637-0408/01 – Raw Sources and Recovery (DSR)
| Gurantor department | Department of Non-ferrous Metals, Refining and Recycling | Credits | 5 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Miroslav Kursa, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Miroslav Kursa, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 3 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2004/2005 | Year of cancellation | 2019/2020 |
| Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Student will gain the following abilities:
- Describe and classify metal containing waste from the viewpoint of their occurrence, properties and possibilities of use.
- Enumerate physical and physical - chemical processing procedures. Pyrometallurgical, hydrometallurgical, electrometallurgical and combined methods for processing of material containing ferrous metals, refining of the obtained products.
- Explain and differentiate processing of metals containing waste based on: iron and its alloys, lead and its alloys, tin and its alloys, tungsten and its alloys, aluminium and its alloys, noble metals, hazardous metals containing waste.
- Describe sintering and pelletisation of fine-grained materials, fly dust and sludges.
- Make an overview of environmental and economic aspects of use of metals containing raw materials, describe the current situation in Czech Republic.
- Characterise heavy metals in individual components of environment, limits of metals in water, soil and atmosphere in metallurgical plants.
- Compare the best available technologies (BAT) in metallurgy from the viewpoint of environmental protection.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Project work
Summary
Metalbearing secondary raw materials, their characteristics, distribution, depositing, processing and treatment; physical and physico-chemical treatment methods, hydro- and pyrometallurgical processing of metallurgical wastes; refining of obtained products; ecological and economical aspects of secondary metalbearing materials reuse, present situation in the Czech Republic; heavy metals in the environment, the limit concentration in waters, soils and air pollution, heavy metals in metallurgical operations; treatment of metalbearing wastes on the basis of lead, tin, noble metals, tungsten and their alloys (lead scrap, batteries, anodic sludge, electronical wastes etc.).
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
test, application of the knowledge on the solution of problems and experimental exercises
E-learning
Other requirements
no further requirements to student
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
• Raw sources with content of metals (wastes of non-ferrous metalls and Fe), theirs characteristical, distribution, storage and treatment
• Physical, physico - chemical finishing processes. Hydrometallurgical, pyrometallurgical and combined methods of processing waste containing non-ferrous metals.
• Environmental and economic aspects of the use of secondary raw materials of metal, the current situation and recycling technologies in the Czech Republic.
• Heavy metals in different parts of the environment, levels of metals in water, soil and air in metallurgy, pollution prevention, the European IPPC Directive in the metallurgy of lead, copper and aluminum.
• Recycling different types of waste aluminum and its alloys
• Recycling of different types of waste copper and its alloys
• Recycling of different types of waste lead and its alloys
• Recycling of different types of waste nickel and its alloys
• Recycling of waste zinc
• Recycling of different types of wastes precious metal
• Recycling of dangerous wastes with content of metals
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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