ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
The subject TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGIES IN R+D LABORATORIES is included in Module IV devoted to RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT in the Master of Chemical Engineering and Bioprocesses
To carry out a review of the basic tools and methodologies available in the Department of Chemical Engineering and in the Central Services of the USC, which will enable the student to acquire knowledge about the tools used in the different research lines of the Department of Chemical Engineering.
To study the applicability of some of these methodologies on the determination of the most important parameters for their further use in monitoring, modelling and control activities of the different equipment and processes used.
To put in touch the master students with the different PhD students from the department with the aim of knowing the day-to-day of their research studies.
The contents, to develop throughout the course, are directly related to those indicated in the descriptors of the subject: “Revision of the different basic tools available in R+D. Equipment and General Services which support the research in the USC. Instrumental and analytical techniques in the research laboratories in the Department of Chemical Engineering of the USC. Methodologies for the interpretation and application of the obtained results to the research. Waste management in the R+D laboratories”.
The programme of the subject comprises the following units.
Unit 1. Characterisation of environmental samples I (Solids and Biomass): Physical parameters: Settling velocity, volume index, density and particle size. Composition: COD, volatile suspended solids, proteins, polysaccharides, DNA, elemental analysis. Morphology and identification: electronic microscopy, FISH and flux cytometry.
Unit 2. Characterisation of environmental samples II (Liquid and gaseous phases): Spectrophotometry, gas chromatography, TOC, TKN, HPLC, FPLC, capillary electrophoresis, gel electrophoresis, NMR, gas-mass, electrodes, microsensors, mass spectrometry, spectroscopy.
Unit 3. Evaluation of biological activities and applications: Determination of activities: Introduction. Biogas production. Substrate consumption. Respirometry. Enzymatic activities. Tritrimetric methods. Microcalorimetry. Measurement of bioactivity of natural substances. Applications: Obtainment of kinetic parameters. Biodegradability and wastewater characterisation. Toxicity and inhibition. Control and monitoring.
Unit 4. Techniques based on the measurement of physical properties: Thermogravimetric analysis. Calorimetric techniques. Techniques of thermal analysis (DSC and DMA). Rheological techniques. Viscosimetric techniques.
Unit 5. Equipment and infrastructures supporting the research in the USC (RIAIDT): Magnetic resonance. X rays. Electronic and confocal microscopy. Mass spectrometry. IR-Raman spectroscopy. Elemental analysis. Other services. Institute of ceramic of Galicia.
Unit 6. Waste management of wastes in R+D laboratories: Liquid and solid waste management. Waste identification and classification. Waste storage and management. The case of the USC.
Unit 7 Case Studies
Basic bibliography
APHA-AWWA-WPCF. Standard Methods for examination of water and wastewater. 17th Ed. Washington. (1989).
Complementary bibliography
SEVIOUR, R.J and L.L. BLACKALL. The microbiology of activated sludge. Dordrecht, Holanda.: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.ISBN 0412793806
SOTO M., R MENDEZ. y J.M. LEMA. Bases cinéticas y microbiológicas en el diseño de digestores anaerobios. Ingeniería Química,1993, XXIV (274), 191-201. ISSN 0210-2064
SOTO M.,R. MENDEZ e J.M. LEMA. Methanogenic and non-methanogenic activity tests. Theoretical basis and experimental set up. Water. Res,1993, 27, 1361-1376.ISSN 1879-2448
SPANJERS, H., et al. Respirometry in control of the activated sludge process: Principles”. Scientific and Technical Report Nº 7. London : IAWQ, 1998. ISBN 1900222043
http://www.usc.es/gl/investigacion/riaidt/
The subject is oriented to the achievement of the following skills included in the report of the Title.
Basic and general competences
CB7.- The students know how to apply their acquired knowledge and their solving problems capacity in new or slightly known environments in the frame of wider (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
CB10.- The students possess the learning abilities allowing them to continue studying in a way that will have to be to a large extent auto-directed or autonomous.
CG12. To direct and manage the organisation of the work and human resources applying criteria of industrial safety, quality management, working risks prevention, sustainability and environmental management.
CG13. To direct and perform the verification, the installations, processes and products control, as well as certifications, audits, verifications, assays and reports.
Cross competences
CT2. To adapt to changes, being able to apply new and advanced technologies together with other relevant processes, with initiative and entrepreneurship.
CT4. Capacity of analysis, critic and synthesis.
Specific competences
CE.6. To design products, processes, systems and services of the chemical industry, as well as the optimisation of another already developed, having as technological basis the diverse areas of the chemical engineering, understanding of processes and transport phenomena, separation operations and chemical, nuclear, electrochemical and biochemical reactions engineering.
CE.8. To direct and supervise all kind of installations, processes, systems and services from the different industrial areas related to the chemical engineering.
CE.10. To design, construct and implement methods, processes and installations for the integral management of supplies and solid, liquid and gaseous wastes, in the industries, with capacity of assessment of their impacts and risks.
CE.12. To possess the skills for the independent learning to maintain and improve the competences of the chemical engineering which allow for the continuous development of the profession.
The methodology of the equivalent course in the new curriculum, which offers face-to-face teaching, will be followed:
P4142209 - Techniques and methodologies in R&D laboratories
The assessment system of the equivalent course in the new curriculum, which offers face-to-face teaching, will be followed:
P4142209 - Techniques and methodologies in R&D laboratories
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Ramon Mendez Pampin
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816791
- ramon.mendez.pampin [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) Emeritus