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Environmental Engeneering

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 660-0901/02
Abbreviation EI
Course title Environmental Engeneering
Credits 10
Coordinating department Centre for Advanced Innovation Technologies
Course coordinator Prof. Mgr. Jana Kukutschová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1.Air protection - pollutants in the air, sources emitting these pollutants, national emission reduction programme of the Czech Republic (update 2023), emission analysis, measures to reduce emissions of monitored pollutants.
2. Water protection - pollutants in water, conditions of discharge of wastewater into surface waters or sewers, processes and technologies of wastewater treatment (urban and industrial), water recycling, basic legislation of the Czech Republic and the EU.
3. Soil pollution - pollutants in soils, their sources and strategies for their reduction.
4. Hazardous wastes generated by anthropogenic sources, their definition, their management and strategies to reduce their environmental risk.
5. Material recovery of wastes - general principles of recycling and recovery processes.
6. Waste from metallurgical plants - slags and sludges from iron and steel production, recovery of valuable waste components (Zn, Pb), technologies to minimize their hazardousness.
7. Fine-grained wastes from iron and steel production - methods for recovery of heavy metals and iron from fine fractions after separation from flue gas.
8. Electrical waste as secondary raw materials - modern methods of recovery, chemical and physical processes for separation of components such as Zn, Fe, Pb, Cr, Co, Ni, etc.
9. Polymeric wastes - use of polymeric wastes from car wrecks with regard to the considerable diversity of materials in the automotive industry (light plastics, rubbers, etc.).
10. Construction and demolition waste - new types of construction materials, sustainable development in the field of construction, possibilities of using construction and demolition waste, application of quasi-fragile composites (concrete, special binders, hydraulically cemented mixtures, etc.).
11. Life cycle analysis of selected waste types.
12. Composting of biodegradable waste - modern composting technologies, methods of intensification of the composting process, use of sludge from wastewater treatment plants in the composting process.
13. Progressive technologies in anaerobic treatment of biowaste - modern types of reactors, methods of biogas purification, bio-methane production, CO2 production from biogas, hydrogen production by dark fermentation of biowaste.
14. Energy utilization of waste - technical solutions of energy units, new scientific and research findings in the field of reduction of pollutant emissions from energy installations (intensification of the process of reducing NOx, TZL, HCl, HF, SO2 emissions from flue gases).
15. Pyrolysis and gasification of waste - the principle of technology, yields and quality of pyrolysis and gasification products, possibilities of using solid, liquid and gaseous products of pyrolysis and gasification of waste.

Literature

AMATO, F. (ed.). Non-exhaust emissions: an urban air quality problem for public health : impact and mitigation measures. London: Elsevier, Academic Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-12-811770-5.

TONELLI, Fernanda Maria Policarpo; BHAT, Rouf Ahmad a DAR, Gowhar Hamid. Nanotechnology for environmental pollution decontamination: tools, methods, and approaches for detection and remediation. Online. Palm Bay, FL: Apple Academic Press, 2023. ISBN 9781003279563 

WOODARD, F. Industrial Waste Treatment Handbook. Butterworth – Heinemann, Boston, 2008, ISBN-0750679638.

Advised literature

THOMÉ-KOZMIENSKY, Karl J a Stephanie THIEL, ed. Waste management. Volume 4, Waste-to-energy. Neuruppin: TK, 2014. ISBN 978-3-944310-15-2.

EVANS, Gareth M. Biowaste and biological waste treatment. London: James & James, c2001. ISBN 1-902916-08-5.

PIERZYNSKI, Gary M; SIMS, J. T a VANCE, George F. Soils and environmental quality. 3rd ed. Boca Raton: CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2005. ISBN 0-8493-1616-2.