cooper, C.D., Alley, F.C. Air pollution control: a design approach. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland, 2002. ISBN: 0-88133-758-7
• Davis, W.T. Air Pollution Engineering Manual. New York: John Wiley, 2000. ISBN: 0-471-33333-6.

Complementary bibliography
• Metcalf & Eddy Inc. Wastewater Engineering. Treatment and resource recovery. Volume 2. Nueva York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-259-01079-8
• Kiely, G. Ingeniería ambiental: fundamentos, entornos, tecnologías y sistemas de gestión. Madrid: McGraw-Hill, Interamericana de España, 1999. ISBN: 84-481-2039-6.
• Kiely, G. Environmental Engineering. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998. ISBN: 0-07-709127-2.
• Bueno J.L., Satre H., Lavín A.G. Contaminación e Ingeniería Ambiental. II: Contaminación atmosférica. Oviedo: Fundación para el Fomento en Asturias de la Investigación Científica Aplicada y la Tecnológica, 1997. ISBN: 84-923131-4-5 (v.1) y 84-923131-3-7 (v.2)
• Ullmann, F. Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Weinheim: Wiley, 2000. Online ISBN: 9783527306732; DOI: 10.1002/14356007
• Wark, K., Warner, C.F. Contaminación del aire: origen y control. México: Limusa, 2013. ISBN: 978- 968-18-1954-5

Specific competences
CI.10. Basic knowledge and application of environmental technologies and sustainability.
General competences
CG.4. Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical reasoning and to communicate and transmit knowledge, abilities and skills in the field of Industrial Engineering.
CG.7. Ability to analyze and assess the social and environmental impact of technical solutions
Cross-cutting competences
CT.1. Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
CT.9. I work in an interdisciplinary team.
CT.11. Ability to communicate with experts from other areas
CT.16. Sensitivity to environmental issues

Lectures: in these classes, taught to all students in the group simultaneously, the theoretical foundations of each topic are presented, taking into account the previously established objectives and the skills that students must acquire. Power-Point presentations will be used that will be available in the Learning Management System at the end of each topic, combining theoretical explanations with proposal, discussion and resolution of theoretical-practical questions in order to encourage the participation and attention of the student. Students will be offered the possibility of taking a questionnaire related to the topics explained in class, through the virtual classroom, for which they will receive a score that will form part of the classroom work section.
Interactive seminar classes: seminar classes will focus on solving exercises / problems that the teacher will provide to students through bulletins or problem collections. These newsletters will be available in the virtual classroom of the subject in advance of the corresponding seminar so that students can individually prepare the content of each seminar. Some of the exercises will be solved in class individually by the student for correction, forming part of the grade corresponding to the classroom work section.
Group tutorials: These tutorials are intended to promote the autonomous work of students and teamwork activities. Each student has 1 hour of group tutoring that will be used to develop a practical case (in group) for the treatment of a contaminated gaseous stream. Each group will deliver a final report.

The competencies to be achieved with each activity are:
Activity…………………………… Modality……………………Competences
Lesson…………………………Expositive………………… CI.10, CG.7, CT. 1, CT. 16.
Exercices…………… Seminar… CI.10, CG.4, CG.7, CT.1, CT.11, CT. 16
Practical case……………………………… Group tutorial…………………… CI.10, CG.4, CG.7, CT.1, CT.9, CT.11, CT. 16

Learning Management System (Moodle) will be used as a communication tool with students, offering students information on the teaching schedule throughout the course in the classroom and complementary materials for the study of the subject (teacher's notes as well as scientific articles -technical) promoting the student's autonomous study and the use of bibliographic sources in English. Some of the problems of the subject will be done using a spreadsheet (Excel)

The student's grade is a weighted average of the performance obtained in:
a) Exam (30% of the mark). The exam will consist of two well differentiated parts that have the same weight in the final exam grade: theory questions (50% of the exam score) and problems Numbers to be solved (50% of the exam score).
b) Activities (55% of the mark). Students will receive a score for the assignments / exercises / questionnaires they complete and submit (50% of the mark) and through the deliverable or report corresponding to the case study (50% of the mark).
c) Group tutorials (10% of the mark) that will be evaluated through the participation of the student in the debates that take place.
d) Teacher's report (5% of the grade). Students will receive a grade for their participation and proactivity in the classes.

Attendance to group tutoring will be considered compulsory, so if it is not attended, the student will be suspended in the first call. In the second call, it would not directly score in section c).
To take into account the scores obtained in sections b), c) and d) in the final grade, it will be necessary to achieve a minimum mark of 40% in each of the parts that make up the exam (theory and problems). The subject will be passed with a minimum final mark of 5 out of 10. Before taking the exam, students will know the marks obtained in sections b), c) and d). The student who has not taken the exam but has participated in the group tutoring will be considered as Not Presented. In the case of not passing the subject in the First Chance, the student will be evaluated again in section a) in the Second Chance and the grades in sections b), c) and d) will be kept. The marks of sections b), c) and d) from one course to another will not be kept, so the repeating student will have to redo the group tutoring, the classroom work and the group work.
In the event of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulation for the evaluation of the academic performance of students and the review of grades will be applied.
The competencies to be evaluated are the following:
• Group tutoring: CI.10, CG.4, CG.7, CT.1, CT.9, CT.11, CT. 16
• Activities: CI.10, CG.4, CG.7, CT.1, CT.11, CT. 16
• Seminars: CI.10, CG.4, CG.7, CT.1, CT.11, CT. 16.
• Exam: CI.10, CG.4, CG.7, CT.1, CT. 16

In the event of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulation for the evaluation of the academic performance of students and the review of grades will be applied

The subject has a workload equivalent to 4.5 ECTS that are distributed as indicated in the table. The contact hours indicate the number of hours of classes of the subject, through the various activities that are carried out, the factor indicates the estimate of hours that the student has to dedicate per hour of activity, being the hours of autonomous work one computation of the product of the factor by the activities and the total workload of each activity. The total workload is 112.5 hours, which implies that each ECTS involves 25 hours of student work.
Distribution of the training activity in ECTS credits:
Activity ………………. Classroom hours ………………… Student hours ………… ..ECTS
Master classes. …….… 28.0 …………………………… 34.0 ………………… 2.5
Seminars …………… ..… .9.0 …………………………… .11.0 ………………… ..0.8
Group tutorials ……. …… .... 1.0 ………………………….… .4.0 ………………… ... 0.2
Individualized tutorials… 1.0 ………………………….… .2.0 …………………… .0.1
Exam and review ……… ..5.0 ………………………….… 17.5 ………………… ..0.9
TOTAL ……………… ..… ..44 ………………………….… .68.5 ………… .. …… ... 4.5

The subject of Environmental Engineering should have been studied.
To achieve optimal performance in the subject, it is advisable for the student to have a series of additional knowledge about: English (reading level) and knowledge of computer applications at the user level (Word, Excel, use of email, consulting web pages) .
Attendance to class and the active participation of the student in them is recommended, it is also recommended that the subject be studied continuously and that the computer application available at the USC corresponding to the subject be used, according to the indications noted above.

Language: The subject will be taught in Spanish, but bibliography in English may be used to carry out work or consult information
It is necessary to use the Learning Management System.