Food Industry Waste Engineering

NAME OF THE COURSE

Code

KTK315

Year of study

Course teacher

Prof Maja Kliškić
Prof Senka Gudić

Credits (ECTS)

4.0

Associate teachers

Assoc Prof Ivana Smoljko

Type of instruction (number of hours)

P	S	V	T
30	0	10	5

Status of the course

Elective

Percentage of application of e-learning

0 %

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course objectives

After completed course students will have acquired knowledge about food industry waste management, current food process waste regulations and disposal practices and understanding of waste beneficial reuse and bio-processing.

Course enrolment requirements and entry competences required for the course

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

After completed course students will be able to:
- identify the diverse types of waste generated by various branches of the food industry,
- interpret environmental protection laws and regulations related to food industry waste,
- present methods for the treatment of waste from food processing industry,
- present principles and methods of recycling waste from food processing industry present possibilities of waste energy utilization.

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

1st week: Food industry waste. Technological, economic and social aspects of disposal and/or utilization of wastes.
2nd week: Laws and regulations related to environmental protection considering food industry waste.
3rd week: Waste management; health and safety policies and procedures.
4th week: Waste disposal. Types of landfills, safety and activities at landfill.
5th week: Development of optimized systems for the treatment of food industry waste.
6th week: Principles and methods of recycling waste of the food industry - sanitary landfills, composting.
7th week: Incineration and pyrolysis.
8th week: New technologies.
First test.
9th week: Development and application of biological methods for the recovery of organic waste and byproducts.
10th week: Waste energy utilization; waste as alternative fuel, generation of heat energy.
11th week: Generation of electricity. Biogas.
12th week: Biomass as a source of energy.
13th week: Technologies of converting biomass into energy.
14th week: Hydrogen as a fuel – biohydrogen. Hydrogen production processes from biomass and biodegradable waste.
15th week: Hydrogen production processes from biomass and biodegradable waste.
Second test.
Exercises: Reuse/recycle citrus peels. Ethanol production by distillation of fermented grape pomace. Calcium tartrate production. Fieldwork at the Karepovac landfill. Fieldwork at the Cijan d.o.o. company.

Format of instruction:

Student responsibilities

Lecture attendance: 80 %. Exercises attendance: 100 %. Field work attendance: 100 %.

Screening student work (name the proportion of ECTS credits for eachactivity so that the total number of ECTS credits is equal to the ECTS value of the course):

Class attendance	1.0	Research	Practical training	1.0
Experimental work	0.0	Report
Essay	0.0	Seminar essay
Tests	2.0	Oral exam
Written exam	0.0	Project

Grading and evaluating student work in class and at the final exam

The entire course can be passed by two partial exams during the semester. Passing threshold is 60%. Each partial exam in assessing participates with 40% and exercises and field work with 20%. On examination shedule students will have oral exam. Scoring: - 60% insufficient, 61 - 69% - sufficient (2), 70 - 79% - good (3), 80-89% very good (4), 90 - 100% - excellent (5).

Required literature (available in the library and via other media)

Title	Number of copies in the library	Availability via other media
G. Tchobanoglous, F. Kreith, Handbook of Solid Waste Menagement (2nd ed.), McGraw-Hill, New York, 2002.	1
I. S. Arvanitoyannis, Waste Management for the Food Industries, Academic Press, 2007.	1

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

L. K. Wang, Y.-T. Hung, H. H. Lo, C. Yapijakis, Waste Treatment in the Food Processing Industry, CRC Press, 2005.
M. Kliškić, Kruti otpad i recikliranje, Upute za vježbe, Kemijsko-tehnološki fakultet u Splitu, Split 2000.

Quality assurance methods that ensure the acquisition of exit competences

Quality of the teaching and learning, monitored at the level of the (1) teachers, accepting suggestions of students and colleagues, and (2) faculty, conducting surveys of students on teaching quality.

Other (as the proposer wishes to add)