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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Technology of Waste Recycling

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 542-0478/03
Abbreviation TRO
Course title Technology of Waste Recycling
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Mining Engineering and Safety
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jiří Botula, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1.Waste management, basic concepts and legislation
2.System concept of waste recycling
3.Waste classification in terms of hazardous properties, composition and possibilities of recycling
4.Mechanical recycling technologies, characteristics and applications
5.Chemical recycling technologies, characteristics and applications
6. Thermal methods of waste treatment, characteristics and applications
7. Biotechnology and their use in waste recycling
8. Metal and metal-bearing wastes, characteristics and possibilities of recycling
9. Non-metallic wastes, characteristics and possibilities of recycling
10.Communal and similar wastes, characteristics and technologies of recycling
11.Wastes based on plastics and rubbers, characteristics and technology of recycling
12.Wastes from iron metallurgy, characteristics and technology of recycling
13.Wastes from mining and quarrying, characteristics and technologies
recycling
14.Radioactive waste, characteristics and possibilities of recycling

Literature

Williams, P.T., Waste Treatment and Disposal.John Wiley & Sons:2005,ISBN 0-470-84912-6 
LOTTERMOSER, Bernd G. Mine wastes: characterization, treatment and environmental impacts. 3rd ed. New York: Springer, 2010. ISBN 9783642124198 
VEIT, Marcelo,H.(ed)Electronic waste. New York: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015. ISBN 978-3-319-15713-9 .
RAO, Ramachandra,S. Resource Recovery and Recycling from Metallurgical Wastes. Oxford: Elsevier, 2006. ISBN 978-0-08-045131-2.

Advised literature

PISTOIA, G., J.-P WIAUX a S. P. WOLSKY. Used battery collection and recycling. New York: Elsevier Science, 2001. ISBN 0444505628 .
HURD, David J. Recycling of consumer dry cell batteries. Park Ridge, N.J., U.S.A.: Noyes Data, c1993. ISBN 9780815513254 .
HESTER, Ronald E. a Roy M. HARRISON, ed. Electronic waste management. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2009. Issues in environmental science and technology. ISBN 978-0-85404-112-1 .
PRASAD, M.N.V (ed).Electronic waste management and treatment technology. New York, NY: Elsevier, 2019. ISBN 9780128161906 .