Environmental Engineering

Module aim

To develop students' pedagogical competence, adapted to the individual educational practice, successful and modern planning, organizing and managing the study process.

Description

The subject reveals close connections between subject, scientific and educational competencies of a teacher. During lectures, seminars, and independent work, higher education didactics is analyzed, emphasizing student-centered studies, international and national higher education space, forms and methods of communication, methodologies in academic environment with different groups of society. The basis of studies consists of reflexive experiential learning, which helps to develop doctoral students' analytical and critical thinking, ability to evaluate their own and others' decisions, promotes a holistic and responsible approach to their activities.

Module aim

To introduce the most innovative research methods and methodologies providing specialized knowledge for the solutions to the scientific research and other areas problems.

Description

Science philosophy. Prevention of plagiarism. Search for scientific information. Scientific information bases. How to write and publish a paper in a journal indexed in Web of Science. Modern software tools for research planning and scientific results publishing. Modern software tools for research planning and scientific results publishing Knowledge transfer, commercialization and patenting.

Module aim

To introduce the most innovative research methods and methodologies providing specialized knowledge for the solutions to the scientific research and other areas problems.

Description

Science philosophy. Search for scientific information. How to write and publish a paper in a journal indexed in Web of Science. Big data and its analytics. Modern software tools for research planning and scientific results publishing. Quantitative methods for cross-sectional data analysis. Modern software tools for processing and vizualization of experiments results. Statistical processing of the research data and development of empirical models. Knowledge transfer, commercialization and patenting.

Module aim

To introduce the most innovative research methods and methodologies providing specialized knowledge for the solutions to the scientific research and other areas problems.

Description

Science philosophy. Prevention of plagiarism. Search for scientific information. Scientific information bases. How to write and publish a paper in a journal indexed in Web of Science. Modern software tools for research planning and scientific results publishing. Modern software tools for research planning and scientific results publishing Knowledge transfer, commercialization and patenting.

Module aim

To analyze the theoretical principles of noise generation and propagation, and to understand the development of new acoustically efficient materials and the improvement of noise reduction technologies.

Description

The module comprises basic theory about noise sources and its scatter with stress on physical and technical processes. Students are acquainted with methods to analyse noise suppressive materials and constructions. Regarding noise impact on human health software to simulate of noise levels and its scatter is presented.

Module aim

To get aquanted with the chemicals and chemical proceses naturally existing in the environment, with chemical pollutants formed in the environment, with their influence on people and other living organisms. To be aquanted with the modern methods used

Description

Chemicals naturally existing and the natural chemical processes that are going on in the Earth's atmosphere, especially in it's lower layers (troposphere and stratosphere), as well in the natural waters (hydrosphere) and in the Earth's crust upper layer (pedosphere); anthropogenical chemical processes and as of it's consequence generated chemical substances that pollute envirinment and negativelly effect on human and other living organisms; pollutants that cause negative changes in the global environment (decomposition of ozone in the stratosphere, global warming); the modern methods used for decrease the pollutants generation and for its removal.

Module aim

To give the knowledge in environmental physics and form the practical skills in application of fundamental laws of nature.

Description

The subject referred to as Environmental Physics is a combination of theory and practice that helps for doctoral students to gain a better understanding of electrostatic phenomena in the atmosphere, laws of light propagation in the atmosphere, heat pollution, ionizing and non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation in the environment, acoustic pollution, basics of fluid mechanics, earth's magnetic field, physics of energy conversion in the sources of renewable and non-renewable energy.

Module aim

To introduce the waste management technologies. Accentuate the waste management priorities, economic, environmental and social aspects and the basic processing and utilization technologies.

Description

Waste classification, theirs characteristics and sources of waste. System of waste management. Waste collection. Waste utilization importance. Waste recycling technologies, machinery and their constructions. Technical, social and economical aspects for waste recycling. Concrete technologies of waste recycling.

Module aim

To provide basic knowledge about biogeochemistry as a science that studies the chemical composition of living organisms and their role in geochemical migration, the distribution and concentration of elements in the biosphere, and the links between bi

Description

The module is dedicated to the theoretical knowledge of the main sections of biogeochemistry and the application of its main aspects to solving environmental engineering problems. The topics of the module include: the fundamental concept of biogeochemistry about living matter, its functions in the ecosystem, landscape and biosphere and its role in the evolution of the Earth as a planet; basic laws and principles of biogeochemistry; geochemical nature of biosphere evolution and its quantitative parameters; instability of the geochemical composition of the Earth's crust, its natural habitats and geochemical anomalies; technogenesis-induced changes in the exchange of chemical elements and the concept of the contamination footprint; biophilicity of chemical elements and their biological accumulation and notion in phytoremediation; distribution of elements in plants and their accumulation factors and process efficiency indicators; biogeochemical provinces; biological and biogeochemical cycl

Module aim

To gain knowledge about the influece of separate industrial activities on different environmental components, technogenic pollution factors and their impact on health of society, to get new knowledge about innovative environmental technologies.

Description

Global anthropogenic pollution problems and impact on society health. The new scientific research on air cleaning technologies, its tendencies and perspectives. The physical environmental pollution and its impact on environment and human health. The rating and limitation of pollition. Soil and hudrosphere anthropogenic pollition and society health. The sources of pollition and self-cleaning processes. Innovative environmental technologies are used to reduce pollution.

Module aim

Enhance students' knowledge and provide new technical and scientific information about water preparation and wastewater treatment technologies. To provide methodological knowledge necessary for planning and conducting research on water prepartation a

Description

Water needs, quality, natural sources, regulation and assessment. Water quality improvement: indicators, methods, achievable efficiency. Water preparation technologies. Water disinfection methods, processes, equipment. Wastewater composition, properties and quantities. Requirements for wastewater effluents. Wastewater pre-treatment, biological treatment, tertiary cleaning processes, equipment, selection. Sludge treatment: stabilization, thickening, dewatering, drying, burning, energy recovery and reuse. Management, automation and optimization of wastewater biological treatment.

Module aim

To provide knowledge about various environmental processes and their interrelationships, and to enhance mathematical modeling skills for addressing uncertainties.

Description

In the course, knowledge is acquired about mathematical modeling concepts, modeling levels, analytical solutions of transport equations, methods for solving differential equations, transport process equations, wave propagation modeling, computer programs, and the final synthesis of results.