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Recovery of Metallic Materials

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 653-2036/01
Abbreviation RKM
Course title Recovery of Metallic Materials
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jitka Malcharcziková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Basic information on waste management. Waste, methods of waste utilization.
2. Metal waste, their characteristics, classification, treatment.
3. Basic methods and procedures of metal waste processing. Waste treatment and sorting, basic principles, used equipments. Processing of cable and splitter wastes.
4. Wastes of aluminum and its alloys. Waste characteristics, recycling technologies for waste processing, secondary raw materials.
5. Wastes of copper and its alloys. Waste characteristics, recycling technologies for waste processing, secondary raw materials.
6. Wastes of lead and its alloys. Waste characteristics, recycling technologies for waste processing, secondary raw materials.
7. Nickel waste, waste Ni-Cd batteries. Waste characteristics, recycling technologies for waste processing, secondary raw materials.
8. Wastes containing precious metals. Waste characteristics, recycling technologies for waste processing, secondary raw materials.
9. Wastes of tin and its alloys. Waste characteristics, recycling technologies for waste processing, secondary raw materials.
10. Wastes of zinc and its alloys. Waste characteristics, recycling technologies for waste processing, secondary raw materials.
11. Mercury-containing wastes. Waste characteristics, recycling technologies for waste processing, secondary raw materials.
12. Tungsten-containing wastes. Waste characteristics, recycling technologies for waste processing, secondary raw materials.
13. Waste iron and its alloys. Waste characteristics, recycling technologies for waste processing, secondary raw materials.
14. Ecological and economic aspects of processing of metal and metal-bearing raw materials, current situation, recycling technologies in the Czech Republic.
15. Heavy metals in individual components of the environment, pollution prevention, directives.

Literature

WORRELL, E. a M.A. REUTER, ed. Handbook of recycling: state-of-the-art for practitioners, analysts, and scientists. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2014. ISBN 978-0-12-396459-5 .
SCHLESINGER, M.E. Aluminium recycling. Boca Raton: CRC/Taylor & Francis, c2007. ISBN 978-0-8493-9662-5.
RAO, S.R. Resource recovery and recycling from metallurgical wastes. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006. ISBN 0-08-045131-4.

Advised literature

ASHBY, M.F. Materials and the environment: eco-informed material choice. Waltham: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2013. ISBN 978-0-12-385971-6.
NORDBERG, G. Handbook on the toxicology of metals. Burlington: Elsevier/Academic Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-12-369413-3.