Course detail
Waste Management
FAST-BP057Acad. year: 2018/2019
The subject covers the filed of environmental engineering and environmental protection, especially protection against leakage of hazardous substances from both municipal and industrial wastes.
Attention is focused on the concept of Waste Management in the Czech Republic. As for technical methods of waste disposal, the subject is oriented on composting and landfilling waste according the current Czech legislation.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Prerequisites
Water chemistry
Soil mechanics
Co-requisites
Rehabilitation of Water Networks
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Work in the LMS Moodle.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Mandatory attendance on subject.
Written and oral exam.
Course curriculum
2. Conceptual framework of waste management in the Czech Republic: state-of-the-art and development trends, waste management plans.
3. Packaging, distribution and function.
4. Waste sorting, recycling bins.
5. Landfilling – legislation, types of landfills, technical maintenance, choosing of suitable site, geological and hydrological data, technical solution.
6. Landfill water management, percolation water treatment.
7. Recultivation of landfills.
8. Composting, distribution of composting, composting of biological processes.
9. Thermic methods of waste disposal - burning, gasification, pyrolysis.
10. Field trip to Brno garbage-disposal plant.
11. Garbage-disposal plants, construction works, technological equipment.
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Conceptual framework of waste management in the Czech Republic: state-of-the-art and development trends, waste management plans.
3. Packaging, distribution and function.
4. Waste sorting, recycling bins.
5. Landfilling – legislation, types of landfills, technical maintenance, choosing of suitable site, geological and hydrological data, technical solution.
6. Landfill water management, percolation water treatment.
7. Recultivation of landfills.
8. Composting, distribution of composting, composting of biological processes.
9. Thermic methods of waste disposal - burning, gasification, pyrolysis.
10. Field trip to Brno garbage-disposal plant.
11. Garbage-disposal plants, construction works, technological equipment.
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Determination of the amount of municipal and biological waste, volumetric design of equipment for waste disposal.
3. Life Cycle Assessment - Environmental managament.
4. Calculation of stability municipal waste landfill Peterson method.
5. The situation landfill + cross sections 1:1000
6. The situation landfill reclamation 1:1000.
7. Proposal size composting facilities, composting machine security.
8. Composting Situation 1: 1000.
9. Technical report.
10. Field trip to Brno garbage-disposal plant.
11. Credit.