Course detail

Waste Treatment and Recycling

FSI-KODAcad. year: 2011/2012

Seminar focuses on disposal of solid municipal and industrial wastes via landfilling and composting as well as recycling of selected materials. Introductory lessons present current environmental legislation and relevant acts, which is followed by waste classification. Methods of wastes composting along with potential utilization of compost, waste landfilling and recultivation of closed down landfills are demonstrated. Much of the seminar deals with recycling of selected materials and description of individual recycling technologies. Main parts of the course are based on materials from University of Manchester and Institute for Science and Technology within TEMPUS project.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

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 valid environmental legislation providing for wastes and recycling processes along with processes of solid industrial waste disposal.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of chemistry, formation and disposal of wastes.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Award of credit is conditioned by active participation in all seminars, field trips and for completion of a paper. Exam is written with subsequent discussion.

Course curriculum

Lecture: 13 lessons, voluntary

Syllabus:

1. Czech environmental legislation, Act providing for wastes.
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. Composting sites, main compost types and its processing methods.
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. Duties of waste producers.
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 waste.
7. Biomass incineration.
8. Waste sorting.
9. Recycling of construction materials.
10. Prevention approach towards environment protection – cleaner production.
11. Field trip – hazardous waste landfill.
12. Field trip – waste incinerator.
13. Paper presentation.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Students will get acquainted with basic overview of potentials for 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

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Jurnik A.: Ekologické skládky. ALDA Olomouc 1999.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme M2I-P Master's

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

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hours, 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 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Andrea Tabasová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Discussion and seminars on actual lectures.