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Waste Management I

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Course Unit Code546-0439/03
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *First Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites There are no prerequisites or co-requisites for this course unit
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
KUC25doc. Dr. Ing. Radmila Kučerová
MUD0002Ing. Jaroslav Mudruňka, Ph.D.
Summary
The course familiarizes students with detailed characteristics of selected wastes from consumption, specific constituents of solid municipal waste, and waste from selected production activities. The different types of waste are characterized in line with legislation on waste. Within the course students learn about the hierarchy of waste management, strategic goals of waste management of the Czech Republic, and priority waste flows based on the valid Czech legislation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Knowledge rendered after completion of the course: Students will focus on waste legislation, can characterize the selected types of waste, incl. methods of their treatment, recovery and disposal.
Skills rendered after completion of the course: Students are able to apply the waste management legislation, can evaluate the different types of waste in terms of their further processing, respectively. utilization.
Course Contents
1. The principles of waste management and related legislation.
2. Solid municipal waste - collection, transport and disposal.
3. Solid municipal waste - paper, plastics and glass.
4. Solid municipal waste - biowaste.
5. Electric and electronic waste.
6. Wastes from the chemical industry.
7. Wastes from the manufacture and processing of metals.
8. Wastes from glass and ceramic industries.
9. Waste of energy.
10. Waste from mining and mineral processing.
11. Wastes from agriculture.
12. Waste from construction activities.
13. Radioactive waste.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
CHEREMISINOFF, Paul N. Handbook of solid waste management and waste minimization technologies. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, c2003. ISBN 0-7506-7507-1.
KALOGIROU, Efstratios N. Waste-to-energy technologies and global applications. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2018]. ISBN 978-1-138-03520-1.
LAGREGA, Michael D., Phillip L. BUCKINGHAM a Jeffrey C EVANS. Hazardous waste management. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2001. McGraw-Hill series in water resources and environmental engineering. ISBN 0-07-039365-6.
WOODARD, Frank. Industrial waste treatment handbook. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, c2001. ISBN 0-7506-7317-6.
KURAŠ, M. Odpady a jejich zpracování. Ekomonitor, 2014. ISBN 978-80-86832-80-7. 334 s.
HLAVATÁ, M. Odpadové hospodářství. Skriptum. 2. doplněné vydání. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská – Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2007. ISBN 978-80-248-0373-9. 170 s.
SBÍRKA ZÁKONŮ ČESKÉ REPUBLIKY. Dostupné na WWW: https://www.mvcr.cz/sbirka-zakonu.aspx
VALLERO D.A. Waste: A Handbook for Management. 2011 Elsevier Inc. p. 565. ISBN: 978-0-12-381475-3.
Recommended Reading:
NEMEROW, Nelson Leonard a Franklin J AGARDY. Strategies of industrial and hazardous waste management. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1998. ISBN 0-471-29216-8.
AQUINO, John, ed. Waste age/Recycling times' recycling handbook. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers, c1995. ISBN 1-56670-068-X.
Wastes and Environment: 22.-23.10.2009, VŠB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic. Ostrava: VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, 2009. ISBN 978-80-248-2074-3. Sborníky konferencí. Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita Ostrava.
DepoTech 2014: Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallverwertung und Recycling, Deponietechnik und Altlasten. Leoben: Montanuniversität, c2014. ISBN 978-3-200-03797-7. Sborníky konferencí. Montanuniversität Leoben.
SLIVKA, V., DIRNER, V., KURAŠ, M., Odpadové hospodářství I a II: praktická příručka. 1. vyd. Ostrava: VŠB – TU Ostrava, 2006. 130 s. ISBN 80-248-1245-2.
KIZLINK, Juraj. Odpady: sběr, zpracování, zužitkování, zneškodnění, legislativa. 3., upr. a rozš. vyd., V Akademickém nakl. CERM 1. vyd. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7204-884-7. Skripta. Vysoké učení technické v Brně.
TWARDOWSKA, Irena, Herbert Ellis ALLEN, A. A. KETTRUP a William J. LACY, ed. Solid waste: assessment, monitoring and remediation. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004. Waste management series, v. 4. ISBN 0-080-44321-4.
Odborné internetové portály, např. ekokom.cz, jaktridit.cz, enviweb.cz, biom.cz, kompostuj.cz, asekol.cz, arnika.org, mzp.cz, vitejtenazemi.cz
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Experimental work in labs
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
        CreditCredit33 17
        ExaminationExamination67 34