546-0851/01 – Introduction to mineral biotechnology (UdMB)
Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 3 |
Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Iva Janáková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Iva Janáková, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory type A |
Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | |
Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The course provides knowledge on the application of biological processes in the industry, particularly in the remediation of the environment affected by mining and industrial activities. Students are introduced into the issues of the currently applied industrial biotechnologies exploiting the technologies based on the interaction of live organisms and contaminants in the environment, e.g. crude oil, plastics or toxic metals. Several lectures are dedicated to the use of biotechnologies in other industrial branches, where biotechnologies have been successfully used for some time (food processing, building, and pharmaceutical industries) and point at further prospective options for their use, especially in the processes of modern methods in mining and processing of mineral resources and waste.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Summary
The course provides knowledge on the application of biological processes in the industry, particularly in the remediation of the environment affected by mining and industrial activities. Students are introduced into the issues of the currently applied industrial biotechnologies exploiting the technologies based on the interaction of live organisms and contaminants in the environment, e.g. crude oil, plastics or toxic metals. Several lectures are dedicated to the use of biotechnologies in other industrial branches, where biotechnologies have been successfully used for some time (food processing, building, and pharmaceutical industries) and point at further prospective options for their use, especially in the processes of modern methods in mining and processing of mineral resources and waste.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
In lectures, continuous knowledge control is maked through a discussion of the subject matter. The course is completed by a combined (oral, written) exam.
E-learning
Other requirements
Active participation in subject. Write a project.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Introduction. General characteristics of biodegradation and biological removal of pollutants from the environment.
2. Microbial communities in the bioprocesses and their specificities.
3. Biotechnologies in the processing and treatment of mineral resources – basic methods and principles.
4. Biotechnologies in the processing and treatment of mineral resources – processing of different ore and non-ore materials.
5. Contaminants in the environment – the most widespread representatives, classification (organic, inorganic), their properties and their behaviour in the environment, toxicity.
6.Biotechnologies and the environment – basic techniques, technologies and principles of pollutant removal.
7. Biotechnologies and the environment – biodegradation of crude oil and its derivatives, and biofuels.
8. Biotechnologies and the environment – biodegradation of hydrocarbons.
9. Biotechnologies and the environment - waste disposal.
10. Biotechnologies in the food industry and in the pharmaceutical industry.
11. Biotechnologies applied in wastewater treatment.
12. Biotechnologies in the building industry.
13. Biotechnologies in other industrial branches.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction