Waste Management and Treatment - AM240099
Title: Waste Management and Treatment
Guaranteed by: Department of Environmental Chemistry (240)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2019 to 2020
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:4
E-Credits: winter s.:4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:3/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
For type: Master's (post-Bachelor)
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Kubal Martin prof. Dr. Ing.
Šír Marek Ing. Ph.D.
Interchangeability : M240004, N240004
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This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
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Providing skills in the field of waste collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal, with special amphasis on to solid waste - both municipal and industrial. The main aim of the course is to enlighten the state of the art in waste management and treatment technology, organizational and legislative developments and practices of handling solid wastes within the Czech Republic and Europe.
Aim of the course -
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Students will be able to apply technical knowledge learned within the course to numerous professional activities, including mainly construction and operation of waste treatment facilities.

Literature -
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Williams P.T., Waste Treatment and Disposal, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2005, ISBN: 0-470-84912-6

Sarkar A., Singh R.P., Waste Management : Challenges, Threats and Opportunities, Nova Science Publishers Inc, 2015, ISBN: 1634821505

Wang L.K., Hung Y.T., Lo H.H., Yapijakis C., Waste Treatment in the Process Industries, CRC Press, 2005, ISBN 9780849372339

Learning resources -
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https://e-learning.vscht.cz/
Syllabus -
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1. Origin of waste, waste classification

2. Information systems in waste management

3. Waste processing technologies

4. Waste recycling

5. Municipal waste

6. Industrial waste

7. Agricultural waste

8. Waste from chemical industry

9. Waste landfilling

10. Composting and agricultural processing of waste

11. Thermal treatment of waste

12. Physico-chemical processing of waste

13. Waste minimisation

14. Waste legislation in EU region

Registration requirements -
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no prerequsities
Course completion requirements -
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written test + exam