Module manager: Valerie Dupont
Email: v.dupont@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as an Elective
This module will provide the opportunity to learn about and practice using the methods used to measure pollutants, as well as assess the abatement technologies commonly used to minimize industrial pollution.
On completion of this module, students should:
- be able to choose the right measurement technique for a given industrial source of air pollutants.
- perform conversions of raw measurements of air pollutants to emission data in units relevant to environmental legislation limits.
- understand the mechanisms of emission of the main air pollutants.
- understand the principles of the processes used for the control of air pollution from stationary industrial sources.
- be able to consider the designs associated with the implementation of the control techniques using engineering skills.
- be able to perform critical assessments of the advantages and limitations of different control techniques.
On successful completion of the module, students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
(1) Students will develop an awareness of the health and environmental impacts of a range of processes within the energy sector.
(2) Students will develop critical ability as to which measurement techniques are the most appropriate for the industrial air-polluting process under consideration.
(3) Students will develop critical ability as to which control techniques are the most appropriate for the industrial air-polluting process under consideration.
(4) Students will carry out small design exercises relevant to particular measurement and control techniques as the module progresses through the various air pollution control techniques.
(5) The design exercises include how to calculate the appropriate dimensions and process conditions of their control technique for a given air polluting process, and
(6) how to determine numerically their efficiency of control (SSLO6).
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills:
Many of the skills developed and practiced in this module are transferable (e.g. to the research project).
A) Critical thinking, creativity, research skills, time management, problem solving and analytical skills, IT skills, decision making, active learning, reflection.
B) Integrated problem solving
C) Presentation skills, time management
D) Information, data and media literacies, digital creation problem solving and innovation, digital learning
- Measurement techniques for industrial sources of air pollutants.
- Conversions of raw measurements of air pollutants to emission data in units relevant to environmental legislation limits.
- Mechanisms of emission of the main air pollutants.
- Principles of the processes used for the control of air pollution from stationary industrial sources.
- Designs associated with the implementation of the pollution control techniques.
- Critical assessment of the advantages and limitations of different control techniques.
Methods of assessment
The assessment details for this module will be provided at the start of the academic year
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 10 | 2 | 20 |
| Practical | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| Independent online learning hours | 20 | ||
| Private study hours | 100 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 30 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 150 | ||
Formative feedback is provided by module leader and demonstrator during the problem based solving sessions in computer based learning environment, frequency every week, work builds up from week 14 to week 23 in semester 2. Formative feedback is also provided during revision week based on students’ submissions of past exam papers worked out solutions, on ad-hoc basis in response to students’s submission of own work.
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 30/04/2025
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