DISCLOSING THE HIDDEN ENERGY OF BIOWASTE ? A LABORATORY FOR PROTOTYPING AN ANAEROBIC DIGESTER
(Project laboratory, Experimental laboratory)
- Language: ENGLISH
- Campus: CREMONA
- Enrollment: 21-12-2022to hour 12:00 on
20-02-2023 - Subject area: Tech and society
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- Teacher in charge
- TUROLLA ANDREA
- Credits
- 2
- Hours to attend
- 18
- Prerequisites
Basic knowledge and applicative skills of the involved disciplines (environmental engineering, process engineering, information technology and control engineering) | Basic knowledge of Arduino
- Max. number of students
- 16
- Selection Criteria
- Relevance and progress status of the study course
- Topics:
- biowaste valorization, process control, prototyping, resource recovery
- Tag
- Environment and land planning, Circular economy, Energy, Computer science, Engineering, Environmental and social sustainability, Food and Agriculture, Information technologies
Description of the initiative
The initiative proposes a laboratory project work aimed at developing a small pilot for the production of biogas from biowastes, including the assembling of a prototype equipped with all the relevant components as well as its operation, monitoring and control. The aim of the initiative is to stimulate the collaborative work of the participants so that the various skills in environmental engineering, process engineering, information technology and control engineering involved in energy recovery technology are applied and integrated. The teaching methodology is hinged on problem-based learning, having the prototyping as main operational tool. A multidisciplinary group of teachers guides the participants in the design and construction of (i) a reactor for anaerobic digestion, (ii) a real-time monitoring system capable of transmitting data to the cloud, (iii) a logic and modulated control system capable of guaranteeing a proper behaviour of the chemical process, (iv) a measuring system for produced biogas flowrate. The initiative is structured over a period of three months , alternating phases of work with all the participants and phases of group work. In the latter case, each working group is in charge of a specific task (designing, building and testing one of the components of the prototype). The entire initiative takes place at the Cremona Campus in the "Alberto Rozzi" laboratory. Two feedback moments between the groups of students are planned to verify the meeting of the activity goals, as well as to allow the sharing of the progresses among participants.
Duration
dal March 2023 a May 2023
Calendar
| # | Data | Durata | Argomento |
| 1 | Settimana 27 febbraio - 3 marzo | 3 | Presentazione struttura - Creazione gruppi - Consegna |
| 2 | Settimana 13 - 17 marzo | 3 | Lavoro di gruppo (con diversi docenti) |
| 3 | Settimana 27 - 31 marzo | 3 | Lavoro di gruppo (con diversi docenti) |
| 4 | Settimana 12 - 14 aprile | 3 | Restituzione intermedia |
| 5 | Settimana 8 - 12 maggio | 3 | Lavoro di gruppo (con diversi docenti) |
| 6 | Settimana 22 - 26 maggio | 3 | Restituzione finale |
Note
Participation in the entire course is required