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CHBE370 Course Syllabus

This document outlines the syllabus for the CHBE 370 Fundamentals of Sustainable Engineering course. The course is a 3-credit introduction to sustainable practices for chemical and biological engineers, covering topics like pollution prevention, life cycle assessment, and environmental impact analysis. It will include lectures, tutorials, assignments, quizzes and a term paper project. Assessment will be based on assignments, a term paper proposal, presentation and paper, and two quizzes. The course materials will be provided online and assignments must be submitted by the posted deadlines.

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CHBE370 Course Syllabus

This document outlines the syllabus for the CHBE 370 Fundamentals of Sustainable Engineering course. The course is a 3-credit introduction to sustainable practices for chemical and biological engineers, covering topics like pollution prevention, life cycle assessment, and environmental impact analysis. It will include lectures, tutorials, assignments, quizzes and a term paper project. Assessment will be based on assignments, a term paper proposal, presentation and paper, and two quizzes. The course materials will be provided online and assignments must be submitted by the posted deadlines.

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CHBE 370 Course Syllabus

Course Title and Description


• Course title: Fundamentals of sustainable engineering
• Course description: Introduction to sustainable practice for Chemical and Biological Engineers.
Pollution prevention, cleaner production, green chemistry and engineering, and sustainable
design; environmental impact assessment including life-cycle assessment, total cost analysis and
environmental systems analysis; applications in chemical and biological process industries.
• Any pre- or co-requisites: CHBE241, CHBE244

Contact Information
• Course instructor: X. Tony Bi
• Class room: CHBE 1.01
• Contact: Room CHBE 4.11, Canvas CHBE370 email, or email: [email protected],
• Office hour: Wednesday 4:00 to 5:00 pm (CHBE411 in-person)
• Teaching Assistants: Alexandre Babin ([email protected]); Gregory Li ([email protected]);
Gholami Banadkoki Omid ([email protected]) (in-person)
• I will reply to your questions sent to my Canvas mailbox within 24 hours. All course materials
and information will be posted on the Canvas course website.

Course Structure
• The regular lectures and tutorials will be given in-person in classroom CHBE1.01. All course
materials (lecture ppt files and reading materials) will be available at the Canvas course website.
Assignments will be submitted online to the course website. Quizzes will take place in-person.

Course Learning Outcomes


• Define sustainability and sustainable engineering.
• Apply systems thinking to problem definition and assessment of proposed solutions.
• Discuss the role of environmental regulations and policies in advancing sustainable engineering
practice.
• Develop a conceptual understanding of pollution control versus pollution prevention technologies
• Apply Life Cycle Analysis to assess environmental and health impacts associated with all stages
of a product’s life.
• Apply environmental cost analysis to assess the economic feasibility of green and sustainable
processes/products/programs
• Apply sustainability concepts to decision making in chemical and biological process design

Course Content
1. Principles of sustainability and sustainable engineering (weeks 1-2)
• Introduction to principles of sustainability, green chemistry, green engineering,
sustainable engineering, pollution prevention, end-of-pipe treatment and systems
thinking
• Tutorial 1: Term paper guidelines

2. Environmental policies, laws and regulations (week 3)


• Regional, national and global Air, water, soil and climate policies, laws and
regulations
Assignment #1

3. Life-cycle assessment (LCA) (weeks 4-5)


• Methodologies of life-cycle assessment
• Applications of life-cycle assessment
• Audit and inventories
Process emissions, Fugitive emissions, Secondary emissions
Tutorial 2: Case study 1: Life-cycle assessment of alternate fuel engine vehicles.

Term paper proposal due


Quiz #1 (Mid October)

4. Environmental impacts and health risks (weeks 6-7)


• Environmental impacts assessments
• Health risk assessments
• Integrated impact assessments
Tutorial 3: Case study 2: Carbon footprint of British Columbia wood pellets
Assignment #2.

5. Environmental cost and total cost analysis (weeks 8-9)


• Environmental cost, external cost and total cost
• Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis (environmental fees, penalties, carbon
taxes, clean incentives, green subsidies)
Tutorial 4: Case study 3: Cost-benefit and cost effectiveness analyses of BC AirCare
program and residential heating.
Assignment #3

6. Sustainability indicators for processes/products evaluation (weeks 9-10)


• Sustainability indicators and ranking criteria
• Evaluation and ranking methods
 Multi-objective (environmental-economic-social) optimization
 Pareto analysis, multiple perspectives
 stakeholder consideration
Tutorial 5: Case study 4: Evaluation and ranking of biomass residues to biofuels
pathways in British Columbia
Assignment #4

7. Sustainable engineering in practice (weeks 11-12)


• Pollution prevention for unit operations
• Pollution prevention for industrial processes and products
 Sustainable design of processes
 Process water use/reuse
 Fugitive emissions
 Zero discharge
• Pollution prevention for industrial complexes and communities
 Industrial symbiosis
 Circular economy
 Water-food-energy nexus
Tutorial 6: Case study 5: A multi-scale approach for regional animal waste
management

Quiz #2 (Mid November)

8. Summary (week 12)

Term paper presentations (recorded videos) and peer review


Term paper submission

Course Activities and Assessment


• Course schedule: 3 credit course, two 1.5-hour lectures per week plus one 2-hour
tutorial every other week, starting week 2.
• Course activities:
1. Lectures (Tuesday and Thursday, 8:00 to 9:30 am) covering course materials
2. Six tutorials (Every other Wednesday, 2 to 4 pm, starting September 14) covering 5
case studies and term paper instructions and guidelines
3. One term paper project for practicing how to apply the learned principles and
methodologies to assess the sustainability of a product, a technology or a program.
• Assessments:
1. 20% for 4 assignments,
2. 10% for term project proposal,
3. 10% for term project presentation,
4. 30% for term paper,
5. 30% for two quizzes
• Assignment deadlines: completed assignments must be submitted online to the Canvas
course website before 4:30 pm on the date they are due. Late assignments are
penalized 10% of the maximum possible mark for each day or part day they are
overdue. Assignments submitted after seven calendar days beyond the due date will not
be marked and will automatically receive a score of 0%. Each student can request for
one lifeline to extend the submission of one assignment for up to 4 days.

Required Materials
• Bakshi, B.R. Sustainable Engineering: principles and practice. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge, UK. 2019. (recommended)
• Gerardo Ruiz Mercado Heriberto Cabezas, Sustainability in the Design, Synthesis and
Analysis of Chemical Engineering Processes. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2016. (Accessible
from UBC)
• Allen, D.T. and D.R. Shonnard, Sustainable Engineering: concepts, design and case
studies. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. 2012.
• Wimmer, W. and Kauffman, Joanne. Handbook of Sustainable Engineering. First edition,
Springer Publishing, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-4020-8939-8
• Azapagic, A., S. Perdan and R. Clift, Sustainable Development in Practice: case studies
for engineers and scientists, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 2004.
• Baumann, H. and A.-M. Tillman, The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to LCA, Studentlitteratur, Lund,
2004.
• Graedel, T. E., B.R. Allenby, Industrial Ecology, Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, 2002.

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Use of Integrity Statements
You may be asked to agree to an academic integrity statement as part of testing or other assessment
activities. As a student in a professional program, doing your part to adhere to course rules and
upholding the academic integrity of your educational experience is in your best interest. Every effort
will be made to ensure that assessment is fair for all students in the course. You can do your part by
following the rules set out by your course instructors, and seeking assistance or clarification if you have
any questions.

University Policies
UBC provides resources to support student learning and to maintain healthy lifestyles but recognizes
that sometimes crises arise and so there are additional resources to access including those for survivors
of sexual violence. UBC values respect for the person and ideas of all members of the academic
community. Harassment and discrimination are not tolerated nor is suppression of academic freedom.
UBC provides appropriate accommodation for students with disabilities and for religious, spiritual and
cultural observances. UBC values academic honesty and students are expected to acknowledge the ideas
generated by others and to uphold the highest academic standards in all of their actions. Details of the
policies and how to access support are available here.

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