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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Advanced
Former School/College
Pre-requisites
<144> credit points in any SCU unit
Unit aim
Focuses on chemical and engineering solutions for dealing with waste, now and in the future. Students will develop an understanding of the existing, new and emerging technologies available for resource recovery. From this understanding they will be challenged to develop innovative thinking to solve waste problems.
Unit content
Materials Science - primary definitions and broad character
Economics & Policy
Waste Categorisation
Chemistry and Engineering of Resource Recovery
- Reducing disorder
- Engineering of sorting
- Combustion
- Pyrolysis
- Bioconversion
- Chemical sorting
Current Methods and Innovations
- Household waste
- E-waste
- Transport waste
- Industrial waste
- Construction waste
- Mining waste
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | investigate chemical and engineering interactions to provide solutions to complex resource recovery problems | |||||||
| 2 | manage chemical and physical conditions to promote resource recovery for real world problems | |||||||
| 3 | demonstrate their command of the multidisciplinary nature of understanding resource recovery | |||||||
| 4 | demonstrate understanding of processes used to treat and contain different types of waste | |||||||
| 5 | understand the principles of resource recovery. | |||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
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investigate chemical and engineering interactions to provide solutions to complex resource recovery problems
- GA4:
- GA5:
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manage chemical and physical conditions to promote resource recovery for real world problems
- GA2:
- GA4:
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demonstrate their command of the multidisciplinary nature of understanding resource recovery
- GA2:
- GA4:
- GA5:
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demonstrate understanding of processes used to treat and contain different types of waste
- GA4:
- GA5:
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understand the principles of resource recovery.
- GA4:
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.