Chemical Engineering

Sustainability, Circular Economy and Environmental protection - Sustainable Development: basic elements and open questions. - Industrial Ecology and Circular Economy - The environmental policy of the European Union - Voluntary programs: Environmental Management Systems (EMAS/ISO14001); Environmental Labels (Ecolabel/EPD) - Permitting procedures: Environmental Impact Assessment; Strategic Environmental Assessment; Industrial Emission Directive - Environmental protection through product policies: Integrated Product Policies; Design for the Environment; Extended Product Responsibility - Waste minimization and clean technologies Effluent disposal: dispersion models in water River, Lake, Estuary, Ocean Soil and groundwater characterization Principles of groundwater contamination - Causes - Fate - Transport of contaminants in groundwater Soil and groundwater remediation o Soil Vapour Extraction – SVE o Biosparging – BS o Bioventing – BV o Thermal desorbing o Bioremediation o Multi Phase Extraction (MPE) o Ex situ thermal treatments - Soil washing - Pump&Treat: Filtration, Membrane operations, Advanced Oxidation processes: Fenton , Electrochemical processes, Wet Air Oxidation, Photocatalysis - Air Sparging - AS - In situ chemical oxidation - ISCO - In situ chemical reduction - ISCR - Permeable Reactive Barrier - PRB - Plume Containment Solid and Hazardous waste treatment (10 hours) - Characterization - Biosolids and Constructed wetlands - Landfilling - Composting - Thermal treatment - Stabilization and vetrification --- radioactive wastes Exercises and design – case studies

Water and wastewater characterization Water and wastewater treatment

L. Di Palma - Course materials freely available on Sapienza e-learning platform.

Front-end lectures and exercises.

Face to face (unless otherwise specified by Sapienza)

Written test: two exercises Oral test: five written open question on theoretical aspects of wastewater treatment processes. Evaluation criteria for the written test: procedure correctness, numerical results accuracy, correct results interpretation. The final grade is calculated by adding the written grade to the oral grade and dividing by 2.

Freeman and Harris - Hazardous waste remediation - Technomic Publishing

Front-end lectures and exercises.