Course detail

Waste Treatment and Recycling

FSI-KODAcad. year: 2013/2014

The course is focused on particular methods of elimination of municipal and industrial wastes by landfilling, incineration and above all by the recycling process. In the opening part of the course the students are introduced to current legislation on the environment protection, wastes and other relevant acts and regulations. The division of the wastes itself follows. In the next part the students are introduced to the methods of combustion, landfilling and to restoration of closed landfills. A great part of the course is dedicated to recycling of chosen materials and description of particular recycling technologies.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Andrea Tabasová, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Process Engineering (ÚPI)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Comprehension of current environmental legislation regarding wastes and recycling processes along with processes of solid industrial waste disposal.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of formation and disposal of wastes.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

To gain a classified credit the students have to write a semester paper. The students have to prove they obtained relevant knowledge at the end of the semester.

Course curriculum

Lecture: 13 lessons, voluntary

Syllabus:

1. Czech environmental legislation, Waste Act.
2. Types of industrial and municipal waste.
3. Types of landfills. Risk factors for solid municipal waste landfills. Isolation of landfills against pollutants leaks.
4. Landfill gas, its composition. Utilization and disposal of landfill gas.
5. Incineration of wastes. Types of incineration equipment.
6. Recultivation of solid municipal waste landfills.
7. Recycling of plastics.
8. Recycling of glass.
9. Recycling of paper.
10. Recycling of textiles.
11. Recycling of metal scraps.
12. Recycling of organic waste.
13. Recycling of sludge from waste water treatment plants.

Seminar: 13 lessons, compulsory

Syllabus:

1. Assignment of papers.
2. Plans of waste management.
3. Identification list of hazardous waste.
4. Waste catalogue.
5. Composting, waste coming from green maintenance.
6. Thermal utilization of wastes.
7. Biomass incineration.
8. Waste sorting.
9. Recycling of construction materials.
10. Preventive approach towards environment protection – cleaner production.
11. Excursion – A.S.A., spol. s r.o.
12. Recyclation of metals.
13. Paper presentations.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Students will get acquainted with basic overview of possibilities of solid municipal and industrial wastes treatment along with advantages and disadvantages of individual processes concerning environmental impact. They will also get acquainted with processes in landfills and risk factors of solid waste landfilling and recycling methods of selected components.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Participation in the seminars is regularly checked. Notes from missed classes have to be completed and handed in for a teacher’s check-up.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Weiner, Ruth F.: Environmental engineering. Elsvier. 2003. ISBN: 0750672943

Recommended reading

Jurnik A.: Ekologické skládky. ALDA Olomouc 1999.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N2301-2 Master's

    branch M-PRI , 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Andrea Tabasová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1.Present situation in environmental protection in Czech Republic.
2.Legislative frames CR to the protection of environment and nature
3.State authority in the protection of environment.
4.Waste disposal act 185/2001.
5.Types of industrial wastes.
6.Types of domestic wastes.
7.Dangeres conditions of waste disposal sites.
8.Lining against leak of hazardous materies.
9.Water balance of waste disposal sites and leacheat disposal
10.Landfill gas, condition and disposal.
11.Possibility of utilisation of waste gas.
12.Composting of organic solid wastes.
13.Rekultivation of waste disposal sites.

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Andrea Tabasová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Discussion and seminars on actual lectures.