Course Details

Waste Management

Academic Year 2023/24

BP057 course is part of 1 study plan

B-P-C-SI (N) / V Summer Semester 4th year

The subject covers the filed of environmental engineering and environmental protection, especially protection against leakage of hazardous substances from both municipal and industrial wastes.
Attention is focused on the concept of Waste Management in the Czech Republic. As for technical methods of waste disposal, the subject is oriented on composting and landfilling waste according the current Czech legislation.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

The primary purpose of this course is to review the current of art in solid waste management, with emphasis on municipal garbage impacts on the ground waters, means of impact mitigation and implementation of the national standards and management programs. The subject brings groudings about Planning, Design and Operation of Waste management.

Knowledge

Student will manage aim of course: Planning, Design and Operation of Waste management.

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.

Prerequisites

Hydrogeology
Water chemistry
Soil mechanics

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

6 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

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.