COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOIL CONTAMINATION AND REMEDIATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ENV 5042 SOIL CONTAMINATION AND REMEDIATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GÖRKEM AKINCI

Offered to

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Environmental Engineering
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY

Course Objective

The course aims to give the fundamentals of contaminated soil remediation as well as the behavior of the contaminants in the soil matrix.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Knows the general major physical, chemical, and biological properties of the soils
2   Knows the fundamental processes in the soil that define the behavior, fate and transport of contaminants
3   Can list the frequently detected soil contaminants and be aware of the environmental effects of soil contaminants
4   Can tell the major physical, chemical, and biological soil remediation/treatment techniques and knows how to combine them
5   Can define the partitioning pathways of a contaminant between the soil, water and air phases
6   Knows the importance of the status of the contaminants on the treatability of the soil, such as contamination age, solubility of the contaminant, etc.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Physical, chemical and biological properties of the soils
2 Frequently detected soil contaminants and their properties
3 Behaviors of a contaminant in soil, the factors and processes determining the contaminant transport in soil, the faith of a pollutant plume
4 In-situ and Ex-situ soil remediation, Physical soil remediation techniques
5 Chemical soil remediation
6 Bioremediation and its principals
7 Selection of term projects
8 How to response to a contaminated site, the details and requirements of an onsite investigation
9 Phase partitioning of a contaminant, the factors and the features determining the phase partitioning
10 Screening of novel soil remediation methods, comparison of recent studies
11 Standard test methods for determination of major soil properties and pollutants
12 National and international regulations on soil contamination, soil standards
13 Term project presentation
14 Term project presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Eweis, J., Ergas, S., Chang, D., Schroder, E.D. (1997) Bioremediation principals, UC Davis Publications, USA

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The fundamentals of the soil contamination and contaminant behavior in soil matrix are instructed in the first weeks of the course as well as the conventional soil remediation techniques. The partitioning of the contaminant ibetween the soil-water and soil-air interfaces are also given by the instructor and novel soil remediation techniques or modifications of the conventional methods are discussed in the class.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRJ PROJECT
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRJ * 0.70 + FIN * 0.30
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) PRJ * 0.70 + RST * 0.30


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Class participation is required

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylul University, Department of Environmental Engineering, 35160 Buca Izmir
+ 232 301 7132

Office Hours

2 hours before or after the course

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Reading 8 5 40
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 8 8
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 155

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.11
LO.21
LO.311
LO.411111
LO.51111
LO.6111

CONTACT INFORMATION
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Cumhuriyet Bulvarı No: 144 35210 Alsancak / İZMİR
Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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