Environmental Engineering Fundamentals

This module introduces core concepts of environmental processes and transport phenomena. Students learn about contemporary environmental problems, process categories, mass balances, and the fundamental principles of transport including advection, diffusion, and dispersion

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This module covers interphase transport mechanisms, heat transfer concepts, and gas-liquid transfer dynamics. Students learn about Hooke's Law, the Two-Film Model, and fundamental reaction kinetics with various kinetic expressions

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This module focuses on fundamental reactor models including batch reactors, ideal CFSTR (Continuous Flow Stirred Tank Reactor), and ideal PFR (Plug Flow Reactor). Students learn about steady-state operations and conversion calculations

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This module covers advanced reactor configurations including CFSTR cascade and plug flow with longitudinal dispersion. Students study residence time distribution (RTD) functions and experimental methods like pulse tests and step tests

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This module introduces reactor simulation methods including segregated flow models and numerical models. It also begins coverage of solid-fluid separation processes

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This module covers gravity-based separation processes including discrete particle settling, turbulent settling, and laminar settling. Students learn about drag forces, ideal settling tank models, and centrifuge operations

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This module focuses on particle surface chemistry, colloidal stability and destabilization mechanisms, coagulation with metal salts, jar testing, and the Smoluchowski equation for collision frequency

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This module covers paddle flocculators, jar test apparatus, and introduces various filter types including slow and rapid sand filters, along with filter media characteristics

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This module delves into advanced filtration concepts including window modeling, flow through porous media, energy loss calculations, and fluidization principles

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This module focuses on adsorption processes and equilibrium relationships, covering the Langmuir isotherm and BET isotherm models

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This module covers ion exchange processes, deionization techniques, and introduces basic concepts of disinfection

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This module focuses on halogen equilibria, electrochemistry, effective Henry's Law constant, reactions between chlorine and ammonia, and chlorination breakpoint

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This module covers disinfection byproducts (DBPs), dechlorination processes, chlorine disinfection kinetics, deviations from Chick-Watson model, and peracids

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This module introduces fundamental concepts of photochemistry and its applications in environmental engineering

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This module focuses on UV disinfection kinetics and UV dose distribution principles

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This module covers gas-liquid transfer processes including Henry's Law, air stripping, volatile compounds in bubble contactors, and gas stripping operations

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