546-0439/04 – Waste Management I (OHI)

Gurantor department	Department of Environmental Engineering	Credits	4
Subject guarantor	doc. Dr. Ing. Radmila Kučerová	Subject version guarantor	doc. Ing. Iva Janáková, Ph.D.
Study level	undergraduate or graduate
		Study language	English
Year of introduction	2019/2020	Year of cancellation
Intended for the faculties	HGF	Intended for study types	Follow-up Master

Instruction secured by
Login	Name	Tuitor	Teacher giving lectures
KUC25	doc. Dr. Ing. Radmila Kučerová

Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of study	Way of compl.	Extent
Full-time	Credit and Examination	2+2
Part-time	Credit and Examination	8+8

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:

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.

Recommended literature:

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.

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

Full-time form (validity from: 2019/2020 Winter semester)

Task name	Type of task	Max. number of points (act. for subtasks)	Min. number of points	Max. počet pokusů
Credit and Examination	Credit and Examination	100 (100)	51
Credit	Credit	33	17
Examination	Examination	67	34	3

Valid from	Valid until	Mandatory attendence participation
Jul 22, 2020 11:20:52 AM	Feb 14, 2023 9:54:55 AM	Lectures and exercises

Mandatory attendence participation: Students are obliged to attend lectures and elaborate a final project on a given topic. The course is finished with an oral and written examination.

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Conditions for subject completion and attendance at the exercises within ISP: Compensation for the mandatory participation in the ISP will be the compilation of a seminar paper and a project on the assigned topic. The course is completed with an oral and written examination.

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Part-time form (validity from: 2019/2020 Winter semester)

Task name	Type of task	Max. number of points (act. for subtasks)	Min. number of points	Max. počet pokusů
Credit and Examination	Credit and Examination	100 (100)	51
Credit	Credit	33	17
Examination	Examination	67	34	3

Valid from	Valid until	Mandatory attendence participation
Jul 22, 2020 11:21:29 AM	Feb 14, 2023 9:55:43 AM	Lectures and exercises

Occurrence in study plans

Academic year	Programme	Branch/spec.	Spec.	Zaměření	Form	Study language	Tut. centre	Year	W	S	Type of duty
2022/2023	(N0788A290002) Waste Management and Mineral Processing			OH	P	English	Ostrava	1			Compulsory	study plan
2021/2022	(N0788A290002) Waste Management and Mineral Processing			OH	P	English	Ostrava	1			Compulsory	study plan

Occurrence in special blocks

Block name	Academic year	Form of study	Study language	Year	W	S	Type of block	Block owner

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