Engy-5140 Chemical and Nuclear Waste Processing

• University of Massachusetts Lowell, Spring 2019
• Dept. of Chemical Engineering (Nuclear Program)
• Prof. Valmor F. de Almeida ([email protected])
• Prof. Sukesh Aghara ([email protected])

The goal of this course is to present to graduate students and senior undergraduate students of nuclear chemical engineering (and allied academic programs), fundamentals of waste processing. Methods of inter-disciplinary physico-chemical transport phenomena will be covered as applied to hazardous waste to reduce, recycle, and dispose toxic materials in the general chemical and nuclear industry. To the extent possible, this course will cover modeling and simulation approaches used to process waste from a system level of theory. Other sub-scale theories will be covered on a needed basis.

Feedback and collaboration to improve this course are welcome through GitHub pull requests and issues or direct email.

This course uses Jupyter Notebooks in Python programming language. The content can be accessed in the following ways:

• Static HTML version of the notebooks will be displayed on the current browser if a notebook file listed in the code repository is clicked on. This will not allow for rendering mathematical formulae. Alternatively you can render the notebooks on NBViewer by clicking on the render|nbviewer badge above.
• Click on the Azure Notebooks|launch above to use the Azure Notebook service; this is practical since you can use your UMass Lowell credentials to login into the site and use the GitHub upload option to clone the repository in your account.
• Click on the launch/binder badge above to launch a Jupyter Notebook server for the course notebooks. There will be a delay for the Binder cloud server to build a Python (Anaconda) programming environment for you. However once it is done, it will start a Jupyter Notebook server on your web browser with all notebooks listed. Upon clicking on individual notebook files, you will access the live course notebooks.
• Use the green download button above on the right upper side of the page and download a ZIP archive to your local machine. Unzip the archive. Then use your own Jupyter Notebook server to navigate to the directory created by the unzip operation and upload the notebook files. In this case the files will not be updated and you will need to return to the repository for getting new files or updated versions of previously downloaded files.

Students will profit from either taking or self-studying a companion course that explains many of the computational aspects of using Jupyter notebooks, Python language programming, and methods in computational engineering.

Thanks in advance for inputs to improve this course.
Regards,
Profs. Valmor F. de Almeida and Sukesh Aghara.