İZMİR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

GRADUATE SCHOOL

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

SCIENTIFIC PREPARATION PROGRAM

Students, who do not have a BSc degree in Environmental Engineering, accepted to Environmental Engineering M.Sc. or Environmental Science and Engineering PhD Programs are to take a total of six courses listed below from Environmental Engineering BSc program. If a similar course has already been taken, any of the six courses may be waived by the department, if a student petitions and provides course content.

Core Courses

Code	Courses	Credit	ECTS
ENV 201	Environmental Chemistry	(3-0)3	5
ENV 224	Principles of Environmental Engineering Processes	(3-0)3	5
ENV 314	Transport Processes	(3-0)3	5
ENV 319	Fundamentals of Biological Processes	(3-0)3	3

 

Group 1. – One of the two courses.

Code	Courses	Credit	ECTS
ENV 217	Fluid Mechanics	(3-0)3	5
ENV 311	Unit Operations and Processes of Water Treatment	(3-2)4	5

 

Grup 2. – One of the two courses.

Code	Courses	Credit	ECTS
ENV 218	Hydraulics	(3-0)3	5
ENV 312	Unit Operations and Processes of Wastewater Treatment	(3-2)4	5

 

İZMİR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

GRADUATE SCHOOL

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

SCIENTIFIC PREPARATION PROGRAM

 

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

 

ENV201 ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY (3+0)

Fundamental concepts, units and parameters of environmental chemistry; acid/base reactions; titrations ad buffers; organic pollution and related parameters; gas/liquid equilibrium reactions; metal chemistry in aqueous solutions.

 

ENV217 FLUID MECHANICS (3+0)

Dimensions, units, and physical properties of fluids. Hydrostatics, forces on plane and curved surfaces, buoyancy, hydrostatics in moving and rotating containers. Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions of fluid flow, System and control volume approach, Reynolds transport theorem, principles of conservation of mass, momentum and energy, Bernoulli equation. Dimensional analysis, Buckingam pi theorem, similitude, and modeling.

 

ENV218 HYDRAULICS (3+0)

Flow in pipes, laminar and turbulent flows. Local and continuous energy losses. Hydraulic calculations in pipe flow. Flow in open channels. Uniform and non-uniform flows. Water surface profiles. Local changes in water surface. Channel control structures and flowrate measurement. Model theory.

 

ENV224 PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING PROCESSES (3+0)

Introduction to environmental engineering calculations; analysis of pollution control processes: chemical and biochemical kinetics, mass balances, reactor analysis, energy balances, mass-transport processes with particular emphasis on examples of environmental pollution control processes.

 

ENV311 UNIT OPERATIONS AND PROCESSES OF WATER TREATMENT (3+2)

Mechanical and chemical unit operations of water treatment: screening, grit removal, sedimentation, aeration, coagulation, flocculation, membrane separation, disinfection, ion exchange and softening.

 

ENV312 UNIT OPERATIONS AND PROCESSES OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT (3+2)

Biological and chemical unit operations of wastewater treatment: screening, grit remoal, sedimentation, flotation, aeration. Processes utilized for secondary and tertiary treatment of wastewater: attached or suspended growth based aerobic/anaerobic biological systems. Advanced wastewater treatments systems. Sludge digestion processes.

 

ENV314 TRANSPORT PROCESSES (3+0)

Mass transport processes in the environment, mass conservation. Momentum transport, momentum conservation. Heat Transfer. Mass Transfer and transformation processes. Diffusive, convective and dispersive transport, boundary layer mass transfer, interphase mass transfer. Development of governing equations for transport, transfer and transformation processes.

 

ENV319 FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES (3+0)

Foundation of microbial kinetics pertaining to wastewater treatment with a particular focus on those that describe batch, fed-batch, and continuous growth under aerobic and anaerobic conditions as well as constant stirred tank and plug flow reactors, activated sludge, nitrification and denitrification systems.