ENV 6002
Physical and Chemical Principles in Environmental Engineering
Fall 2021 semester
Instructor: J.A. Cunningham (cunning@eng.usf.edu)
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Syllabus and course information
• Here is the syllabus for ENV 6002 for Fall 2021.
Homework assignments
• Homework #1 is due on Thursday, September 2. – extended to Tuesday, September 7.
• Homework #2 is due on Tuesday, September 14.
• Homework #3 is due on Tuesday, September 21.
• Homework #4 asks you to think about how chemicals partition between compartments in the environment, when those compartments are at equilibrium.
• Homework #5 deals with inter-phase mass transfer when environmental compartments are not at equilibrium.
• Homework #6 deals with equilibrium (reversible) chemical reactions.
• Homework #7 deals with the kinetics of irreversible chemical reactions.
• Homework #8 is problems from Chapter 9 of the text book by Weber & DiGiano. It is due on Thursday, November 4.
• Homework #9 deals with residence-time distributions of reactors (both real and ideal). It is due on Tuesday, November 16.
• Homework #10 is optional. It deals with transport by advection and dispersion, and solutions to the advection-dispersion equation. It is due on Tuesday, November 23.
Exams (incl. previous years)
• Here is the 2021 midterm exam along with my solution set to the midterm.
Group project
• Here are the overview instructions for the group project.
Links to illustrative figures or documents
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