Industrial waste

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Course teacher

Associate teachers

Status of the course

Course objectives

- The acquisition of knowledge about the sources, types and quantities of industrial
waste material
- The possibilities of permanent and environmentally safe disposal of industrial
waste
- Recycling and getting new products.

Course enrolment requirements and entry competences required for the course

None

Learning outcomes expected at the level of the course (4 to 10 learning outcomes)

After passing the exam, the student is expected to know:
- Substances that make industrial waste
- Definitions and law prescribed limits
- Sources, types and amounts of industrial waste materials
- Recycling and getting of new products
- Permanent and environmentally safe disposal

Course content broken down in detail by weekly class schedule (syllabus)

1st week: Introduction, the impact on the environment , legislation on industrial waste
2nd week: Sources and types of industrial waste
3rd week: Mining and rites of raw materials and the production of harmful substances
4th week: Technological processes which produce harmful waste products – metallurgical and hydrometallurgical processes
5th week: The production of inorganic binders and building materials and industrial waste
6th week: Scrap metal working industries and recovery procedures
7th week: Construction waste and options for disposal or recovery
8th week: Assessment (first colloquium);
9th week: Technological processes using industrial waste as raw material
10th week: Technological processes of solidification and stabilization of industrial waste material
11th week: Physico - chemical characterization methods of waste
12th week: Hydration and optimization of additives in cement matrix
13th week: Methods of testing new building products with addition of industrial waste - use value
14th week: Methods of testing new products with industrial waste - ecological
acceptability - leaching tests
15th week: Final comments, discussion , conclusions. Assessment (2nd colloquium).
Laboratory exercises :
Exercise 1 Determination of heavy metals in the waste motor oil.
Exercise 2 Solidification and stabilization of mud from the galvanizing plant .
Exercise 3 Recovery of building materials - concrete, brick and glass .
Exercise 4 Analysis of cement kiln dust and usability.
Exercise 5 Recovery of saturated zeolite .
Exercise 6 Leaching tests of soil and ashes from the furnace

Format of instruction:

Student responsibilities

Attending lectures in the amount of 80 %, and laboratory exercises in the amount of 100 % of the total number of lessons.