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Metallurgical Production and the Environment

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Course Unit Code618-2003/02
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *First Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
PUS37doc. Ing. Pavlína Pustějovská, Ph.D.
VAV0047Ing. Petr Vavrečka
Summary
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Acquired knowledge:
- The student will be able to formulate the basic concepts and principles of environmental protection, including legislation on the environment;
- The student will be able to characterize the pollutants and wastes generated during the various technologies metallurgical production and aftermarket.

Acquired skills:
- The student will be able to use their knowledge to determine the appropriateness of metallurgical processes;
- The student will be able to apply their theoretical knowledge to specific proposals for modifications metallurgical technology with the use of BAT.
Course Contents
1. Metallurgical production : Basic characteristics and distribution of metallurgical production. Scheme of the waste stream in the metallurgical enterprise. Sources of waste in different technologies.
2. Environment and pollutants : Basic concepts and principles of environmental protection legislation in the field of environment: laws, government regulations, decrees.. The basic classification and characteristics of pollutants. The impact assessment on the environment, the competent authorities.
3. Industrial waste : The basic differentiation of waste. Law 185/2001 Code. Waste, waste toxicity. Product waste-separation into groups. Characteristics of industrial wastes - distributions.
4. Principles of disposal and industrial waste treatment and waste economy. Landfill options of combustion. Recycling of waste and recycling technologie.
5. BAT - best available technology, implementation a European Commission decision 2012/135/EU, BREF for the production of iron and steel. LCA (Life Cycle Assessment)
in metallurgy.
6. Cokemaking and the Environment : The processes in the manufacture of coke, coal treatment and preparation, coking, pushing, getting tar from coke oven gas. Coal sludge, coke dust, processing residues from coke facilities. Emissions to air, water and soil pollution, BAT - measures integrated into the process.
7. Production of sinter and environmental characteristics of agglomeration process, emissions of SO2, NOx, CO and pollutants in the agglomeration process. Solid waste, recycling waste from metallurgy, BAT-measures integrated into the process.
8. Pellet production and the environment, technology of production, characteristics of emissions, waste water, solid waste, recycling waste from metallurgy, BAT-measures integrated into the process.
9. Production of iron and the Environment : The procedures of iron (sponge iron) in the Czech Republic and abroad. Characteristics of blast-furnace production, division of harmful substances in the blast furnace iron production, recycling of wastes from metallurgical, BAT - measures integrated into the process. Characteristics and distribution of alternative ironmaking gas emissions, waste water, by-products, comparison of technologies.
10. Steel production and the Environment : Current methods of steel production from the environmental point of view. Characterization and classification of waste, waste in the production of steel in an oxygen converter, exhausted gas emissions, waste water, solid waste, by-products.
11. Production of steel in electric arc furnaces, the characteristics of manufacturing process for gas emissions, waste water, solid waste, water and soil contamination, BAT - measures integrated into the process
12. Metallurgical successive production processes and the Environment : Used procedures in metallurgical successive processes, waste from shaping and heat treatment, surface treatment, waste from the preparation of finished products, emissions and waste water,
13. Waste from foundry, gaseous emissions, waste water, waste recycling, BAT - measures integrated into the process.
14. New procedures trapping pollutants: electrostatic and bag filters. Characteristics and legislative framework. The use of captured particles. New possibilities of using fine grain waste.


Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
RAMACHANDRA, R.: Resource recovery and recycling from metallurgical wastes. Elsevier`s Science&technology Rights, Department of Oxford, 2006. 557 p.

CAVALIERE, P. et al. Ironmaking and Steelmaking Processes. Greenhouse Emissions, Control, and Reduction.1st ed. Springer, 2016. ISBN 978-3-319-39527-2.

PUSTĚJOVSKÁ, P.and E. KARDAS. Energetické využití odpadů s ohledem na životní prostředí /Odzysk energii w odniesieniu do środowiska. Ostrava: AMOS repro, spol. s. r.o., 2014. ISBN 978-80-248-3383-5.

BILÍK, J. et al. Modelování, analýza a predikce pochodů výroby železa z hlediska současných energetických a ekologických požadavků. Brno : Akademické nakladatelství CERM. 2013. ISBN 978-80-7204-854-0.

HERČÍK, M. Životní prostředí : základy environmetalistiky. 1. vyd. Ostrava: VŠB–TU Ostrava, 2006. ISBN 80-248-1073-5.

BEDNÁŘOVÁ, V. Recyklace slévárenských odpadů – regenerace formovacích směsí. 1. vyd. VŠB–TU Ostrava: VŠB–TU Ostrava, 2004. ISBN 80-248-0682-7.

PUSTĚJOVSKÁ, P. Metalurgická výroba a životní prostředí. Studijní opora k předmětu. 2016,160 s. Dostupná z www: http://katedry.fmmi.vsb.cz/Opory_FMMI/618/618-Metalurgicka-vyroba-a-zivotni-prostredi.pdf

Recommended Reading:
JOUHARI, A.K, GALGALI, R.,K, MISRA, V.N. Smelting Reduction for Iron Making. New Delhi : Allied Publishers LTD, 2002. ISBN 81-7764-394-0.
KRET, J. Škodliviny při výrobě surového železa. 1. vyd. Ostrava: VŠB – TU Ostrava, Ostrava 2003. ISBN 80-248-0552-9.

KRET, J. Recyklace odpadů hutnictví železa. 1. vyd. Ostrava: VŠB–TU Ostrava, 2003. ISBN 80-248-0511-1.

BOTULA, J. Recyklace odpadů kovových a kovonosných. 1. vyd. Ostrava: VŠB – TU Ostrava, Ostrava 2003. ISBN 80-248-0495-6.

KLIBER, J. Základy tváření kovů. 3. vyd. Ostrava : VŠB-TU Ostrava, Ostrava 2008. ISBN 978-80-248-1794-1.

MRÓZ, J. Recykling i utylizacja materialow odpadowych w agregatach metalurgicznych. Wydawnictwo Politechniki Czestochowskiej, Czestochowa 2006. ISBN 978-83-7193-319-6.


Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Individual consultations, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit30 21
        ExaminationExamination70 30