Exercises in Waste Management

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Course objectives

Students will be introduced with the basic principles of waste management and enable them to independently solve the problem of waste management in practice. Students will learn practically procedures for getting new products from the corresponding organic waste, and calculate the yield of the process. In the field works students will learn about work of landfills and waste treatment in a waste treatment companies.

Course enrolment requirements and entry competences required for the course

Enrolled in or passed the cours Waste Management

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

After completion of the training, students are expected to know:
- Classified solid waste in appropriate category.
- Select appropriate treatment of solid waste.
- Calculate the efficiency of the waste treatment processes in order to obtain useful products.
- Describe different procedures for the solid waste treatment and characteristics of landfills.

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

1. Beneficial use of citrus peel
2. Ethanol production by distillation of fermenting grape pomace.
3. Production of Ca-tartarate.
4. Processing of recycling paper
5. Field work in the landfill Carepovac
6. Field work in the company Cijan d.d.

Format of instruction:

Student responsibilities

laboratory exercises, field work, writing reports

Optional literature (at the time of submission of study programme proposal)

Quality assurance methods that ensure the acquisition of exit competences

Keeping records of student attendance; student survey in order to evaluate teachers, self-evaluation of teachers, feedback from students who have already graduated to relevance of curriculum.

Other (as the proposer wishes to add)