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Identical coursesAims
* The student is familiar with the concepts of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis
* The student understands the different options to close the materials loop, including urban mining, enhanced landfill mining and zero-waste valorisation of industrial process residues.
* The student understands how chemistry can contribute to the exploitation of renewable energy resources and to energy storage.
* The student is familiar with the current tools to evaluate sustainability of a technological process like LCA analysis and know the advantages and pit-falls of these tools allowing a critical interpretation of the results.
Previous knowledge
The starting point of this course is the basic knowledge of analytical, physical and organic chemistry of a bachelor in sciences, engineering or bio-engineering.
Is included in these courses of study
- Master in de industriële wetenschappen: chemie (programma voor studenten gestart vóór 2023-2024) (Leuven) 60 ects.
- Master of Chemical Engineering Technology (programme for students started before 2023-2024) (Leuven) 60 ects.
- Courses for Exchange Students Faculty of Science (Leuven)
- Master in de chemie (Leuven) 120 ects.
- Master of Chemistry (Leuven) 120 ects.
- Educatieve master in de wetenschappen en technologie (Leuven) 120 ects.
Activities
3 ects. Sustainable Chemistry II: Lectures (B-KUL-G0D02a)
Content
1. Catalysis
- heterogeneous catalysis
- homogeneous catalysis
2. Sustainable metallurgy
- Critical raw materials
- Urban mining
- Enhanced landfill mining
- Zero-waste valorisation of industrial process residues
- Emission control in extractive metallurgy
- Product centric recycling
3. Clean energy materials
- Fuel cells
- Lithium ion batteries
- Redox flow batteries
- Supercapacitors
- Photovoltaics
- Hydrogen production and storage
4. Evaluation of ecological sustainability
- Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
- Materials flow analysis (MFA)
- Exergetic life cycle analysis
Course material
Course slides, selected papers and chapters from textbooks
Evaluation
Evaluation: Sustainable Chemistry II (B-KUL-G2G66b)
Explanation
The final point is the sum of the points for the individual questions.