Course Details

Waste Management

Academic Year 2024/25

BPB013 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. Assessment of the cost of waste in the selected municipality. 4. Calculation of the amount of waste in the municipality, proposal of a new waste management concept. 5. Economic assessment of waste management in the municipality. 6. Design of collection center 1: 500. 7. Design of the size of composting objects, situation of composting plant 1: 1000. 8. Economic assessment of the proposed measure in the municipality. 9. Technical report. 10. Field trip to Brno garbage-disposal plant. 11. Credit.