Waste and secondary raw materials

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	English
Code	653-2030/02
Abbreviation	OaDS
Course title	Waste and secondary raw materials
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Jitka Malcharcziková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Waste - the basic terms, types of waste. Waste management, legislation in WM.
Procedures for minimizing waste generation.
Waste utilization methods.
Waste disposal methods.
Overview of technologies for processing non-metallic waste - examples of the application of secondary raw materials.
Overview of technologies for the processing of metal and metal-bearing waste - examples of the application of secondary raw materials.
Issues of municipal waste - characteristics of waste, possibilities of their utilization.
Specifics of bio-waste management - characteristics of waste, possibilities of their utilization.
Selected industrial wastes – characteristics of waste, possibilities of their utilization.
Limiting factors for waste processing, obtaining and utilization secondary raw materials.
Environment and waste. Hazardous waste.
Possibilities and procedures for reducing the negative impact of waste generation on the environment, circular economy.

Literature

WORRELL, E. a M. A. REUTER. Handbook of recycling: state-of-the-art for practitioners, analysts, and scientists. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2014. .
ASHBY, M. F. Materials and the environment: eco-informed material choice. Waltham: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-12-385971-6.

Advised literature

RAMACHANDRA RAO, S. R. Resource Recovery and Recycling from Metallurgical Wastes. Elsevier, London, 2006. ISBN 978-0-08-045131-2.
GHOST, Sandham K., Ed. Circular Economy: Global Perspective. Springer, 2020, 453 s. .

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