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| GENV0001-1 | Environmental Engineering
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Alain Dassargues, Benjamin Dewals, Angélique Léonard, Michel Pirotton |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | Environmental Engineering
Each part of the course follows the DPSIR analysis framework illustrated by concrete examples
Part "Environmental flows and hydraulic engineering"
Michel Pirotton, Benjamin J. Dewals
1 Introduction and fundamentals
- Historical examples
- Fundamentals in hydrology and hydraulics (including sediment transport)
- Examples of contemporary hydraulic structures
2 Environmental impacts
- Impacts on the flow
- Impacts on the bed morphology
- Impacts on water quality
3 Prevention, protection and remediation measures
Regulation, bank protections, compensation measures, stability of river beds, fish passages, flood management and flood risk analysis, flushing operations ...
Part 'Georesources and geohazard'
A.Dassargues
1 Introduction
- General introduction
- Earth on the move: formation, composition, plate tectonic, exchanges and cyclus, erosions-sedimentation, heterogeneity of the underground
- Vulnerable Earth
2 Energetical, mineral and metallic georesources
- Introduction: resources and reserves
- Mineral resources and ores
- Fossil fuels
- Geothermal possibilities
- Environmental aspects of metallic georesources exploitation
3 Groundwater flow and quality
- Introduction, definitions, basic notions
- Hydraulic conductivity in the underground
- Contaminations and solute transport
- Risk assessment for aquifer contamination
- Groundwater salinisation
4 Land subsidence due to pumping: natural and induced geohazard
- evolving effective stress in a saturated porous medium with groundwater pumping in confined and unconfined aquifer
- examples
5 Geological solutions for underground storages
- Radioactive waste disposal
- Solid and inert waste disposal
- Fluid and gas storage: example of the CO2 storage
Part 'Environmental chemical engineering '
A. Léonard
1.Introduction2. Atmospheric pollution
- Introduction
- Inventory of main pollutants
-Impacts on the environnement and human health
- Fight against atmospheric pollution: from prevention to remediation
3. Water pollution
- Water: fondamental aspects
- Fight against water pollution: from prevention to remediation
4. Environnemental protection
- Integrated and additive protection
- Environnemental management (including Life Cycle Assessment) |
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| Course objective : | Introduction for student in Engineering to Environmental issues and challenges |
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| Organization : | First semester: wednesday pm |
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| Written notes : | A copy of the transparents and/or written notes will be available. |
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| Assessment : | Written exam |
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| Contacts : | Prof. M. Pirotton & Dr. B. Dewals: Michel.Pirotton@ulg.ac.be(agh.lejeune@ulg.ac.be)
Prof. A. Dassargues: Alain.Dassargues@ulg.ac.be
Prof. A. Léonard
A.Leonard@ulg.ac.be |
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