637-0806/01 – Recovery of Nonferrous Metals (RNžK)
| 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 | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2003/2004 | Year of cancellation | 2019/2020 |
| Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Student after passing the exam from this subject will gain the following abilities:
- Categorise secondary raw materials containing metals, their classification, storage and basic treatment.
- Select physical and physical-chemical treatment procedures, pyro-metallurgical, hydro-metallurgical, electro-metallurgical and combined processing of metals containing waste, refining of the obtained products.
- Evaluate environmental and economic aspects of use of metals containing secondary raw materials, describe the existing situation in Czech Republic.
- Compare heavy metals in individual components of environment, limits of metals in water, soil and atmosphere, in metallurgical plants.
- Evaluate recycling of selected waste materials from general metals and their alloys (aluminium, copper, nickel, lead, tin, zinc, germanium), carbides of tungsten and cobalt, and materials based on hazardous waste containing metals (dry galvanic cells, burnt-out light sources, discharge tubes, fluorescent lamps, EKO – VÚK Panenské Břežany, s.r.o.) and materials based on cable and chip containing wastes.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Project work
Summary
Current recycling of wastes with non-ferrous metals content in the Czech
Republic; classical methods of recycling in the world; principles of pyro-,
hydro- and electrometallurgical processes in recycling and recovery of selected
metals from industrial and amortization wastes with regard to their
ecotoxicological problems.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Test
E-learning
Other requirements
no further requierements to student
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
• Secondery raw material with content of various metals, their characteristics, distribution, storage and basic treatment.
• Physical, physico - chemical finishing processes. Hydrometallurgical, pyrometallurgical and combined methods of processing waste containing non-ferrous metals, refining procedures.
• 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 (aluminum smelting and refining waste, swabs).
• Recycling of different types of waste copper and its alloys (waste copper, bronze, brass, base metal waste depreciation, anode sludge).
• Recycling of different types of waste nickel and its alloys (Ferronickel processing, joint processing of primary raw material).
• Recycling of different types of waste lead and its alloys (lead-acid balance, batteries, hard lead, pyrometallurgical recycling in KO Pribram.
• Recycling of different types of waste tin and its alloys (tinplate industrial and amortized wastes)
• Recycling of different types of waste zink and its alloys (tinplate industrial and amortized wastes)
• Recycling of different types of wastes precious metal (the anode sludge, electronic waste, discarded autokatalyzátory, Safina Vestec.
• Recycling of wastes of tungsten carbides, cobalt cabides
• Recycling of dangerous wastes with content of metals
• The treatment of cables and turnings wastes
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction