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Course code: OŹES10065f16Semester: 2016/2017 winter
Name: Fuels from waste
Major: Renewable Energy and Waste Management
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 5
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. inż. Andrzej Białowiec
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: Student has knowledge in range of chemistry, biochemistry, and microbiology, necessary for understanding processes of biological, mechanical, and thermal conversion of waste into fuels: R1 OŹE _W03; R1A_W01; Student has knowledge in range of biofuels, and waste reuse processes, including municipal waste, industrial, waste, agricultural waste, and animal waste: R1 OŹE _W04, R1A_W03, R1A_W04; Student has general knowledge covering systems, technologies, techniques, devices, and tools used for fuels production from waste: R1 OŹE _W11, R1A_W05, InzA_W05 Skills: Student can extract information data from literature review, data bases, and other sources; can integrate gathered information, may do the theirs interpretations, summaries, and put an opinions with justification: R1OZE_U01, R1A_U01, R1A_U03, InzA_U01 Student can do the identification, and characterizes the specificity of simple engineering tasks, prepares a technical documentation concerning engineering task execution, and prepares the report containing the description of results from task execution: R1OŹE _U03, R1A_U04, InzA_U06 Student can use basic informatics technologies for extracting, and processing of information concerning production of fuels from waste: R1OŹE _U04, R1A_U03 Student can prepare, and perform a short presentation concerning a results of executed engineering task, which relays on proper design of devices, and resources for construction of particular technology of fuels production from waste: R1OŹE _U05, R1A_U09 Student has skills of self-teaching for increasing the professional competences: R1OŹE _U08 Student can solve engineering, and operation problems of fuels production from waste by using standards engineering procedures, including environmental requirements: R1OŹE _U11, R1A_U05, R1A_U06, InzA_U03, InzA_U08 Student, under supervision, can do a simple research, and design tasks considering fuels production from waste: R1OŹE _U12, R1A_U04, InzA_U01, InzA_U08
Competences: Social competences: Student understands the need, and know the possibilities of permanent self-teaching (study of IInd, and IIIrd degree, post-graduate study, courses), increasing of professional, personal, and social competences: R1OŹE _K01, R1A_K01, R1A_K07 Student has concise of importance, responsibility, and results of the activity of an engineer of renewable energy sources, and waste management course, in aspect of responsibility of people life quality, and natural environment state: R1OŹE _K02, R1A_K06, Inz_K01 Student has concise of responsibility for own work and for acceptation of following of team working rules, and of taking the responsibilities for mutually executed tasks: R1OŹE _K04, R1A_K02
Prerequisites: Knowledge in the field of: microorganisms development, and life cycle, factors affecting the ration of biochemical processes, physical, chemical, and biological waste properties, waste classification, waste processing classification, possibilities of waste recycling achievement.
Course content: The definitions, and kinds of fuels, definitions of waste processing methods, waste properties in relations to fuel production, technologies and processes of gaseous fuels production from waste: fermentation, pyrolysis, gasification, gas fuels treatment, technologies and processes of liquid fuels production from waste: pyrolysis, technologies and processes of solid fuels production from waste: pyrolysis, torrefaction, mechanical treatment, fuels: SRF, RDF, market of fuels from waste.
Recommended literature: Bilitewski B., Härdtle G., Marek K., Podręcznik gospodarki odpadami. Teoria i praktyka, Wydawnictwo Seidel-Przywecki Sp. z o.o., Warszawa 2003/2006. Wandrasz J.W., Wandrasz A.J., Paliwa formowane, Wydawnictwo Seidel, Przywecki, Warszawa 2006. Jędrczak A, 2007, Biologiczne przetwarzanie odpadów, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa. Law regulations (directives, regulations) - http://isip.sejm.gov.pl/prawo/index.html Guidelines, authorities reports - http://www.mos.gov.pl/kategoria/197_odpady/ Proffessional journals – Przegląd Komunalny, Recykling, Odpady Komunalne, Czysta energia Scientific journals – Applied energy, Waste management, Waste management and research, Fuel, Bioresource technology, Biomass and bioenergy, Journal of Analytical, and Applied Pyrolysis, …
Assessment methods: Lectures: passing all exams, Exercises: completing all projects
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