Electromechanical Equipments and Automation
Code
10405
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente
Credits
3.0
Teacher in charge
José Manuel Leitão Sardinha, Leonor Miranda Monteiro do Amaral
Weekly hours
3
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
At the end of this course the student will have acquired knowledge, skills and competences that allow them to select and also operate the most suitable electromechanical equipment, on a project or system of sanitary engineering.
Prerequisites
The main requirements are acquired in the previous disciplines in the course of environmental engineering / sanitary engineering.
Subject matter
Presentation and characterization of the main electromechanical equipments used in sanitary engineering. Description of the installation, operation and maintenance of those equipments.
Main control systems, automation and Instrumentation used in sanitary engineering.
Visits to wastewater treatment facilities, with explanation, on the field, about the installation, operation and maintenance of the most important electromechanical equipment and control systems, instrumentation and automation.
Bibliography
Metcalf & Eddy (2003). Wastewater engineering: treatment, disposal and reuse. MacGraw-Hill.
Pankratz, T.M. (1995). Screening equipment handbook for industrial and municipal water and wastewater treatment. Technomic Pub.
Katebi, R. et al. (1999). Control and instrumentation for wastewater treatment plants. Springer.
Silva, G.V.M. (1999). Instrumentação industrial. EST. ISS.
WEF/ASCE (1992). Design of municipal wastewater treatment plants.
Zappe, R.W. (1999). Valve selection handbook. Gulf Pub.