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Terminated in academic year 2015/2016

Metallurgical production and environment

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 618-0421/02
Abbreviation MVaŽP
Course title Metallurgical production and environment
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Metallurgy and Foundry
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Pavlína Pustějovská, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

LECTURES

1. Basic concepts and legislation on the environment
-Emissions, emission limits, emission factor, emission level.
-Mass concentration, mass flow, the greenhouse effect.
-Principles of environmental responsibilities for environmental protection.
-Legislation : Laws: 17/1992., 244/1992, Government Regulation: 350/2002 . 351/2002.

2. The basic characteristics and distribution of pollutants, assessment of environmental impact.
-Substances according to the chemical and physical properties of organic and inorganic substances.
-Substances according to state, solid, liquid and gaseous.
-Broken down by type of pollution, according to the specific allocation of resources.
-Competent authorities: IPR Ministry of Environment , The Czech Environmental -Inspection (CEI) and CENIA, Czech Environmental Information Agency.
- Integrated Pollution Register.
- Information systems of EIA and SEA.

3. Pollution of water, soil, air
- Pollutants, the main sources of air pollution.
- Key factors of water pollution, the breakdown by location, nature of pollution, specific resources, macroscopic, and thermal pollution.
- Contamination of soil, soil pollution sources.

4.Basic distribution of waste, industrial waste characterization
Legislation :Laws 185/2001, 76/2002, 275/2002, 320/2002, 356/2003, 188/2004
- Distribution according to the amount of waste, according to place of origin.
- Wastes other and hazardous, waste toxicity
- List of hazardous waste, hazard criteria
- Catalogue of waste, broken down into groups
- Hazardous waste, metal-material, non-metallic
- Principles of treatment of industrial waste from the producer of specialized carts

5 Treatment and recovery
- Waste treatment
- Economics of waste management
- Waste dump options
- Waste combustion
- Opportunities for recycling of industrial waste
- Recycling technologies, mechanical, chemical, biological
- Decontamination of fine-grained metallurgical wastes using hydrocyclones.

6. Characteristics of the production technology in metallurgical company, waste and pollutants in the production of coke
- Flow of waste in the metallurgical company.
- Waste sources in technologies.
- Non-waste technology.
- Coke production.
- Coal sludge, coke dust, coke oven gas.
- Emissions to air, water and soil.
- BAT measures integrated into the process.

7.Waste and pollutants in the agglomeration process and the production of pellets
- Characteristics of the sinter process.
- Characteristics of emissions of SO2, NOx, CO and pollutants in the agglomeration process.
- The technologies of production, pelletizing process characteristics.
- Characteristics of emissions, waste water, solid waste.
- BAT measures integrated into the process.

8.Waste and pollutants in the blast furnace iron production
- Characteristics of blast furnace production.
- Separation of pollutants in the blast furnace iron production.
- BAT measures integrated into the process.

9. Waste and pollutants in the production of steel
- The current working methods of steel production.
- Characterization and classification of waste.
- emissions in steel production.


10. Establishment of waste in the production of steel in oxygen converters and electric arc furnaces
- Characteristics of production in oxygen converters, secondary metallurgy.
- Emissions of exhaust gas, waste water, solid waste, by-products.
- Use of gas and slag from steel production.
- Production of steel in electric arc furnaces.
- Emissions of gases, waste water, solid waste, by-products.
- Contamination of water and soil.

11.Processing of foreign wastes in technological processes of metallurgical
- The requirements for disposal of waste in the metallurgy.
- The use of foreign technological waste as fuel, tar.
- Newly created from waste plastics, tire pyrolysis processes - pyrolysis liquid, porous carbon residue.
- Use of pyrolysis carbon skeleton as a sorbent in metallurgical technology.

EXCERCISE (only for full-time study form):

1. Introduction, definition of key variables and concept, planning of excursions.
2. Data for individual Semestral work, documents for presentation
3. Calculation of emission limits, emission factor, emission level.
4. Environmental law
5. Waste low
6. Seminary 1 :Presentation of results semestral work. Discussion.
7. Special Excursion – ArcelorMittal Ostrava a.s. – Recycling of waste
8. Special Excursion – Třinecké železárny a.s. - Waste disposal
9. Seminary 2 : Reports of excursion, presentation of results, discussion
10. BAT- measures integrated into the process
11. Final test, evaluation exercise (Semestral work, report of excursions)

E-learning

Presently are available to support study in the Czech language:

http://www.fmmi.vsb.cz/cs/okruhy/studium-a-vyuka/podklady-ke-studiu

For electronic communication with teachers enjoy university e-mail address:

http://staff.vsb.cz/

There is a continuous expansion of e-learning elements into teaching.

Literature

[1] LANDNER, L; REUTHER, R. Metals in Society and in the Environment- A Critical Review of Current Knowledge on Fluxes, Speciation, Bioavailability and Risk for Adverse Effects of Copper, Chromium, Nickel and Zinc. eBook. Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2004, 386p. ISBN 1-4020-2742-7 .

[2] RAMACHANDRA, R. Resource recovery and recycling from metallurgical wastes. Elsevier`s Science&technology Rights, Department of Oxford, 2006. 557 p. ISBN 978-0-08-045131-2

Advised literature

[1] GHOSH, H.; CHATTERJEE, A. Ironmaking and Steelmaking: Theory and Praktice. Textbook.PHI Learning Pyt. Ltd, 2008, 472 p. ISBN 978-81-203-3289-8.

[2] MRÓZ, J. Recykling i utylizacja materialow odpadowych w agregatach metalurgicznych. Wydawnictwo Politechniki Czestochowskiej, Czestochowa 2006, 207 s. ISBN 83-7193-319-3 .