Identifying Data 2020/21
Subject (*) Water treatment and energy efficiency Code 632844206
Study programme
Mestrado Universitario en Enxeñaría da Auga (plan 2012)
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Official Master's Degree 1st four-month period
First Optional 6
Language
English
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Bioloxía
Enxeñaría Civil
Enxeñaría Naval e Industrial
Coordinador
Servia García, María José
E-mail
maria.servia@udc.es
Lecturers
Martínez Díaz, Margarita
Servia García, María José
Vázquez González, Ana María
E-mail
margarita.martinez@udc.es
maria.servia@udc.es
ana.maria.vazquez@udc.es
Web http://caminos.udc.es/hosting/masteragua/
General description O tratamento da auga tense convertido nunha ferramenta fundamental na xestión deste recurso. De feito, o obxectivo fundamental da Directiva Cadro da Auga (2000/60/EC) é conseguir a eliminación de sustancias perigosas e contribuir a acadar concentracións cercanas aos valores de referencia de aquelas sustancias presentes de forma natural tanto nos medios de auga doce como mariños. Así, o obxectivo principal desta materia é axudar aos estudantes a identificar e avaliar factores e risco e procesos relacionados coa contaminación e o tratamento da agua.
Contingency plan 1.Modificacións nos contidos

Non se realizarán cambios

2. Metodoloxías
*Metodoloxías docentes que se manteñen

- Sesión maxistral (computa na avaliación)
- Obradoiro (computa na avaliación)

*Metodoloxías docentes que se modifican

- Prácticas de laboratorio (pasarán a realizarse exercicios coa profesora a través da plataforma Teams)

3. Mecanismos de atención personalizada ao alumnado

-CORREO ELECTRÓNICO: Diariamente atenderanse as dúbidas e consultas dos alumnos.
-TEAMS: Os alumnos recibirán atención personalizada a través da plataforma Teams alomenos unha vez por semana e tamén baixo demanda.
-MOODLE: Empregarase esta plataforma para proporcionar apoio aos alumnos na elaboración de traballos e exercicios. Realizarase un seguemento semanal e atenderanse consultas baixo demanda.

4. Modificacións na avaliación

*Observacións de avaliación:A avaliación adaptarase ás novas condicións e será realizada mediante traballos dos alumnos, do mesmo xeito que se contempla para a docencia presencial.


5. Modificacións da bibliografía ou webgrafía

- Non hai modificacións

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences
A19 Knowledge of advanced water treatment with different conclusions: depuration, re-use, purification, elimination of nutrients and regeneration treatments
A23 Fundamental knowledge of energy consumption and its environmental implications inside a development sustainable
A25 Knowledge and understanding of water in different situations: the working of ecosystems, environmental factors with the purpose of to make an inventory of medium, applying the methodology to value the impact and its use in studies and evaluations of the environmental impact.
B1 To resolve problems effectively
B2 To apply critical thinking, logic and creativity
B3 To work individually with initiative
B4 To communicate effectively in work surroundings
B5 Continuous recycling of knowledge in a general perspective in a global situation of water engineering
B6 Understanding of the need to analyse history to understand the present
B7 Facility to integrate in multidiscipline teams
B8 Capacity to organize and plan
B9 Capacity for analysis, synthesis and structure of information and ideas
C1 To understand the importance of the enterprising culture and to know the means at the reach of the enterprising people
C2 To value knowledge critically, technology and available information to resolve problems that they will face
C3 To assume as a professional and citizen the importance of learning throughout life
C4 To value the importance of the investigation, innovation and technology development in the social –economic advance and cultural in society
C5 To posses and understand knowledge that gives a base or oportunity to be original in the development and for applications of ideas, often in the context of investigation
C6 The students must be able to apply the acquired knowledge and their capacity to resolve problems in new surrandings or not well known within wider contexts (or multidiscipline) related with the study area
C7 The students must be able to integrate knowledge and to affront the complexity to formulate judgements from information that, been incomplete or limited, include reflexions about social responsabilities and ethics related to the application of the knowledge and judments
C8 The students must be able to comunicate their conclusions, knowledge and the last reasons that support them, to spezialated publics and not spezialated in a clear and unambiguous way.
C9 The student must possess the learning ability with permits them to continues to study in a manner wich will be in a great measure self directed and individual

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
The learning outcomes address water treatment and how it influences the normal functioning of freshwater ecosystems. AC19
AC23
AC25
BC1
BC2
BC3
BC4
BC5
BC6
BC7
BC8
BC9
CC1
CC2
CC3
CC4
CC5
CC6
CC7
CC8
CC9

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Water, energy and sustainable development. Life cycle analysis Water demand
Water footprint and carbon footprint
Greenhouse gases emission
Water reuse as an example of sustainable initiative Water reuse options
Treatment options and their energy requirements
Life cycle analysis of water reuse
Renewable energies to face water scarcity The problem of the water and the energy
Technologies based on renewable energies for freshwater production
Water and energy: two closely-related concepts Introduction
The use of energy to obtain the required water
Energy obtained from water
The use of water to obtain energy
The functioning of freshwater ecosystems Lentic systems
Lotic systems
Freshwater biodiversity. Types of aquatic organisms Microbes and plants
Animals
Effects of pollutants on aquatic ecosystems Suborganismal effects
Supraorganismal effects
The use of bioindicators to assess freshwater quality Bioindicators recommended by the Water Framework Directive
Chemical contaminants of water Types
Standards
Problems
Health Effects and Impact on the environment
Chemical treatments Coagulation-precipitation
Oxidation reduction
Ion exchange
Disinfection
High-service pumping
Water plant residuals managment
Types of water contamination Domestic wastewater
Livestock Wastewater
Industrial wastewater
Municipal waste water
Agricultural pollution
Water from urban runoff
Analytical methods for the determination of physicochemical parameters Analytical methods

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Guest lecture / keynote speech A19 A23 A25 B5 B6 B7 B9 C2 C3 25 25 50
Laboratory practice A19 A25 B1 B2 B3 B4 B7 B8 B9 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C9 25 25 50
Workshop A19 A23 B2 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 10 10 20
 
Personalized attention 30 0 30
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Guest lecture / keynote speech Regular lectures where the main theoretical contents of the subject are regarded
Laboratory practice The laboratory practice will be done mainly in the chemistry laboratory. Practices will illustrate chemical concepts and the students wil learn important laboratory techniques
Workshop During the workshop discussions will be organised and the students will be asked toproduce assays or reports in different formats

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Laboratory practice
Workshop
Description
Personalized attention to be provided mainly for laboratory practices and workshops

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Laboratory practice A19 A25 B1 B2 B3 B4 B7 B8 B9 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C9 Assesment will be based mostly on claass assignments. Attendance to laboratory classes and technical visits will be taken into account for the final mark 40
Workshop A19 A23 B2 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 Attendance to preparatory seminars and the work developed in the workshops will be considered for the final mark 20
Guest lecture / keynote speech A19 A23 A25 B5 B6 B7 B9 C2 C3 The knowledge of the concepts developed at the magistral lectures will be assesed and considered for the final mark. Assessment methodologies might include oral presentations, written exams, analysis of scientific papers, etc. 40
 
Assessment comments

Sources of information
Basic Water Environment Federation; American Society of Civil Engineers (2009). Design of Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants, 5th ed.; Manual of practice No.8; ASCE Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice No.76. Alexandria, Virginia: Water Environment Federation
US Environmental Protection Agency (2009). Energy Star for Wastewater Plants and Drinking Water Systems . http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=water.wastewater_drinking_water
Dodds, W. & Whiles, M. (2010). Freshwater Ecology. Academic Press
Malcolm Pirnie (2006). Municipal wastewater treatment plant energy evaluation summary report. Albany, New York: New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
Karassik, I.; Messina, J.; Cooper, P.; Head, C. (2008). Pump handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill (4th ed.)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2006). Wastewater Management Fact Sheet - Energy conservation. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water (http://www.epa.gov/own/mtb/energycon_fasht_fi

Complementary


Recommendations
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

Subjects that continue the syllabus

Other comments


(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.