Guia docente 2023_24 Facultade de Ciencias do Mar

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Wastewater treatment	Sources and classification of wastewaters. Physical, chemical and biological properties of wastewater. General operation of a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). Pretreatment and primary treatment. Secondary treatment: aerobic and anaerobic systems, suspended and fixed biomass systems. Tertiary or advanced treatment.
Desalination of seawater	Technologies of desalination: thermal processes and processes with membranes. Environmental effects.
Marine biotechnology	Definition and importance of biotechnology. General diagram of biotechnological production. Procedures to obtain biotechnological products from marine organisms (biofuels, pharmaceutical products , biorremediation of pollutants)
Chemical analysis of pollutants in the water column, sediments and marine organisms.	Sampling methods. Methods for sample preparation and determination in the water column. Extraction, purification and determination methods of pollutants in sediments and marine organisms.
Analysis of marine biotoxines.	Chemical structure of marine biotoxines. Toxicity of marine biotoxines. Sample preparation. Methods of separation and detection.
Control and guarantee of quality in the measures.	Systems of guarantee of quality. Validation of analytical methods. Intercomparison assays.