Waste Management 4030-WMb
In the frame of the lecture (10 h), the following topics are discussed:
1. Sustainable development rules in waste management
2. Legislation and rules in waste storage, transport and utilization.
3. Novel methods for the utilization of pollution from exhaust gases.
4. Environmental-friendly technologies in waste management.
5. Disposal of Volatile organic compounds.
6. Waste management in the circular economy.
The exercises (65 h) comprise several projects and visits to waste utilization plants. Every project covers lab classes and seminar parts.
There are the following topics of projects:
Waste management of plastics.
Recycling of plastic materials.
Radioactive wastes.
Nanotechnology in waste management.
Disposal of the waste from batteries.
Analysis of organic contaminants with gas chromatography.
Odour characteristics of biosolids from a wastewater treatment plant using gas chromatography methods coupled with chemical detectors and olfactory detection port (ODP).
TEXTILES: tackle the waste problem using the „Encounter, understand, act” principle.
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
The student knows and understands sustainable development rules in waste management, challenges in environmental safety of technologies used in waste management, fundamentals of legislation in waste management in Poland and the European Union, and safety rules in lab work; the student can work interdisciplinary, evaluate technologies of waste management and analytical techniques applicability; the student is ready to communicate effectively with experts on waste management
K_W01; K_W02; K_W05; K_W06; K_W11;
K_U02; K_U03; K_U04; K_U07; K_K01; K_K02; K_K04; K_K05; K_K06;
Assessment criteria
A grade from the course is obtained from the lecture (test) and project classes.
To take credit from the project class, performing lab work, giving a presentation and preparing a report is required.
Practical placement
Not applicable
Bibliography
O. David Sparkman, Zelda E. Penton, Fulton G. Kitson., Gas chromatography and mass spectrometry : a practical guide, Amsterdam Elsevier, 2011
Harold M. McNair, James M. Miller., Basic gas chromatography, 2nd ed. Wiley, 2009
Sudip K Samanta, Om V Singh, Rakesh K Jain, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: environmental pollution and bioremediation, In Trends in Biotechnology, Volume 20, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 243-248
A.J. King, J.W. Readman, J.L. Zhou, Determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in water by solid-phase microextraction–gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, Analytica Chimica Acta, Volume 523, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 259-267
http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/ - free database of the EI mass spectra of organic compounds, including PAHs
W. van Loon, S. J. Duffy “Environmental Chemistry: A Global Perspective” Oxford Univesity Press, 2005.
E. Merian "The Elements in the environment" Verlag Chemie Basel, Weinheim, 1984.
Roger N. Reeve, Introduction Environmental Analysis, Wiley 2002 online.
Radojevic M, Bashkin VN (2006) Practical Environmental Analysis. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2nd ed. 482 p.
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