Metals and the Environment

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	653-3313/02
Abbreviation	KŽP
Course title	Metals and the Environment
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Jitka Malcharcziková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The environment and legislation. List of waste hazardous properties, waste catalogue.
Integrated prevention – IPPC, BAT, BREF.
Tools and instructions on how to reduce the impact of production on the environment.
Registry of environmental pollution. Toxicology, toxicity and ecotoxicity - basic terms.
REACH and Material Safety Data Sheet. Pollutants based on heavy metals in air, water and soil.
Sources and processes of contamination by toxic metals, ecotoxicity and toxicity of metals.
Influence of lead on the environment, its toxicity and ecotoxicity, potential sources of pollution.
Influence of copper on the environment, its toxicity and ecotoxicity, potential sources of pollution.
Influence of aluminium on the environment, its toxicity and ecotoxicity, potential sources of pollution.
Influence of arsenic and cadmium on the environment, their toxicity and ecotoxicity, potential sources of pollution.
Influence of mercury on the environment, its toxicity and ecotoxicity, potential sources of pollution.
Influence of selected heavy metals on the environment, their toxicity and ecotoxicity, potential sources of pollution.
BREF „Non-Ferrous Metals Industries“. BAT for lead, copper, aluminium.

E-learning

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Literature

NORDBERG, G., ed. Handbook on the toxicology of metals. 3rd ed. Burlington: Elsevier/Academic Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-12-369413-3.
YU, M.-H., H. TSUNODA a M. TSUNODA. Environmental toxicology: biological and health effects of pollutants. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4398-4038-2.
LANDIS, W.G. a M.-H. YU. Introduction to environmental toxicology: impacts of chemicals upon ecological systems. Boca Raton: CRC/Lewis Publishers, c2004. ISBN 1-56670-660-2.
MANAHAN, S.E. Toxicological chemistry and biochemistry. 3rd ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2003. ISBN 1-56670-618-1.
MALCHARCZIKOVÁ, J. Metals and the Environment. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2017.

Advised literature

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, 2012. ISBN 978-0-12-385971-6.

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