COURSE UNIT TITLE

: POLLUTION PREVENTION TECHNIQUES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÇEV 4024 POLLUTION PREVENTION TECHNIQUES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Environmental Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR NURDAN BÜYÜKKAMACI

Offered to

Environmental Engineering
Environmental Engineering (Evening)

Course Objective

Objectives of this course are to analyze the environmental systems via integrated approach and to give basic approaches for sustainable natural resources management and less waste production considering professional ethics and responsibility.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Define the concept of sustainability
2   To be aware of the need for optimal natural resources management with a sense of professional ethics and responsibility
3   Application of pollution prevention techniques
4   Discuss the feasibility of waste minimization techniques for different production processes
5   Ability of compare to different waste minimization techniques considering changes in science and technology.
6   Prediction capability of risks from wastes during project design and operation of plant.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, Environmental management concept
2 Sustainable development
3 Waste production and management in industries
4 Transportation and stocking of raw and auxiliary materials used in the production
5 Chemical materials management
6 Industrial risk management
7 Clean production technologies, Applications of clean production technologies
8 Mid-term exam
9 Product quality and eco-labeling
10 Life cycle assessment
11 Comparison of waste treatment and disposal with waste minimization techniques
12 Regulations for clean technologies
13 US and EU approaches, IPPC directives
14 Discussion and overall assessment

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Pollution prevention technology handbook, Robert Noyes, Noyes Publications,0-8155-1311-9, USA, 1993
2. Hazardous waste minimization, Harry Freeman, McGraw-Hill, Inc.,0-07-022043-3, USA, 1990
3. Handbook of Pollution Control and Waste Minimization, Abbas Ghassemi, Marcel Dekker, 0-8247-0581-5, USA, 2002

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation and scientific discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 QUZ QUIZ
3 ASG ASSIGNMENT
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + QUZ * 0.15 + ASG * 0.25 + FIN * 0.40
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + QUZ * 0.15 + ASG * 0.25 + RST * 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

A midterm exam, presentations and quizzes will be considered as an assessing criteria of the lecture. Questions prepared considering the scope of previous lectures will be asked in quizzes and at least 4 quizzes will be made.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr. Nurdan Büyükkamacı, Tel: 3017106, e-mail: nurdan.buyukkamaci@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 1-2-3-4

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Student Presentations 2 2 4
Preparation for midterm exam 1 3 3
Preparation for final exam 1 2 2
Preparation for quiz etc. 4 1 4
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
Quiz etc. 4 1 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 48

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17PO.18PO.19PO.20
LO.155
LO.25545
LO.355
LO.4543
LO.54553
LO.65445

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