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Terminated in academic year 2019/2020

Recovery of Metallic Materials

Type of study BachelorFollow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 637-0414/01
Abbreviation RKM
Course title Recovery of Metallic Materials
Credits 7
Coordinating department Department of Non-ferrous Metals, Refining and Recycling
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Miroslav Kursa, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Secondery raw material with content of various metals, their characteristics, distribution, storage and basic treatment.
2. Physical, physico - chemical finishing processes. Hydrometallurgical, pyrometallurgical and combined methods of processing material containing non-ferrous metals, refining procedures.
3. Environmental and economic aspects of the use of secondary raw materials of metal, the current situation and recycling technologies in the Czech Republic.
4. Heavy metals in different parts of the environment, levels of metals in water, soil and air in metallurgy, pollution prevention, the European IPPC Directive.
5. Recycling different types of waste aluminum and its alloys (aluminum smelting and refining waste, swabs).
6. Recycling of different types of waste copper and its alloys (waste copper, bronze, brass, base metal waste depreciation, anode sludge)
7. Recycling of different types of waste nickel and its alloys (ferronickel processing, joint processing of primary raw material).
8. Recycling of different types of waste lead and its alloys (lead-acid balance, batteries, hard lead, pyrometallurgical recycling in KO Pribram.
9. Recycling of different types of waste tin and its alloys (tinplate industrial and amortized wastes)
10. Recycling of different types of waste zinc (hard zinc, zinc ash, zinced of wastes)
11. Recycling of wastes of tungsten carbides, cobalt carbides
12. Recycling of dangerous wastes with content of metals
13. Recycling of cables and splitter wastes

Literature

[1] WILIAMS,P.T. Waste treatment and disposal. John Willey and Sons, 2005

Advised literature

[1] SCHLESINGER, M.E. Aluminium recycling. CRS Press, 2007, 225 s., ISBN 0-8493-9662-X, USA
[2] BIRAT,J.P. Recycling and by-products in the steel industry. La Revue de Metallurgie 2003.