B8631 - MODELLISTICA PER LE PREVISIONI DI IMPATTO AMBIENTALE M

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide the modeling tools, from the simplest to the most complex, used in the professional/industrial field, for the evaluation of the fate and transport of pollutants, generated by different anthropogenic activities, in the different environmental media and of their cross-media effects, useful to integrate the authorization procedures for production activities or in any case useful to estimate the quality status of the different environmental media.

Course contents

Models for estimating emissions from source categories: storage tanks, petroleum product loading operations, landfills, waste water purification: descriptive and construction elements, physical phenomena involved and basic equations.

Predictive models for media contamination.

Transport phenomena (advection, diffusion, dispersion, ...) and chemical reactions (kinetics and equilibria).

Air and pollution phenomena: the advection and dispersion equation. Recalls of meteorology. The Gaussian dispersion model, dry and wet deposition phenomena, air-water and soil interfacial processes. Contents and use of specific software: AERMOD.

Water and pollution phenomena. Toxic organic substances in lakes, rivers and estuaries. Redox reactions, heavy metals and their migration into the soil. Recalls of a simple model: Streeter – Phelps. Balance equations and use of a specific model: QUAL2K.

Notes on ecotoxicology: methodology for assessing Environmental and Human Health Risk (EHHRA)

Readings/Bibliography

J.L. Schnoor, Environmental Modeling, John Wiley & Sons, NY, 1996.

European Community, Reference documents on Best Available Techniques.

EPA AP-42AP-42: Compilation of Air Emissions Factors from Stationary Sources

Teaching methods

Classroom lessons and ongoing exercises in the computer room. There are 8-9 practice classes of 2.5-3 hours each to familiarize oneself with the tools and carry out problems with the help of the teacher, and therefore to carry out an assigned problem as independently as possible.

Assessment methods

An open-book practical exam using calculator, in which students will be required to independently solve an assigned exercise using software tools, and an oral exam.

The oral exam must be taken in the same session as the practical one.

Teaching tools

Copy of slides presented in class.

Sample input files for the various software used.

Dedicated space on the virtuale.unibo.it platform.

Office hours

See the website of Giacomo Antonioni