Urban Networks and Systems in the Sustainable City
Code
10243
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente
Credits
3.0
Teacher in charge
António Pedro de Nobre Carmona Rodrigues
Weekly hours
1
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
Provide students with the fundamental concepts of:
The urban water cycle: technical and institutional solutions for the management of water use in urban environments, challenges and trends in good practice.
- The basics of theoretical and sizing of water treatment systems and wastewater oriented technologies that enable leading to more sustainable systems, including systems-oriented reuse (use of rainwater, gray water separation, etc.) .
- Policies and management systems aimed at the prevention and recovery of waste that are generated in the urban space and activities of construction and demolition of buildings (RCD).
Subject matter
- New visions for the urban water cycle.
- Water sustainable use in urban areas.
- The pipeline systems efficiency and water distribution.
- Prevention and control of floods in urban areas.
- Waste water system. Introduction to systems and treatment. Basics.
- New threats associated with chemical compounds such as endocrine disruptors.
- Innovative Systems. New paradigms. Centralized versus decentralized systems.
- National policy and community legislation on waste management.
- Prevention and recovery of waste.
- Systems for waste collection and public cleansing.
- Legislation applicable to the RCD and to the reuse and recycling.
- The problem of treatment infrastructure location.
Bibliography
Martinho, M.G. (Coord.). Manual Prático para a Gestão de Resíduos. Verlag Dashöfer Portugal - Edições Profissionais. (Data ?)
Martinho,M.G.; Gonçalves,M.G.; Silveira, A. (2010)- Gestão de Resíduos. Universidade Aberta (no prelo).
Metcalf & Eddy Inc, (2003) Wastewater Engineering: Treatment-Disposal-Reuse, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill International Editions, New York.
QASIM, Syed R. Wastewater treatment plants: planning, design, and operation / Syed R. Qasim ,2nd ed., CRC Press, cop. 1999.
Tchobanoglous,G.; Kreith,F. (2002). Handbook of Solid Waste Management. Second Edition. Mc Graw-Hill International Edition.
Winblad, U., and Hébert. 2004 & 1998. Ecological sanitation.Stockholm Environmental Institute. Stockholm.