Terminated in academic year 2012/2013

Waste Management II

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	546-0447/01
Abbreviation	OHII
Course title	Waste Management II
Credits	8
Coordinating department	Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator	prof. Ing. Vladimír Čablík, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Syllabus:

1. Thermic methods of waste disposal
Incineration of waste
Combustible waste
Combustion of fuels – Calculation of combustion processes
Facilities (furnaces) for thermic disposal of waste
Advantages and disadvantages of incineration
Utilization of waste heat
Waste incineration control
Emissions from the furnaces of industrial boilers
Pyrolysis of waste

2. Biological methods of waste processing
The course of composting
Basic conditions for composting
Vermicomposting
Compost types
Separation and composting of municipal biorefuse
Optimization of material composition of compost
Composting of waste and potential risk of microbial contamination
Biowaste disposal - possible application
Anaerobic degradation
Biodegradation

3. Waste dumping
Legal regulations for waste dumping
Controlled dumping policy
Processes occurring in the dumps
Types of waste possible to dump
Dump body (draining systems, drainage, insulating foil, etc.)
Composition of infiltration water
Dump gas (formation, collection, processing – utilization)
Methods of dump survey
Ecological action of TKO dumps and their reclamation
Waste water treatment sludge dump
Own technologies of sludge dumping

4. Physical-chemical methods of waste disposal
Types of hazardous chemical waste
Reworking of hazardous waste
Solidification of waste
Other disposal methods

Practice:

1. Calculation of incineration processes
2. Calculation of incineration processes
3. Field trip – incineration
4. Laboratory practice: Determination of combustion heat and calorific
capacity of the individual selected types of waste
5. Calculation of material composition of composts
6. Field trip – ENVI Brno
7. Practical application of legal regulations – Calculation of fees for waste
dumping
8. Simulation of selecting a suitable locality for hazardous waste dump based
on GIS
9. Field trip - dump
10. Laboratory practice: Determination of leach of unknown waste samples
11. Students’ seminar on the topic of Waste Economy
12. Students’ seminar on the topic of Waste Economy
13. Credit week

Literature

REDDY, P. Jayarama. Municipal Solid Waste Management [online]. CRC Press, 2011 [cit. 2019-06-20]. DOI: 10.1201/b11435. .
LOTTERMOSER, Bernd G. Mine wastes: characterization, treatment and environmental impacts. 3rd ed. New York: Springer, c2010. .
Hazardous industrial waste treatment / edited by Lawrence K. Wang ... [et al.]. - Boca Raton : CRC/Taylor & Francis, c2007 - ix, 516 s. : il. ISBN 978-0-8493-7574-3.
Industrial waste treatment / editor Nelson Leonard Nemerow. - Burlington : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, c2007 - xx, 561 s. : il. ISBN 978-0-12-372493-9.

Advised literature

RADA, Elena Cristina. Solid waste management: policy and planning for a sustainable society. Toronto: Apple Academic Press, [2016]. .
CHANG, Ni-Bin a Ana PIRES. Sustainable solid waste management: a systems engineering approach. Hoboken, New Jersey: IEEE Wiley, 2015. .
POPOV, V., H. ITOH a C. A. BREBBIA. Waste management and the environment VI. Boston: WIT Press, c2012. WIT transactions on ecology and the environment. .
REWAS 2008 : Global Symposium on Recycling, Waste, Treatment and Clean Technology : proceedings of the 2008 Global Symposium on ..., held October 12-15, 2008 in Cancun, Mexico [elektronický zdroj ]/ / edited by B. Mishra, C. Ludwig, and S. Das ; organized by TMS ... [et al.]. - Warrendale : Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, c2008. (CD-ROM).

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