English

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Of all faculties

Review about development, reprocessing, recycling and disposal of wastes. Graduate can take position either as a manager or an operation engineer in a company dealing with waste treatment.

Basics of general chemistry.

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The course uses teaching methods in the form of lecture – 2 hours/week and seminars – 3 hours/week.
The e-learning system (LMS Moodle) is available to students.

oral examination, to proceed requires at least 50% of correct answers.

1) Introduction and history of waste management, legislation
2) Waste from mining, metallurgy waste
3) Industrial waste, the most common chemical technologies, pharmaceutical waste, paper mill waste
4) Polymeric waste
5) Food industry and agriculture waste, other types of waste
6) Municipal waste
7) Fundamental water treatment technologies, composting, vermicomposting
8) Thermal methods: incineration, pyrolysis, gasification and other technologies
9) Landfilling, biogas production
10) Recycling
11) Alternative waste treatment technology
12) Capturing of carbon dioxides strategies
13) Devices used in waste treatment technologies, waste separation

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The students obtain information on collecting, separation, transport and waste disposal. Students will learn the major sources and types of industrial, agriculture and household waste and conventional and alternative technologies for waste disposal.

presence on seminars is compulsory

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Bahadori A., Smith S.T. Dictionary of Environmental Engineering and Wastewater Treatment. Springer. 2016 (EN)
Bender H. F., Eisenbarth P.: Hazardous Chemicals. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 2007. (EN)
Scheirs H. F., Kaminsky W.: Feedstock Recycling and Pyrolysis of Waste Plastics. Wiley, New York 2006. (EN)

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