CHE and the Environment

Catalog description

In this course students will apply chemical engineering principles to important environmental problems. These chemical engineering principles include: Material balances, Thermodynamics, phase and chemical equilibrium, transport and chemical kinetics. These principles are critical to solve current environmental challenges such as access to safe drinking water, remediation of contaminated sites and sustainability of chemical processes in the field. In addition to the application of these principles, students will learn the history of the environmental field such as the first use of chlorine as a disinfection, the advent of an activated sludge tank and the development of the first environmental laws. Combining these will allow students to design solutions for current challenges such as emissions of carbon dioxide and excess waste.