Soil Remediation
Code
10384
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente
Credits
3.0
Teacher in charge
Alexandra de Jesus Branco Ribeiro
Weekly hours
3
Total hours
49
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
- Aims:
This course is for students wanting to develop expertise in designing solutions for contaminated sites. The methodology of evaluation of contaminated sites will be applied. Tools for remediation will be considered according to the state-of-the-art. The students will follow a practical-theoretical approach, following on-going and concluded projects as case studies, allowing a hands-on approach to the implementation of such techniques.
Subject matter
1. FRAMEWORK, KEY CONCEPTS AND TERMINOLOGY ON SOIL REMEDIATION; METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS.
2. SOIL AND SOIL CONTAMINATION. Soil functions and uses. Soil quality degradation. Thematic Strategy on Soil Protection. Some important properties of soil contamination / remediation: texture,OM; CTC, soil water, pH.
Contamination of soils by different classes of pollutants. Legal Regime of Contaminated Soils. Developments in progress. National Strategy for Contaminated Soils 2011-2016. Contaminated Areas inPortugal. Examples of Environmental Liabilities and what is being done.
Management of Contaminated Sites in the EU and other countries.
3. INTEGRATED METHODOLOGY FOR ASSESSMENT OF CONTAMINATED SITES. Evaluation plan and investigation phases.
4. Remediation techniques. In-situ and ex-situ (on-site and off-site) processes: Thermal, Physical-chemical, Electro-chemical, Biological. State of development, use, applicability, reliability and duration.
5. CASE STUDIES
Bibliography
Nathanail, C. P.; Bardos, R. P. 2004. Reclamation of Contaminated Land. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex,England, ISBN 0-471-98560-0, 238 pp..
Prasad, M.N.V., Sajwan, K.S., Naidu, R. (Eds.) 2006. Trace Elements in the Environment: Biogeochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioremediation,Taylor & Francis, CRCPress,Florida,USA, ISBN 1-56670-685-8, 726 pp..
Reddy, K., Cameselle, C. (Eds.) 2009. Electrochemical Remediation Technologies for Polluted Soils, Sediments and Groundwater. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,Hoboken,New Jersey,USA, ISBN 978-0-470-38343-8, 732 pp..
Stegmann, R.; Brunner, G.; Calmano, W., Matz, G. (Eds.) 2001. Treatment of Contaminated Soil. Fundamentals, Analysis, Applications. Springer,Berlin, ISBN 3-540-41736-2, 658 pp..
van Liedekerke, M.; Prokop, G.; Rabl-Berger, S.; Kibblewhite, M. 2012. Progress in the Management of Contaminated Sites (CSI 015). Draft report, European Commission, 12 pp..
Teaching method
Lectures, lecturing of problem-solving sessions and laboratory sessions are carried out in the Laboratory 143, that should be equiped with data-show.
The pedagogic material is available for the students in the Discipline Sheet created in the Moodle. This sheet also allows students to follow the Course through the whole semester, e.g. in what concerns the work carried out in small working groups.
Evaluation method
1 – EVALUATION 1.1 – The admission to the final exam is conditioned by a) absences must be equal or below 1/3 of the total number of classes. b) Delivering and oral presentation of a team report. Each team must have 2 students. This report represents 35% of the final grade. The compliance of a) and b) is compulsory for final exam admission. 1.2 – 1.2.1. LECTURES EVALUATION represents 30% of the final grade. It is done through 1 test during the semester. The final grade is calculated by the weighted average. 1.2.2. Delivering of an individual report, which represents 35% of the final grade. 1.2.3. Evaluation through final exam. The conditions for final exam evaluation are the fulfilment of the admission condition (number of presences and final report) and students who failed. The students who want to increase the final grade are also admitted to the final exam. 1.3 – Team report: The report, with 10 pages maximum, must comply with the format made available to every student through the page of the discipline in Moodle. It has a date of delivery according to its subject. Each team will perform an oral presentation of their report, which must not exceed 30 minutes.