Energy and Environment Management

Code:

PDERPQ005

Acronym:

GEA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Chemical Engineering

Instance: 2023/2024 - 2T

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Chemical Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Doctoral Program in Refining, Petrochemical and Chemical Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EAERPQ	0	Syllabus 2010/11	1	-	6	80	162
PDERPQ	4	Plano de estudos oficial a partir de 2009/10	1	-	6	80	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

It is intended to review and deepen the concepts related to environmental management in particular at the methodologies of life analysis and treatment of liquid and gaseous effluents.

It also intends at the energy management level, make an analysis of alternative energy sources and resume the concepts of process integration with a focus on the industrial practice.

It is intended to give a vision of the conceptual and software tools available to carry out an efficient energy and environmental management.

Students will have the opportunity to know to work with software tools, such as the FIE2PI and others.

Development of capacity for analysis and synthesis.

Development of the ability of critical reasoning.

Learning outcomes and competences

Taking into account the learning objectives of this course, the teaching methodology implemented allows the students to use traditional means and / or computational tools to obtain theoretical and practical knowledge about the concepts of energy and environment management. The seminars, with themes proposed by the students, are the adequate means for the students to acquire the abilities to realize their own learning.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Module A - Environment Management

1. General concepts of water treatment and liquid effluents.
2. Water and effluent treatment processes.
3. Introduction to environmental management.
4. Metrics of sustainability.
5. Removal of inorganic and organic micropollutants.
6. Life cycle analysis (LCA).
7. Environmental management instruments (ISO14000 standards).
8. Gaseous effluents: gas-solid separation.

Module E - Energy Management

1. Energy efficiency of organizations through the implementation of ISO 50001 reference standard.
2. Renewable energy for the production of electricity.
3. Process integration. Basic concepts of pinch analysis.
4. Maximum energy recovered network (MER).
5. Evolution of the MER network.
6. Advanced energy integration. Scenario analysis.
7. Process intensification.

Mandatory literature

El-Halwagi M. M.; Process Integration, Process Systems Engineering Series, Volume 7, Academic Press., 2006
Curran M.A.; Environmental Life-Cycle Assessment, McGraw-Hill, USA, 1996

Complementary Bibliography

Costello R.C.; Process Intensification: Think small, Chemical Engineering, 27- 31, 2004
Dewlf J., van Langenhohov, H. ; Renewables-Based Technology – Sustainability Assessment, Wiley, 2006

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical classes will be used to expose the main concepts and methodologies applied to energy and environment management. A fundamental component of learning will correspond to the application of the techniques to be used in several practical problems, for which students should use appropriate computational applications.

Evaluation (CF)

The evaluation has 2 components of equal weight: Seminar (S) and Test (T). Students can choose to take the Environment profile test (A) or Energy profile (E). The Seminar appears as a complement to each of these profiles, namely, if the student chooses to realize a test with profile A, he/she has to do the Energy Seminar (and vice versa).

Minimum grade on Test = 9, on a scale of 0 to 20.

CF=0.5S+ 0.5T

Software

FIE2PI

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	50,00
Teste	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	40,00
Total:	40,00

Eligibility for exams

Not applicable.

Calculation formula of final grade

Evaluation (CF)

The evaluation has 2 components of equal weight: Seminar (S) and Test (T). Students can choose to take the Environment profile test (A) or Energy profile (E). The Seminar appears as a complement to each of these profiles, namely, if the student chooses to realize a test with profile A, he/she has to do the Energy Seminar (and vice versa).

Minimum grade on Test = 9, on a scale of 0 to 20.

CF=0.5S+ 0.5T