COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BIOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÇEV 4015 BIOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Environmental Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ILGI KARAPINAR

Offered to

Environmental Engineering
Environmental Engineering (Evening)

Course Objective

The main objective of the course to introduce novel waste trreatment technologies used for removal of the poluttants from water, soil and air. These are pollutants which are hardly treated by conventional waste treatment technologies. For example; aerobic and anaerobic biological treatment of textile dyestuffs, pesticides, hydrocarbons, saline watewaters, low nitrogen containing wastewaters by bacteria , algae and fungi are discussed, biological degradation mechanisms and bioprocessing conditions are explained.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Clasify the microorganism types used in waste bioproseesing
2   Define the microbial degdaration mechanisms specfic to the pollutant
3   Aware of novel bioprocess technoogies used for treatment of pollutants in wastewater,solid materials and in gas.
4   Recognize the biyotechnological approuches used in removal of pollutants
5   Develope new approuches in application of biotechnology to Environemntal Engineering

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Microrganisms and their use in wastewater treatment Algae Yeast Bacteria Fungi
2 Enzymes Funcions of enzymes in wastewater treatment Enzyme Kinetics Types of enzymes and thir use in wastewater treatment
3 Biological color removal form wastewater Color removal by white rot fungi Aerobic-anaerobic color removal Color emoval by algae
4 Biological treatment of saline wastewaters Aerobic and anaerobic bacteria in saline wastewater treatment Environmental Conditions Physical methods
5 Biological treatment of gasoeus wastes Microbiology of gaseous waste treatment Tretament technologies
6 Biological treatment of soil Organisms used in soil treatment In-situ treatment Ex-situ treatment
7 Natural wastewater treatment technologies Wetlands
8 Natural wastewater treatment technologies Ponds Land treatment Wetland systems Phytoremeditaion
9 Bioconversion of waste into usefull materials Waste material types Microrganism types Useful product types
10 Biological tretament of toxic wastes Toxic substances Toxic organic susbstance types Biodegradation mechanism Microrganisms used in toxic substance removal
11 Biological wastewater treatment under Psychrophilic conditions Microrganism types Metabolism of microorganisms Case studies
12 Algale Biotreatment Processes
13 Micropollutans and Biodegradation Mechanisms
14 Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Biotechnology for Clean Environment, Prevention, Detection, Remediation, OECD.1994
2. Ulusal ve uluslararası makaleler

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, presentation, and discusions about the full scale applications of novel biological waste treatment technologicals

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 ASG ASSIGNMENT
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE1*0.175+MTE2 *0.175+ASG *0.15+FIN * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE1*0.175+MTE2 *0.175+ASG *0.15+RST * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Students need to prepare a homework about recent and applied novel biorprocess used in treatment

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Students mus prepare the homewrk and present it in the class.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr.Ilgi KAPDAN
Room Number: A 219
Tel: 3127130
e-mail: ilgi.karapinar@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Fridays at 10-12 o'clock

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparing assignments 1 5 5
Preparing presentations 1 3 3
Preparation for midterm exam 2 5 10
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Midterm 2 2 4
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 55

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.14
LO.24
LO.35
LO.4
LO.55