Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences
School : Environmental Engineering
Prerequisit Course : No Pre-Requisit Courses
Credit Hours : 3.00
Offered For : Post Graduate
Course Description :
Life Cycle Assessment: Origins, principles and context- The development of life cycle assessment methods and applications- Life cycle assessment in practice- Life cycle assessment as decision support (A systemic critique)- Life cycle assessment and waste management- Life cycle assessment: Applications in the built environment- Will the well run dry? Developments in water resource planning and impact assessment- LCA and agriculture: challenges and prospects- Climate change responses: Carbon offsets, biofuels and the LCA contribution- Accelerating LCA uptake: Life Cycle
Management and ‗quick‘ LCA tools- Prospects for LCA development and practice in the quest for sustainable consumption
ENV511 - Water Resources Management
Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences
School : Environmental Engineering
Prerequisit Course : No Pre-Requisit Courses
Credit Hours : 3.00
Offered For : Post Graduate
Course Description :
Management concepts in water, sustainable water development, rationale of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM), evolution of IWRM, Integrated water resources experiences (community, local, watershed, regional scales), Strategies to achieve IWRM, Water Law and Policy, Capacity and consensus building, Different case of study of IWRM, Evaluation of IWRM and future challenges.
ENV512 - Transport Phenomena
Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences
School : Environmental Engineering
Prerequisit Course : No Pre-Requisit Courses
Credit Hours : 3.00
Offered For : Post Graduate
Course Description :
The course gives the understanding of the unified approach to solve problems involving transport of momentum, energy and mass in the research field of energy engineering. Analytical and Numerical tool for the given purposes will be practiced. General Molecular
Transport Equation for Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer. Shell Momentum
Balance and Velocity Profile in a Pipe. Molecular Diffusion in Liquids. Molecular Diffusion in Solids. Molecular Diffusion Plus Convection and Chemical Reaction. Boundary-Layer Flow. Conduction, Convection and Radiation Heat Transfer.
ENV601 - Seawater and Brackish Water Desalination
Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences
School : Environmental Engineering
Prerequisit Course : No Pre-Requisit Courses
Credit Hours : 3.00
Offered For : Post Graduate
Course Description :
Theoretical and practical aspects of seawater/brackish water desalination technologies, including thermalbased Multi-Stage Flash distillation (MSF), Multi-Effect Distillation (MED), Vapor
Compression VC and membrane-based Reverse Osmosis(RO), Nano
Filtration(NF), Electrodialysis/ Electrodialysis reversal ED/EDR desalination processes- process design and system performance- fouling, scaling (including bio-fouling) and cleaning; product water quality and post-treatment. Raw water intakes- Building new facilities- Upgrading existing facilities- Personnel requirements- Training requirements- Project management
ENV602 - Environmental Economics
Faculty : Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences
School : Environmental Engineering
Prerequisit Course : No Pre-Requisit Courses
Credit Hours : 3.00
Offered For : Post Graduate
Course Description :
Introduction (What Is Environmental Economics?, The Economy and the Environment)- Analytical Tools (Benefits and
Costs, Supply and Demand, Economic Efficiency and Markets, The Economics of
Environmental Quality)- Environmental Analysis (Frameworks of Analysis, BenefitCost Analysis: Benefits, Benefit-Cost Analysis: Costs)- Environmental Policy Analysis (Criteria for Evaluating Environmental Policies, Decentralized Policies:
Liability Laws, Property Rights, Voluntary Action, Command-and-Control Strategies: The Case of Standards, Incentive-Based Strategies: Emission Charges and Subsidies,Incentive-Based Strategies: Transferable Discharge Permits)- Environmental Policy in Egypt (Water Pollution Control Policy, Air Pollution Control
Policy, Policy on Toxic and Hazardous Substances, State and Local Environmental
Issues)- International Environmental Issues (Comparative Environmental Policies, Economic Development and the Environment, The Global Environment, International Environmental Agreements.
