WATER-ENERGY SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Stampa
Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic year
2021/2022
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
ICAR/03 (ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH ENGINEERING)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
Course
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
2nd semester (07/03/2022 - 17/06/2022)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
45 lesson hours
Language
English
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Teacher
CAPODAGLIO ANDREA GIUSEPPE (titolare) - 3 ECTS
CAPODAGLIO ANDREA GIUSEPPE (titolare) - 3 ECTS
Prerequisites
Fundamentals of Sanitary-Environmental Engineering
Learning outcomes
The students will learn the latest advancement in environmental planning and technology leading to fully sustainable built or retrofitted future water centric communities, focusing on saving water, achieving net zero carbon emisions by relying on water conservation and renewable energy, and recovering, in an integrated way, energy and resources from used (waste) water and solid waste.
Course contents
Topics covered:
Historic Paradigms of Water Management and Sewerage
Urban Metabolism and its Footprints
The Fifth Paradigm of the Cities of the Future
Definition of urban sustainability for water
Sustainable and Resilient Urban Drainage and Green Infrastructure
Traditional urban storm water drainage
Green, sustainable and resilient urban drainage
Water Demand, Conservation, Reclamation and Reuse
Closing the cycle – from linear water system to recycle and reuse
Water – sewage – water cycle – an old concept of safe reuse
Substitute and supplemental water sources
Rainwater harvesting, stormwater, grey water, desalination
Uses and required quality (fit for use) of reclaimed water
Recycle
Smart water community concepts of integrated reuse and recycle
Treatment and Resource Recovery Processes
The anaerobic bioprocesses as core technology
Nutrient recovery processes
Membrane filtration - Membrane bioreactors
Reverse Osmosis
Waste to energy
Co-digestion and pyrolysis
Water/Energy Nexus
GHGs and energy footprint
Renewable energy sources and savings in urban settings
Renewable sources of energy
Energy and other resources from used water and organic solids
Syngas and biofuels
Methane production in anaerobic process units (reactors and digesters)
Microbial fuel cells and electrochemically assisted microbial reactors BEAMR)
Hydrogen fuel cells
Phosphorus and ammonium recovery
Water and energy recovery in distributed systems
Integrated resource recovery facility
Teaching methods
Frontal Lectures
Reccomended or required readings
Lecturer's materials
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Further information
Course notes will be available on Kiro
Sustainable development goals - Agenda 2030