Course Details

Academic Year 2026/27

BJA003-A course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-ENI Summer Semester 1st year

The course will provide students with information about environmental problems, anthropogenic activities, waste production, individual types of waste and their characteristics, processing, recycling and basic processing technologies - biological, thermal, landfilling and solidification. Students will also learn about basic approaches of waste analysis. In addition, alternative ways of waste treatment will be discussed.

Credits

3 credits

Language of instruction

English

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Lenka Bodnárová, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Entry Knowledge

Physics.

Chemistry.

Aims

Professional knowledge
The student has basic awareness of environmental problems, has knowledge of waste handling and management, waste analysis, conventional and special waste processing methods.
Professional skills
The student has an overview of waste types and their properties and possibilities of their analysis.
Professional competences
The student is able to propose appropriate waste disposal strategies.

Basic Literature

CHRISTENSEN T.H. (Ed). 2011. Solid Waste Technology and Management. Volume 1 and 2. Wiley. 2011 (en)
LETCHER T.M., VALLERO D.A. (Eds.) 2021. Waste. A Handbook for Management. Second edition. Elsevier AP (en)

Recommended Reading

BENDER Herbert. F. and Philipp EISENBARTH. P. Hazardous Chemicals. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2007. ISBN 978-3-527-31541-3 (en)
SCHEIRS, John and Walter KAMINSKY. Feedstock Recycling and Pyrolysis of Waste Plastics. New York: Wiley, 2006. ISBN 978-0-470-02152-1 (en)
KIZLINK, J: Nakládání s odpady, FCH VUT, Brno 2012, ISBN 978-80-214-4413-3 (cs)

Prerequisites

Physics.

Chemistry.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/303203

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Environmental compartments, anthropogenic activities and influence on natural systems.
  • 2. Fundamentals of waste legislation, terminology of waste management. Circular economy, LCA. Sources and types of waste, treatment strategies.
  • 3. Waste analysis.
  • 4. Environmental biotechnology, basic terms, processes. Composting I.
  • 5. Environmental biotechnology: composting II, vermicomposting.
  • 6. Environmental biotechnology: anaerobic digestion.
  • 7. Thermal methods of waste treatment – incineration.
  • 8. Thermal methods of waste processing – pyrolysis, gasification, product recovery.
  • 9. Landfilling.
  • 10. Waste types, source of waste, hazardous waste, solidification, tailings impoundment.
  • 11. Industrial activities and waste.
  • 12. Plastic waste and its recycling.
  • 13. Alternative technologies of waste treatment, new waste types.

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

2 weeks, 4 hours/week, elective