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Environmental Engineering Process Models

The document outlines a course on Environmental Engineering Process Modeling, taught by Dr. Hamid A. Al-Khashab, focusing on the principles of physical, chemical, and biological processes in environmental systems. Key topics include reaction kinetics, conservation of mass, reactor types, mass transfer, and groundwater hydraulics. The course utilizes the textbook 'Transport Modeling for Environmental Engineers and Scientists' by Mark M. Clark.

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Environmental Engineering Process Models

The document outlines a course on Environmental Engineering Process Modeling, taught by Dr. Hamid A. Al-Khashab, focusing on the principles of physical, chemical, and biological processes in environmental systems. Key topics include reaction kinetics, conservation of mass, reactor types, mass transfer, and groundwater hydraulics. The course utilizes the textbook 'Transport Modeling for Environmental Engineers and Scientists' by Mark M. Clark.

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Environmental Engineering Process Modeling

Instructor: [Link] A. Al-Khashab


E-Mail: hamidalkhashab@[Link]
Catalogue Description: Identify fundamental physical, chemical, and biological principles
involved in specific environmental processes, set up and solve appropriate mathematical
expressions for process models, and quantitatively describe the fate and transport of pollutants in
engineered and natural systems.
Textook: Clark, Mark M., Transport Modeling for Environmental Engineers and Scientists,
2 nd . Ed., (2009), John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY (ISBN: 0470260726).

Topics
• Introduction to Units, Stoichiometry, and Equilibrium
• Introducing Reaction Kinetics and Orders of Reactions
• Types of Reactions, Reactions Rates, and Arrhenius Law
• Conservation of Mass (systems, control volume, and differential element approaches)
• Concepts of Continua and Introducing Reactors (CMFR, CMBR, and PFR)
• CSTR Reactor
• CSTR and PFR, CSTR in Series
• Conversions in Reactors
• Residence Time Analysis
• Residence Time Analysis (contd.) and Reactor Performance
• Low Concentration Particle Suspension and Flow (drag force, Re, particle motion in
electric field)
• Perfect-mix Batch Sedimentation, Inertial Forces on Particles, and rotating flows
• Interaction of Small Charged Particles: Surfaces, Acquisition of Surfaces, Particle Shape,
Size, and Polydispersity, and Double Layer Theory
• Particle Collision and Fast Coagulation, Slow Coagulation.
• Adsorption, Partitioning, and Interfaces: Thermodynamics, Isotherms
• Equilibrium Partitioning, Partitioning if Flow Systems
• Mass Transfer: Concepts of Diffusion, and Convective Diffusion
• Mass Transfer (Contd.): Mass transfer coefficients and models, Interphase Mass Transport
and Resistance Models
• Filtration: Concept of Porosity, Dispersion in Porous Media, Dispersion Equations
• Fluid Mechanics of Environmental Transport (Navier Stoke’s Equation, buoyancy,
capillary forces, field-flow fractionation
• Groundwater Hydraulics and Filtration
• Groundwater Hydraulics and Filtration-2
• Environmental Process Model Examples

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