Course Details
Waste Management
Academic Year 2024/25
BP057 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
6 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Legislation and terminology for waste management, physico-chemical characteristic of wastes, waste register, municipal and dangerous waste disposal.
2. Conceptual framework of waste management in the Czech Republic: state-of-the-art and development trends, waste management plans.
3. Packaging, distribution and function.
4. Waste sorting, recycling bins.
5. Landfilling – legislation, types of landfills, technical maintenance, choosing of suitable site, geological and hydrological data, technical solution.
6. Landfill water management, percolation water treatment.
7. Recultivation of landfills.
8. Composting, distribution of composting, composting of biological processes.
9. Thermic methods of waste disposal - burning, gasification, pyrolysis.
10. Field trip to Brno garbage-disposal plant.
11. Garbage-disposal plants, construction works, technological equipment.
Exercise
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Site selection waste disposal, maps date, information about the cadastral territory.
2. Determination of the amount of municipal and biological waste, volumetric design of equipment for waste disposal.
3. Life Cycle Assessment - Environmental managament.
4. Calculation of stability municipal waste landfill Peterson method.
5. The situation landfill + cross sections 1:1000
6. The situation landfill reclamation 1:1000.
7. Proposal size composting facilities, composting machine security.
8. Composting Situation 1: 1000.
9. Technical report.
10. Field trip to Brno garbage-disposal plant.
11. Credit.