| Department of Agricultural Sciences | |||||||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year to MSc. 2 year | ||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | Outside schedule | ||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc The course may be taken at both MSc (post-graduate) and PhD level. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Examination | Continuous Assessment written examination and oral examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: The assessment of each participant will be based on: 1) a short essay on home country animal waste management and regulation of animal waste use, submitted before the course start, 2) a written report on the project carried out in the course and 3) an oral presentation of the project at the end of the course. Weight: Assessment will be based equally on all three parts. 7-point scale, internal examiner Dates of Exam: | ||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures, theoretical and practical exercises (laboratory), case-study work, excursion. Course is offered in collaboration with Univ. of Southern Denmark. NOTICE: Course location will be Dept. of Chemical, Bio- and Environmental Engineering, Odense. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Summer Course Week Structure: Outside schedule, Outside schedule, 2 week summer course, 12 - 24 Aug 2008 (both days included, at SDU, Odense) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | 280002 Environmental and Ecotechnology or similar. A BSc degree in Natural Res., Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Chem. Eng., Env. Eng. or similar. Basic knowledge of statistics and simple mathematical modeling, corresponding to "Env. & Ecotechnology" (KU-Life). Lab. experience is mandatory. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Restrictions | Course participation will be coordinated with SDU, total maximum number of students is 30. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||||||||
| After participating in the course students are expected to be able to: Knowledge: - Describe the biological, chemical and technological processes involved in bio-waste management - Identify mechanisms for bio-waste gas emission (ammonia and greenhouses gases) and overview possible control measures - Summarise various bio-waste management regulations and their possible effect on environmental impact Skills: - Carry out appropriate sampling, preparation and standard analysis of typical bio-waste materials - Conduct laboratory measurements to assess the effects of a given bio-waste treatment technology - Apply mass balance analysis of bio-waste element flows, including sensitivity analysis. - Apply mathematical models for whole system analysis of bio-waste management options Competences: - Analyse, discuss and develop concepts for environmentally friendly technologies and whole system solutions for organic bio-waste utilisation - Propose optimal utilisation of specific bio-waste materials, including selection of appropriate technologies for separation, energy conversion and recycling to land at the scale of the livestock farm | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||||||
| The objective of the course is to give advanced and applicable knowledge on the biological, chemical and technological aspects of bio-waste treatment. Students will gain a fundamental understanding of technologies for treatment of bio-waste, in particular animal manure, and obtain competences in analyzing and developing environmentally friendly technologies and whole system solutions for organic bio-waste utilisation (bio-energy, bio-fertilizer) and recycling to land (soil amendment). | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||||||
| The course is about the management and treatment of bio-waste, with a major focus on animal manures (slurry, solid farmyard manure, deep litter etc.) from livestock production. Specific themes of the course will be: - Separation of phosphorous and dry matter from bio-waste through application of mechanical separation with or without additions of coagulants (iron and aluminium salts) and flocculants (polymers) - Reactor technologies for biogas (methane) production from bio-waste materials - Technologies for the reduction of the emission of odour, ammonia and greenhouse gases from stored bio-waste - Bio-waste land application techniques to reduce ammonia emissions - Sampling and analysis of bio-waste - for the assessment of nutrient mass balances and losses to the environment - System analysis of bio-waste management options with the use of mathematical models Within each theme, students will work actively with case-studies and theoretical as well as practical exercises, incl. lab-work. The course gives important competences for jobs in private or public advisory service, environmental technology industry research and development, public administration and international organisations, as well as teaching and research at college and university level. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||||
| Before the course commences (at least two weeks before), each student must write and submit a short essay on home country animal waste management and regulation of animal waste use. The on-campus part of the course will in the first week consist primarily of lectures, case-based exercises and hands-on laboratory work in teams of 3-5 persons. Through these activities the participants will be introduced to the available environmental technologies for treating bio-waste, to systems analyses and mass balance modeling. In the second week, the primary teaching format will be group work, in which the students define and carry out a project to analyse a particular bio-waste treatment problem. The project may include experimental work (but not necessarily) and should include a system analysis of the identified problem and suggested solutions. Excursions to farms and environmental technology industries will also be included. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Stipulated in "Areas of Competence the Course Will Address" | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Handouts and compendium will be distributed at the start of the course. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lars Stoumann Jensen, lsj@life.ku.dk, Department of Agriculture and Ecology/Plant and Soil Science, Phone: 35333470 | |||||||||||||||||||
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