Water and Soil Pollution

Code: PAO11387L

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Environment and Ecology Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Água potável e saneamento - Garantir disponibilidade e manejo sustentável da água e saneamento para todos.

Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis - Tornar as cidades e os assentamentos humanos inclusivos, seguros, resilientes e sustentáveis.

Produção e consumo sustentáveis - Assegurar padrões de produção e de consumo sustentáveis.

Proteger a vida marinha - Conservação e uso sustentável dos oceanos, dos mares, e dos recursos marinhos para o desenvolvimento sustentável.

Proteger a vida terrestre - Proteger, recuperar e promover o uso sustentável dos ecossistemas terrestres, gerir de forma sustentável as florestas, combater a desertificação, deter e reverter a degradação da Terra e deter a perda da biodiversidade.

Learning Goals

Give the student an applied education in the various technologies of control and treatment of water and wastewater, and reuse; and an applied education in the various technologies of control and treatment of solid waste, recovery of polluted and degraded soils and management of sites.

Module 1: Water pollution: surface and underground. Main pollutants. Legislation.
Module 2: Characterization of domestic and industrial wastewater. Quality objectives and treatment requirements. Operations and processes of physical, chemical and biological treatment. Preliminar treatment. Primary treatment. Secondary treatment. Terciary treatment. Treatment processes concerning the reuse of wastewater. Aplications of wastewater reuse. Monitoring. Legal framework
Module 3: Soil pollution. Main pollutants. Recovery of polluted and degraded soils. Restoration of soil fertility and sustainable management. Legislation.
Module 4: Solid residues. Production and treatment. Recycling and reuse. Monitoring. Legislation.

Teaching Methods

There are 2 theoretical-practical hours per week in which the concepts and theoretical foundations are explained, complemented by exercises and/or study visits in which answers to questions are required.
Given the diverse programme of this curricular unit, several teachers with different backgrounds are involved in the teaching, following the order presented in the syllabus (modules).

Assessment

Continuous assessment system: a test on the subject taught in each module (a maximum of 4 tests), in which the practical component is worth 25% and the theoretical component 75%. The grade is the weighted average of the tests taken, considering the number of lessons taught in each module. Each test takes place after the end of the module, lasting 1 hour and on a date to be agreed with the students. The minimum mark is 8, with a positive final mark (equal to or greater than 10).
Exam regime: the student takes a single assessment test (100 per cent) which covers all the material taught.

Teaching Staff

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