Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

Students who have passed the module should be able to

• Describe different water bodies in the society and its surroundings and their interaction with atmosphere
• Describe natural and antropogenic pollutants, their origin and some ways to eliminate them
• Explain which chemical compounds are normally present in groundwater, surface water, sea water, brine and at which levels based on original water and weathering processes
• Describe a normal Danish drinking water treatment system and a Danish waste water treatment system

Skills

• Select a methodology from an array of advanced oxidative and reductive processes that separately or in common can solve a given recalcitrant water pollution problem
• Select unit operations and purification methods for produced water and other industrial water types

Competences

• Use proper terminology in oral, written and graphical communication and documentation within water treatment technology

Type of instruction

Lectures supplemented with project work, workshops, presentation seminars, laboratory tests and cases

Extent and expected workload

150 hours

Exam

Exams