Waste Treatment Technology - M240004
Title: Technologie zpracování odpadů
Guaranteed by: Department of Environmental Chemistry (240)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2025 to 2025
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:5
E-Credits: summer s.:5
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:3/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications: Expertise, Interdisciplinarity, Engineering, Communication and presentation skills
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Hendrych Jiří Ing. Ph.D.
Incompatibility : AM240004
Interchangeability : AM240004, N240004
Is incompatible with: AM240004
Is interchangeable with: AM240099, AM240004
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
The course comprehensively addresses the issues of waste management in accordance with the principles of the waste management hierarchy and current legislation. Students will become familiar with waste production, its origins, typology, and development trends. The main emphasis is placed on a detailed characterization of technologies for waste treatment, processing, recovery, and disposal. For each technique and technology, the characteristics of the processes, material flows, technical equipment, and apparatus are systematically presented. The course also includes a critical analysis of the environmental, technical, and economic aspects of individual methods.
Last update: Hendrych Jiří (28.08.2025)
Course completion requirements -

Independent completion of the assigned task and passing the exam.

The exam consists of two parts: a written test and an oral examination.

Attendance at lectures is recommended.

Last update: Hendrych Jiří (28.08.2025)
Literature -

Recommended:

  • 541/2020 Sb.. Zákon o odpadech. . , s., §, odst. , .
  • Mečislav Kuraš. Odpady a jejich zpracování. : Vodní zdroje Ekomonitor, spol. s r. o., 2014, s. ISBN 978-80-86832-80-7.
  • 273/2021 Sb.. Vyhláška o podrobnostech nakládání s odpady.. . , s., §, odst. , .
  • 8/2021 Sb.. Vyhláška o Katalogu odpadů a posuzování vlastností odpadů (Katalog odpadů). , s., §, odst. , .

Optional:

Last update: Hendrych Jiří (28.08.2025)
Teaching methods -

Frontal teaching - lectures. Students will work on and present the assigned task.

Last update: Hendrych Jiří (28.08.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

A written exam test, in which a pass rate of at least 50% is required to be admitted to the oral exam, and an oral exam.

Last update: Hendrych Jiří (28.08.2025)
Syllabus -

1. Introduction, waste generation, history and evolution of waste management, origin, types, and classification of waste, legislation, waste management hierarchy

2. Municipal waste, sorted waste, waste from manufacturing

3. Landfilling I

4. Landfilling II

5. Biological processing techniques I

6. Biological processing techniques II

7. Waste incineration, other thermal processes for waste treatment

8. Physicochemical processes

9. Industrial, agricultural, mining and construction waste

10. Waste recycling – metals, textiles, glass

11. Waste recycling – plastics, paper, electronic waste

12. End-of-life vehicles and waste from the automotive industry

13. New types of waste and the challenges of their treatment

14. The waste–product relationship, illegal waste handling, information systems

Last update: Hendrych Jiří (28.08.2025)
Learning resources -

https://www.cenia.cz/odpadove-a-obehove-hospodarstvi/

https://www.mzp.cz/cz/odpadove_hospodarstvi

https://odpady-online.cz/

https://www.tretiruka.cz/web/ - České ekologické manažerské centrum, z.s. (CEMC)

https://mpo.gov.cz/cz/prumysl/ippc-integrovana-prevence-a-omezovani-znecisteni/referencni-dokumenty-bref/referencni-dokumenty-o-nejlepsich-dostupnych-technikach-bref--143226/

doporučené materiály z přednášek a seminářů

Last update: Hendrych Jiří (28.08.2025)
Learning outcomes -

Students will gain cross-sectional knowledge in the field of waste management and detailed knowledge about waste processing technologies, which they will be able to combine with knowledge from other fields focused on technical environmental care.

Last update: Hendrych Jiří (28.08.2025)
Entry requirements -

Knowledge of the general basics of environmental issues.

Last update: Hendrych Jiří (28.08.2025)
Registration requirements -

No prerequsities

Last update: Hendrych Jiří (28.08.2025)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Účast na přednáškách 1.5 42
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 0.5 14
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 3 84
5 / 5 140 / 140
Coursework assessment
Form Significance
Examination test 50
Oral examination 50