• Basic information
• Learning outcomes
• Contents
• Assessment
• Workload

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify and distinguish the membrane processes and membrane contactors under the title of Process Intensification in environmental engineering.

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Define and manipulate advanced concepts of Environmental Engineering
   2. Demonstrate awareness for the social impacts of solutions to advanced problems
   3. Review the literature critically pertaining to his/her research projects, and connect the earlier literature to his/her own results
   4. Acquire scientific knowledge
   5. Develop an awareness of continuous learning in relation with modern technology
   6. Demonstrating professional and ethical responsibility.
   7. Promote environmental consciousness and scientific research.

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
2. Adjust and apply the basic/principle biotechnological techniques (enzyme immobilization, biochemical techniques etc.) to the membrane processes.

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Define and manipulate advanced concepts of Environmental Engineering
   2. Formulate, construct and use methods and experiments at advanced level to solve environmental problems and interpret and synthesize their results
   3. Review the literature critically pertaining to his/her research projects, and connect the earlier literature to his/her own results
   4. Acquire scientific knowledge
   5. Work effectively in multi-disciplinary research teams
   6. Develop an awareness of continuous learning in relation with modern technology
   7. Find out new methods to improve his/her knowledge.
   8. Write progress reports clearly on the basis of published documents, thesis, etc
   9. Demonstrating professional and ethical responsibility.
   10. Promote environmental consciousness and scientific research.

   Method of assessment

   1. Homework assignment
3. Assemble the membrane processes, membrane contactors and biotechnological methods for designing catalytical membrane processes as an intensified process.

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Define and manipulate advanced concepts of Environmental Engineering
   2. Formulate, construct and use methods and experiments at advanced level to solve environmental problems and interpret and synthesize their results
   3. Demonstrate awareness for the social impacts of solutions to advanced problems
   4. Recognize, analyze and solve advanced environmental problems as a result of global developments
   5. Review the literature critically pertaining to his/her research projects, and connect the earlier literature to his/her own results
   6. Acquire scientific knowledge
   7. Design and conduct research projects independently
   8. Work effectively in multi-disciplinary research teams
   9. Develop an awareness of continuous learning in relation with modern technology
   10. Find out new methods to improve his/her knowledge.
   11. Effectively express his/her research ideas and findings both orally and in writing
   12. Demonstrating professional and ethical responsibility.
   13. Promote environmental consciousness and scientific research.

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
   2. Homework assignment
   3. Seminar/presentation

Contents
Week 1:	Introduction to catalytical membrane processes
Week 2:	General application and application in environmental engineering
Week 3:	Membrane contactors
Week 4:	Batch membrane reactors and mass equilibriums
Week 5:	Continious membrane reactors and mass equilibriums
Week 6:	Enzyme based membrane reactors
Week 7:	Microorganism based membrane reactors
Week 8:	Exam
Week 9:	Ultrafiltration and microfiltration
Week 10:	Flux models and membrane fouling
Week 11:	Presentations
Week 12:	The place of catalytical membrane processes among the intensified technologies
Week 13:	Designing intensified processes using creative approaches: Thinking out of the box?
Week 14:	The importance of intensified envionmental technologies for future
Week 15*:	Revised presentations and discussion
Week 16*:	Final exam
Textbooks and materials:
Recommended readings:	Biocatalytic Membrane Reactors: Applications In Biotechnology And The Pharmaceutical Industry, Enrico Drioli, Lidietta Giorno, Publication Date: November 27, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0748406549 | ISBN-13: 978-0748406548 | Edition: 1 Membrane Contactors: Fundamentals, Applications and Potentialities, Volume 11 (Membrane Science and Technology), E. Drioli, A. Criscuoli, E.Curcio,Publication Date: January 2, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0444522034 | ISBN-13: 978-0444522030 | Edition: 1
	* Between 15th and 16th weeks is there a free week for students to prepare for final exam.

Assessment
Method of assessment	Week number	Weight (%)
Mid-terms:	8	20
Other in-term studies:	11, 15	20
Project:		0
Homework:	1-10	20
Quiz:		0
Final exam:	16	40
	Total weight:	(%)

Workload
Activity	Duration (Hours per week)	Total number of weeks	Total hours in term
Courses (Face-to-face teaching):	3	14
Own studies outside class:	3	14
Practice, Recitation:	1	2
Homework:	6	10
Term project:	0	0
Term project presentation:	8	2
Quiz:	0	0
Own study for mid-term exam:	8	1
Mid-term:	2	1
Personal studies for final exam:	12	1
Final exam:	3	1
		Total workload:
		Total ECTS credits:	*
	* ECTS credit is calculated by dividing total workload by 25. (1 ECTS = 25 work hours)