Cleaner Production and Industrial Environmental Technology

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Choose semester and course offering to see current information and more about the course, such as course syllabus, study period, and application information. Please note: all information from the Course syllabus is available on this page in an accessible format. The overall aim of the course is to provide theoretical and applied knowledge and understanding of strategies and technologies for a cleaner industrial production. - Define Cleaner Production and describe scope and barriers to Cleaner Production. - Propose and motivate Cleaner Production strategies and actions for different industrial environmental problems, based on a system perspective. - Describe and explain how to use different unit operations as process integrated or external cleaning stages in industrial production in order to minimize pollutions of air and water and the production of waste. - On a fundamental level describe different industrial environmental technologies to minimize pollution of air and water and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. - Propose and motivate the choice of different environmental technical solutions for minimizing the pollution of air and water from industry and the resource utilisation and waste production. At least 180 credits of university studies and English B/6 according to the Swedish upper secondary school system Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability. The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.