Program Presentation
The high pace of modern life results in an increase in producing waste, the disposal of which poses a serious problem for the environment. However, if combustion of the organic fraction of waste is made use of, not only can much of the waste be eliminated, but also the potential energy that waste contains may be recovered.
From a broader perspective, this technique can and should be framed within what could be termed as an optimal overall management of waste, a process that integrates a variety of solutions and occupies increasingly more space in national and local government agendas, as well as in businesses and various social organizations.
From a practical approach, the Environmental Engineering: Energy Recovery program raises this issue and objectively analyzes this solution. The systematized strategies of recovery, reuse and recycling, are prioritized over more corrective remedies such as incineration or discarding in controlled landfills.
Who is the programme for?
The Environmental Engineering: Energy Recovery program is especially designed to satisfy two different groups:
- People without a university degree who may want quality training in this field for personal gain or experience.
- Graduates with a university degree who, in addition to their current education would like a practical specialization in the Energy Recovery to increase job opportunities.
Diploma
Successful completion of the Program will enable you to be awarded the degree in Experto Universitario en INGENIERÍA AMBIENTAL: VALORIZACIÓN ENERGÉTICA.
After successfully completing the Program, the student will receive the degree as awarded by the University where they have enrolled.
Program Structure
The credit structure of the Environmental Engineering: Energy Assessment program is collected in the following table. Being a distance learning program and not subject to instructor-led classes, a specific beginning date is not set, and so the student can register at any time, provided that there are spaces available:
| CREDITSa | |
|---|---|
| Subject | 10 |
| TOTAL | 10 |
a. The equivalence in credits may vary according to the university that awards the degree.
Duration
The program in Environmental Engineering: Energy Assessment has 10 credits.
The duration of the program in Environmental Engineering: Energy Assessment varies between 6 and 9 months, depending on the student's dedication. In this period of time, the student must have successfully passed all the evaluated activities and approved the Final Project, if any.
Objectives
General Objectives:
- To apply energy assessment techniques to industrial waste, through proposals of modifying behavior and establishing guidelines to minimize waste as the result of industrial activity.
Specific objectives:
- To learn to choose the most appropriate channels for the recovery of energy that results from organic waste.
- To associate energy recovery technologies from non-fermentable organic waste: incineration, pyrolysis and gasification.
- To describe methanization as technology for the production of bio-gas from fermentable organic matter
- To outline a process of simultaneous production of heat and power (cogeneration).
Career Opportunities
Some of the career opportunities of Environmental Engineering: Energy Assessment are:
- Occupation as a technician/advisor for efficient energy, in a city council.
- Technical expertise in cogeneration optimization processes.
- Occupation in incinerators and other thermal treatment plants.
- Teaching.
Study Plan
The Environmental Engineering: Energy Recovery program is comprised of one topic with five chapters, including two appendices and practical case studies related to this field.
The course allows the student to learn and comprehend, first place, the theoretical, conceptual and historical principles involved in waste energy management, and second, its organizational, social, and technological implications.
The objective is for the student to acquire a complete perspective of waste management from the point of view of energy recovery, through related multidisciplinary topics.
The chapters that comprise the subject are shown in the following table:
| Environmental Engineering: Energy Recovery | ||
|---|---|---|
| # | SUBJECTS | |
| 1 | Fuel composition and energy capacity | |
| 2 | Combustion and thermal destruction of waste | |
| 3 | MSW energy assessment: incineration | |
| 4 | Other energy conversion processes of a wastes’ organic fraction | |
| 5 | Cogeneration | |
| 6 | Case Studies | |
| 7 | Appendix I - Contaminated atmospheric effluents purification systems | |
| 8 | Appendix II - Present and future global energy frameworks | |
Management
- Dr. Eduardo García Villena. Director of the Environmental Area in the International Ibero-american University (UNINI)
FUNIBER Training Scholarships
The Ibero-american University Foundation (FUNIBER) periodically delivers an economic baseline with extraordinary character for scholarships in FUNIBER Training.
To apply for it, you only need to send your application for a scholarship on the website’s main page with the required data, and the evaluation committee will examine the suitability of your candidature to be granted economic aid, in the form of a scholarship in FUNIBER Training.