ENVIRONMENTAL AND SANITARY ENGINEERING
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: Federico VAGLIASINDIExpected Learning Outcomes
Basic knowledge on pollution of solid, liquid and gaseous matrices and engineering solutions.
The issues related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) addressed along the course are: the sustainable management of natural water and wastewater and technologies for water treatment and reuse (SDGs 6 and 14); air and soil pollution and its mitigation and remediation (SDGs 3 and 15); waste management aiming at prevention, recycling and recovery (SDGs 11 and 12).
Course Structure
Front lectures and case study presentations
Detailed Course Content
Environmental Issue; natural and antropogenic polluttants;
Sustainability, circular economy and LCA
Environmental law;
Mass Balances
Foundamentals of toxicology, ecology and environmental impact assesments and risk analysis
Natural water and wastewater characteristics
BOD, natural attenuation;
Classification of water and wastewater treatment;
Sludge treatment
Coagulation, settling, filtration, adsorption, disinfection
Water softening, fluoration, iron and manganese removal
Water saving
Water runoff: environmental issues
Wastewater reuse
Waste management, recycling, composting:
Soil pollution and site remediation
Delocalized wastewater treatment
Electromagnetic pollution
Field visit to Catania wastewater tteatment plant
Air pollution
Case Study: the national site of Biancavilla, Catania
Textbook Information
Edizioni CSISA 2013. Progettazione di Impianti per il controllo del rischio sanitario ambientale. Contattare: info@csisa.it (in Italian)
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Per ciascun argomento in programma | Relativa dispensa del corso |