546-0439/03 – Waste Management I (OHI)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Dr. Ing. Radmila Kučerová | Subject version guarantor | doc. Dr. Ing. Radmila Kučerová |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
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.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
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.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
In the exercises check acquired knowledge in the form of written work, then active participation in seminars and elaboration of semester work.
At the end of the semester written and oral examination.
E-learning
Other requirements
Active participation in exercises. Study of supplementary literature.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
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.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction