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Terminated in academic year 2011/2012

Waste Management I

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0439/01
Abbreviation OHI
Course title Waste Management I
Credits 8
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Barbora Lyčková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

- Main objectives of waste management
- Related legislation
- Municipal solid waste and related issues:
- Collection and removal of waste
- Separation of waste - paper, glass, plastic, biowaste
- The issue of packaging
- Electro-waste
- Car wrecks
- Waste from the chemical industry
- Waste from the glass plant
- Agricultural waste
- Construction Waste
- Waste from mining and quarrying
- Energy management
- Waste from production and processing of metals

Literature

CHEREMISINOFF, Paul N. Handbook of solid waste management and waste minimization technologies. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, c2003. ISBN 0-7506-7507-1.
KALOGIROU, Efstratios N. Waste-to-energy technologies and global applications. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2018]. ISBN 978-1-138-03520-1 .
LAGREGA, Michael D., Phillip L. BUCKINGHAM a Jeffrey C EVANS. Hazardous waste management. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2001. McGraw-Hill series in water resources and environmental engineering. ISBN 0-07-039365-6.
WOODARD, Frank. Industrial waste treatment handbook. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, c2001. ISBN 0-7506-7317-6.

Advised literature

NEMEROW, Nelson Leonard a Franklin J AGARDY. Strategies of industrial and hazardous waste management. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1998. ISBN 0-471-29216-8.
AQUINO, John, ed. Waste age/Recycling times' recycling handbook. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers, c1995. ISBN 1-56670-068-X.
Wastes and Environment: 22.-23.10.2009, VŠB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic. Ostrava: VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, 2009. ISBN 978-80-248-2074-3. Sborníky konferencí. Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita Ostrava.
DepoTech 2014: Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallverwertung und Recycling, Deponietechnik und Altlasten. Leoben: Montanuniversität, c2014. ISBN 978-3-200-03797-7 . Sborníky konferencí. Montanuniversität Leoben.