Assessment System of Waste Materials

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	English
Code	546-0440/05
Abbreviation	HVO
Course title	Assessment System of Waste Materials
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator	doc. Dr. Ing. Radmila Kučerová

Subject syllabus

1. Legislative background for evaluation of waste properties - what regulations define
2. Waste categorization, hazardous waste, definitions
3. Authorization to evaluate dangerous properties - conditions, powers, validity, entitlements to authorized persons. Waste hazard exclusion certificate - requirements, validity, hazardous properties notice
4. Packaging and labeling of hazardous wastes, relation to other regulations
5. Sampling of waste (types, methods, applicable regulations), labeling, packaging, preservation, transport of sample, pre-treatment
6. Choice of procedures for the evaluation of properties and selection of properties to be assessed, depending on the intended use or disposal, waste management hierarchy, justification for waste characteristics and economy
7. Waste storage requirements depending on their properties in temporary storage
8. Waste analytics (laboratories, prices, choice of procedure, how to enter an analysis), laboratory accreditation procedure, instrument continuity, uncertainty in results
9. Definition of hazardous properties of waste and criteria for their evaluation
10. Evaluation of hazardous properties of HP4 - HP8, HP10, HP11, relation to other legislation
11. Evaluation of hazardous properties of HP1 - HP3
12. Evaluation of hazardous properties of HP9, HP12, HP13
13. Evaluation of hazardous properties of HP14 and HP15

Literature

CLARK, James H. Chemistry of waste minimization. London: Blackie Academic & Professional, 1995. ISBN 0-7514-0220-6.
PICHTEL, John. Waste management practices: municipal, hazardous, and industrial. Boca Raton: CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2005. ISBN 0-8493-3525-6.
TCHOBANOGLOUS, George a Frank KREITH. Handbook of solid waste management. Second edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, [2002]. McGraw-Hill handbooks. ISBN 0-07-135623-1.
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.

Advised literature

NEMEROW, Nelson Leonard, ed. Industrial waste treatment. Burlington: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, c2007. ISBN 978-0-12-372493-9.
WOODARD, Frank. Industrial waste treatment handbook. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, c2001. ISBN 0-7506-7317-6.
Industrial waste treatment handbook. 2nd ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007. .
WANG, Lawrence K., ed. Hazardous industrial waste treatment. Boca Raton: CRC/Taylor & Francis, c2007. ISBN 978-0-8493-7574-3.

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