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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Waste Management I

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0439/02
Abbreviation OHI
Course title Waste Management I
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Barbora Lyčková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. The principles of waste management and related legislation.
2. Wastes from power - characteristics, methods of disposal.
3. Solid municipal waste - collection, transport and disposal.
4. Solid municipal waste - paper, plastics and glass.
5. Solid municipal waste - biowaste.
6. Electric and electronic waste.
7. Wastes from the chemical industry.
8. Wastes from the manufacture and processing of metals.
9. Wastes from glass and ceramic industries.
10. Waste of energy.
11. Waste from mining and mineral processing.
12. Wastes from agriculture.
13. Waste from construction activities.
14. Radioactive waste.

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.