Course detail
Waste Management and Engineering
FCH-MA_ENG4Acad. year: 2022/2023
Definition of the waste-related issues, legislation and management, sources of the municipal and industrial waste, types of wastes and their use, recycling, disposal, fundamental waste technologies – biological, thermal, landfil and solidifaction, alternative ways of waste treatment, technologies used for waste treatment.
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Offered to foreign students
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The e-learning system (LMS Moodle) is available to students.
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Course curriculum
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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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
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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Elearning
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Guided consultation in combined form of studies
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Elearning