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Terminated in academic year 2019/2020

Recycling of specific wastes

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 637-3032/01
Abbreviation ReSO
Course title Recycling of specific wastes
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Non-ferrous Metals, Refining and Recycling
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Ivo Szurman, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction, characteristics of selected wastes, basic concepts.
2. Magnetic scrap.
3. Depleted catalysts, automotive catalytic converters.
4. Silver wastes - solid.
5. Silver wastes - liquid.
6. Radioactive wastes.
7. Used batteries and accumulators.
8. Composite wastes processing.
9. Combined wastes.
10. Selected polymer based types wastes.
11. Wrecked cars as a source of secondary raw materials.
12. Recycling of wastes containing mercury.
13. Tungsten wastes.
14. Problems of treatment of retired photovoltaic panels.

E-learning

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Literature

WORRELL, E. a M. A. REUTER. Handbook of recycling: state-of-the-art for practitioners, analysts, and scientists. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2014. ISBN 978-0-12-396459-5 .
RAO, S. R. Resource recovery and recycling from metallurgical wastes. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006. ISBN 0-08-045131-4.
ASHBY, M. F. Materials and the environment: eco-informed material choice. Waltham: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-12-385971-6.

Advised literature

NORDBERG, G. Handbook on the toxicology of metals. Burlington: Elsevier/Academic Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-12-369413-3.