printer friendly pageCEE 268: Groundwater Flow
Flow and mass transport in porous media. Applications of potential flow theory and numerical modeling methods to practical groundwater problems: flow to and from wells, rivers, lakes, drainage ditches; flow through and under dams; streamline tracing; capture zones of wells; and mixing schemes for in-situ remediation. Prerequisites: calculus and introductory fluid mechanics.
Last offered: Winter 2014
CEE 269A: Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology Seminar
Problems in all branches of water resources. Talks by visitors, faculty, and students. May be repeated two times for credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 2 units total)
Instructors:
Kitanidis, P. (PI)
CEE 269B: Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology Seminar
Problems in all branches of water resources. Talks by visitors, faculty, and students. May be repeated two times for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 2 units total)
Instructors:
Fringer, O. (PI)
CEE 269C: Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology
Problems in all branches of water resources. Talks by visitors, faculty, and students. May be repeated two times for credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 2 units total)
Instructors:
Ortolano, L. (PI)
CEE 270: Movement and Fate of Organic Contaminants in Waters
Transport of chemical constituents in surface and groundwater including advection, dispersion, sorption, interphase mass transfer, and transformation; impacts on water quality. Emphasis is on physicochemical processes and the behavior of hazardous waste contaminants. Prerequisites: undergraduate chemistry and calculus. Recommended: 101B.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Luthy, R. (PI)
;
Thompson, J. (TA)
CEE 270B: Environmental Organic Reaction Chemistry
With over 70,000 chemicals now in production worldwide, predicting their fate in the environment is a difficult task. The course focuses on developing two key skillls. First, students should develop the ability to derive mass balance equations used to quantify the fate of chemicals in the environment. With so many chemicals having been introduced in the past ~60 years, many of the key parameters needed for mass balance models have not been measured experimentally. The class builds on
CEE 270, which developed methods of predicting equilibrium partitioning coefficients. For many situations involving reactions of target contaminants, equilibrium is not attained. The course develops methods of predicting the reactivity of chemicals based upon their chemical structures both qualitatively and quantitatively. natural reaction processes covered include acid-base speciation, nucleophilic substitution, oxidation/reduction reactions, and photochemical reactions. Key treatment ractions (ozone, UV treatment and advanced oxidation) are also covered. Prerequisites:
CEE 270,
Chem 31B/X.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-3
Instructors:
Mitch, W. (PI)
CEE 271A: Physical and Chemical Treatment Processes
Physical and chemical unit operations for water treatment, emphasizing process combinations for drinking water supply. Application of the principles of chemistry, rate processes, fluid dynamics, and process engineering to define and solve water treatment problems by flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, disinfection, oxidation, aeration, and adsorption. Investigative paper on water supply and treatment. Prerequisites: 101B, 270. Recommended: 273.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Luthy, R. (PI)
;
Choi, Y. (TA)
CEE 271B: Environmental Biotechnology
Stoichiometry, kinetics, and thermodynamics of microbial processes for the transformation of environmental contaminants. Design of dispersed growth and biofilm-based processes. Applications include treatment of municipal and industrial waste waters, detoxification of hazardous chemicals, and groundwater remediation. Prerequisites: 270; 177 or 274A or equivalents.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Criddle, C. (PI)
;
Strong, N. (TA)
CEE 271D: Introduction to Wastewater Treatment Process Modeling
The course will present a structured protocol for simulator application comprising project definition, data collection and reconciliation, model set-up, calibration and validation, and simulation and result interpretation. This course will include a series of guided simulation exercises evaluating resource consumption (e.g., electrical energy, natural gas, chemicals) and resource recovery (e.g., biogas, struvite, biosolids, recycled water) from a variety of treatment plant configurations. Coursework for all students will comprise guided simulation exercises begun in class. Students may elect to take the course for 2 units by completing a group project evaluating an assigned plant configuration and presenting the results before the class.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Appleton, R. (PI)
CEE 271E: Environmental Challenges and Policies in Europe (CEE 171E)
Current and future environmental challenges in Europe and related public policies in the European Union (EU). State of the European environment and human development, European environmental policy-making (multi-level ecological governance), global ecological role of the EU. Specific challenges include climate change adaptation, mitigation (carbon taxes, carbon market), climate change and European cities, biodiversity and ecosystems preservation (economics of biodiversity), energy management. Specific policies include environmental justice (environmental inequalities), human development and environmental sustainability indicators (beyond GDP) and absolute and relative decoupling (carbon intensity and resource productivity improvement). Open to undergraduates (freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors) as
CEE 171E.
Last offered: Summer 2012
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