Environmental Colloid Engineering

Course Detail

Degree: Bachelor
Standard Academic Year: 3, 4
Course delivery methods: face-to-face
Subject: Biological sciences, Agriculture & related subjects, Physical sciences
Program
School: School of Life and Environmental Sciences
Department: College of Agro-Biological Resource Sciences
Campus: Tsukuba Campus
Classroom: 2C410
Course Offering Year: 2023-2024
Course Offering Month: July - August
Weekday and Period: Mon4,Tue6
Capacity
Credits: 1.0
Language: English
Course Number: EG60161

Environmental Colloid Engineering University of Tsukuba

Course Overview

Applications of colloid and interface science to environmental issue and its basis are given. Focus will be placed on the floccuation which is important to control soil and water quality. Current topics related to microbiology and ecosystem will be lectured.

Learning Achievement

Students will be to read the article relation to colloid and interface science.

Competence

Master systematic analysis in colloid ans interface enginnering

Course prerequisites

Students are preferable to have taken " Elementary Applied Thermodynamics"
Soil and Water Bio-Engineering

Grading Philosophy

Report and assignment (100%)

Course schedule

2021 Class schedule
Date: July26, 27
Colloid and interface in relation to bio-resources
Theory of Brownian motion revisited
Electrical double layer
Langmuir theory of adsorption
What is a floc
Sedimentation of flocculated material
Rete theory of Brownian coagulation
Rete theory of shear coagulation, Turbulent coagulation
Colloid and interface in soil and water
TBA

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