Chemical Engineering

-Municipal Solid Waste -Waste disposal -Waste treatment for energy production

Chemical plants

Materials provided by the professor

Class attendance is recommended but not mandatory

Written exam

Lesson in classroom

Waste characterization from industrial activities - Emissions and consumption: wastewater, solid wastes and air emission - Mass and energy balances - Quality control. Source and nature of pollutants - Direct and indirect toxicity in natural systems - Pollutant dispersion modeling in water and soil. Clean technologies and wastes minimization: general principles and applications. Quality of process water and auxiliary water - Water resource optimization: water reuse and recycle. Water and soil analysis and characterization. Wastewater treatment processes – Physical and chemical processes - Thermodynamic and kinetic of biological aerobic and anaerobic processes - Suspended growth and biofilm processes - Stripping of volatile organic compounds – Case studies. Organic sludge treatment by stabilization, thickening, dehydration - Final disposal - Process alternatives evaluation and design - Agro-industrial and manure wastes treatment Energy generation from biomass – microbial fuel cell. Soil and sediment remediation - in situ and ex situ technologies. Thermal, chemical and biological processes. Nanotechnologies and nanostructured materials for innovative wastewater treatment and soil remediation: application and environmental and toxicological issues.

Water characterization and chemistry

L. Di Palma - Course materials available on Sapienza e-learning platform S. Dar Lin - Water and Wastewater Calculation Manual, 2nd Ed. 2007, McGraw Hill.

Front-end lectures and exercises - Practical tests in laboratory

Face to face

Written test: two exercises on process calculation of reactors and treatment unit. Evaluation criteria for the written test: procedure correctness, numerical results accuracy, correct results interpretation. Oral test: discussion on theoretical aspects of environmental processes and remediation technologies and questionnaires on practical exercises. The final grade is calculated by adding the written grade to the oral grade and dividing by 2.

M.L. Davies - Water and Wastewater Engineering: Design Principles and practice, 2010, McGraw Hill Metcalf and Eddy - Wastewater Engineering - McGraw Hill WW Eckenfelder - Industrial water pollution control - McGraw Hill

Front-end lectures and exercises - Practical tests in laboratory