Course: Minimization and Recycling of Industrial and Agricultural Waste

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Course title Minimization and Recycling of Industrial and Agricultural Waste
Course code UECHI/C176
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study 2
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Dušek Libor, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Soil Fund of the Czech Republic, soil creditworthiness, soil-forming factors, degradation factors and their possible minimization, current trends in land use and their impacts. 2. Food or fuel? Is food self-sufficiency advantageous? Production of staple foods in the Czech Republic. Renewable fuels and their transformation Utilization of biomass for fuels. When does it make sense to produce biofuels? Biofuels generation 1.-3. Local and global approach 3. Wastes from agricultural and food production, biodegradable waste, suitable and available technologies, their overview and classification. Possibilities of handling BRO. 4. Processing of waste from food production, production of feed and food supplements, practical examples. 5. Composting technologies, their classification and description. 6. Biogas stations, available inputs, technologies, process modification, biogas use - heat, electricity, or source of chemical raw material? 7. Waste wood and its recycling Recycling technology of wood and all-material materials Division of wood its properties and possibilities of processing, wood recycling, production of structural and building boards, building insulation based on cellulose, paper recycling .... 8. Recycling of metallic materials Iron and its alloys, steel, importance of alloys, interpretation of terms and classification according to material usage, availability of primary and secondary sources, recycling technologies of iron and steel, overview of non-ferrous metals and their alloys from the point of view of their use, strategic materials for engineering and chemical industry, recycling aluminum, zinc, copper ... 9. Gold, silver, or precious and strategic metals A look into history, available resources, impacts of mining, recycling, recovery. 10. Production and recycling of glass Production and recycling of building, packaging and automotive glass, unit operations and recycling line ... 11. Production and recycling of plastics Classification of plastics and ways of application, recycling dilemma of plastics material or chemical use, illustrating examples from industry ... 12. Rubber recycling Availability of natural and synthetic rubber and their recycling, vulcanization, devulcanization, processing of worn tires, pyrolysis of rubber as a fuel source. 13. Production and recycling of batteries and accumulators Technology overview, history and current trends. 14. Control test

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes is to acquaint students with modern technologies minimizing production waste and demonstration of recycling technologies processing biodegradable waste and overview of recycling of industrial waste.
Soil is an essential means of cultivating agricultural crops and its meaningful use is gaining importance in the contemporary world, as is the recycling of agricultural waste. The importance and perspectives of recycling of industrially usable raw materials for the Czech Republic need not be emphasized ... The student gains a comprehensive overview of the use of land resources of the Czech Republic, raw materials and energy sources and possibilities of their recycling according to current BAT.
Prerequisites
General overview.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Didactic test, Discussion

There are no specific requirements for students, participation and successful completion of the didactic test is required before the oral exam.
Recommended literature
  • Christensen, Thomas H. Solid waste technology & management. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2011. ISBN 978-1-405-17517-3.
  • Letcher a kol. Waste - A handbook for Management. London, 2011. ISBN 978-0-12-381475-3.
  • M. Slezák. Ekologické aspekty chemických technologií a technologie zpracování odpadů (první část). Pardubice, 2004. ISBN 80-7194-692-3.


Study plans that include the course
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