Unit of Study ENGN2003 Resource Recovery - Chemical and Engineering Solutions (2024)

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Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Science and Engineering
Placement

No

Pre-requisites

CHEM2001 - Environmental Chemistry

Enrolment information

There will be a 3-day compulsory residential for Online students that will be held on the Lismore campus. Please refer to http://scu.edu.au/timetables for further information on timetables.
Enrolment restriction

Deputy Head of School approval required to enrol in this unit. A Unit Approval Request must be submitted to enable approval and enrolment. See www.scu.edu.au/enrol for more infromation.

Unit description

Focuses on chemical and engineering solutions for dealing with waste, now and in the future. Students will develop an understanding of the existing, new and emerging technologies available for resource recovery. From this understanding they will be challenged to develop innovative thinking to solve waste problems.

Unit content

Materials Science - primary definitions and broad character

Economics & Policy

Waste Categorisation

Chemistry and Engineering of Resource Recovery

Reducing disorder
Engineering of sorting
Combustion
Pyrolysis
Bioconversion
Chemical sorting

Current Methods and Innovations

Household waste
E-waste
Transport waste
Industrial waste
Construction waste
Mining waste

Availabilities

Not currently available in 2024

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

investigate chemical and engineering interactions to provide solutions to complex resource recovery problems

manage chemical and physical conditions to promote resource recovery for real world problems

demonstrate their command of the multidisciplinary nature of understanding resource recovery

demonstrate understanding of processes used to treat and contain different types of waste

understand the principles of resource recovery.

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