“chemical engineering”

Assistant Professor Ilo Dreijers

Course description: 3Credit units; 48 hours (32 lectures, 16 practice)

Control forms: test
Course content:

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  Proactive management: ISO 14 000 and ISO 9 000 series. Latvian legistlation.
  
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  Process: planning, analysis, documentation, and implementation.
  
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  Operational control, emergency preparedness and response.
  
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  Evaluating and improving performance. Auditing.
  
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  Occupational health and safety management systems.
  
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  Problems: spill prevention reporting, and response, underground storage tanks, Water polution, air polution, hazardous waste management, CP/WM programs.
  

Literature:

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   I.Ritchie, W. Hayes. A Guide to the Implementation of the ISO 14 000 Series on Environmental Managrment. Prentice Hall,1997. 476 pg.
   
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   Course materials.
   

Mass Transfer processes and Equipment

ĶVT 535

Assistant Professor Jurijs Ozoliņš

Course description: 4Credit units; 64 hours (16 lectures, 48 laboratories)

Control forms: exam
Course content:

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  Process characterization. Phase equilibrium calculation. Idial and nonideal systems.
  
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  Mass transfer statics. Material balance, operation line.
  
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  Mass transfer kinetics. Molecular diffusion, Fick’s law, diferential equations. Convective mass transfer.
  
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  Mass transfer equation, driving force, mass transfer coefficients. NTU.
  
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  Basics of mass transfer equipment design.
  
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  Mass transfer for solid-liquid (gas) systems.
  

Literature:

1. 
   Koroļkovs N., Mihailovs I. Masas apmaiņa šķidrumu sorbcijā.- Rīga: Zvaigzne,1975.- 250 lpp.
   
2. 
   Шервуд Т. , Пигфорд Р., Уилкин Ч. Массопередача. Пер. с англ.^_ Москва: Химия, 1982.^_ 696 с.
   
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   Берд Р., Стюарт В., Лайтфуд Е. Явление переноса. Пер. с англ. ^_ Москва: Химия, 1974.^_ 688 с.
   
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   Рудобашта С. П. Массоперенос в системах с твердой фазой. ^_ Москва: Химия, 1980.^_ 248 с.
   
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   Промышленные тепломассообменные процессы и установки. Под ред. Бакластова А. М. ^_ Москва: Энергоатомиздат, 1986.^_ 328 с.
   
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   Кафаров В. В. Основы массопередачи. 3 ^_е изд. ^_ Москва: Высшая школа, 1979. ^_ 439 с.
   
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   Касаткин А. Г. Основные процессы и аппараты химической технологии.^_ Москва: Химия, 1973.^_ 752 с.
   
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   Ch.J. Geankoplis. Transport Processes and Unit Operations. Prentice Hall,1993. 921 pg.
   

Contaminated site assessment

KVT 571
Assistant Professor Juris Mālers

Course description: 4Credit units; 64 hours (32 lectures, 32 laboratories)

Control forms: exam
Course content:

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  The criteria of contaminated site assessment
  
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  Environmental site preassessment process
  
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  Subsurface assessment of contaminated site: geological and hidrogeological investigation, ecological information
  
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  Contaminant chemistry
  
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  Princples of migration and fate of contaminants
  
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  Determination of the extent and the area of soil and groundwater contamination: soil and groundwater sampling, analisies of soil and groundwater samples, level of watertable, determination of the direction and rate of groundwater movement
  
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  Assessment of subsurface remediation
  

Literature:

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   R. K. Jain, L. V. Urban, G. S. Stacey, H. E. Balbach. Environmental Assessment. McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993, 526 p.
   
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   Introductory Training Course Environmental Site Assessment. Vol. 1,2,3.- Emergencies Engineering Division, Environment Canada & Gartner Lee International Inc., 1995.
   
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   Subsurface Assessment Handbook for Contaminated Sites./ Report CCME EPC-NCSRP-48E, March 1994, 293 p.
   
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   Guidance Manual on Sampling, Analysis, and Data Management for Contaminated Sites. Vol. 1, Report CCME EPC-NCS62E, December 1993, 79 p.
   
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   ASTM Standards on Environmental Sampling. Sec. ed., 1997, 1010 p.
   
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   Environmental Site Assessment Interpretation Guidelines. Phase 1. / Jacques Whitford Environmental Ltd. , Canada, 1994.- 23 p.
   

Postgraduate studies
Colloid chemistry

ĶNF 672
Associated Professor Augusts Ruplis

Course description: 10 Credit units; 64 hours lectures

Control forms: Exam
Course content:

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  Dispersed systems generalities
  
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  Optical propertes of collodal systems
  
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  Molecular-kinetic properties of colloidal systems
  
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  Adsorption at the solid-gas interface
  
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  Adsorption at the soltion-gas interface
  
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  Adsorption at the solid-solution interface
  
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  Electrical properties of colloidal systems
  
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  Obtaining and purifying colloidal systems
  
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  Stability and coagulation of colloidal systems
  
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  Structur-mechanical properties of dispersed systems
  
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  Basic concepts on aerosols, emulsions, foams and colloidal surfactants
  

Kinetics of the chemical processes

ĶNF 673
Professor Sergejs Trusovs

Course description: 10Credit units; 32 hours lectures

Control forms: Test
Course content:

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  Formal kinetics. The Rate of Chemical Reactions. The Kinetics Classification of the Reactions. Reaction Order and Reaction Molecularity. Temperature Dependence of Reaction Rates.
  
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  Theorics of Kinetics. Arrhenius Theory. Activated Complex Theory.
  
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  Reactions in Solution.
  
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  Chain Reactions.
  
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  Photochemical Reactions.
  
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  Catalysis. The Classification of Catalytic Reactions. Homogeneous catalysis. Heterogeneous Catalysis. Kinetics of Heterogeneous Catalysis Reactions, Principles and Applications.
  
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  Theories of Heterogeneous Catalysis.
  

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  Autocatalysis
  

Literature:

8. 
   P.W. Atkins. Physical Chemistry, New York, W.H. Freeman and Company, 1986, 857p.
   
9. 
   U.Alksnis, Z.Kļaviņš, P.Kūka, A.Ruplis. Fizikālā un koloidālā ķīmija. Rīga, Zvaigzne, 1990, 425 lpp.
   
10. 
    А.Т.Стромберг, Д.П.Семченко. Физическая химия. М., Высшая школа, 1988, 496с.
    
11. 
    Е.Н.Еремин. Основы химической кинетики. М., Высшая школа, 1976, 374с.
    
12. 
    Н.М.Эмануель, Д.Т.Кнорре. Курс химической кинетики. М., Высшая школа, 1969, 400с.
    
13. 
    Е.Т.Денисов. Кинетика гомогенных химических реакций. М., Высшая школа, 1978, 367 с.
    
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    Walter J.Moore. Basic physical chemistry. P.H.I., Inc., 1983, 711p.
    

Electrical and Electrokinetic Phenomena of coll. Systems

ĶNF 674