Air and flue gas treatment, Environmental technology I

Education facts

Code: EMGA21

The course includes lectures, dimension design projects, and practical exercises and laboratory sessions where students practise measuring methodology and laboratory safety as well as measurement methods used in environmental analysis. The course covers the following: - Environmental chemistry as a practical tool. Correlations between different environmental problems. Using reaction rates and equilibrium constants in calculations in order to assess the significance of different reaction pathways and to calculate substance concentrations. Equilibrium between gases and liquids (Henry's law). - Stratospheric ozone - formation and degradation, natural and created catalysts, how ozone holes are formed. - Tropospheric ozone - photochemical smog, the interaction of nitrogen oxides, ozone, hydrocarbons, and light, primary and secondary pollutions. - Acidification - how nitrogen oxides and sulphur oxides react into acidifying substances, alkalinity, buffer systems. - Climate change - greenhouse gases and their absorption of heat radiation, the carbonate system, aerosols, weighting of greenhouse gases. - Processing of measurement data - propagation of error, confidence interval, measurement data analysis, uncertainty assessment.

Entry requirements

General admission requirements and registered for a basic course in Environmental Studies, 7.5 ECTS credits, plus upper secondary level Mathematics 3c/Mathematics D, Physics 2, and Chemistry 1, or equivalent

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Air and flue gas treatment, Environmental technology I

  Karlstad University

  Karlstad

  Start date: 9 November 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %