ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code: IISS20285o17Semester: 2017/2018 summer
Name: Landfills Capping and Restoration
Major: Environmental Engineering
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 3
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Andrzej Pawłowski
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course taught in English if the group has ≥6 students. The course taught in Polish with a possibility of support in English if the group has <6 students - Contact person: dr inż. Andrzej Pawłowski
Learning outcomes: Student has ordered knowledge of the fundamental aspects of technical, technological, environmental, legal and economic issues associated with the rehabilitation of landfills and devastated areas and the production of biomass for energy purposes Skills student is able to develop the concept of technical and biological landfill or brownfields reclamation; knows how to distinguish and choose the plants species, which are to be used in the restoration and production of biomass for energy purposes
Competences: Student is aware of the necessity to follow the progress of science and technology in solving problems relating to the protection and development of the environment, understand the need to inform the public on different aspects of engineering activity
Prerequisites: soils mechanic, waste management, waste landfills
Course content: Course presents various aspects of landfills reclamation. Discusses the law issues, technical solutions landfill cappingl, the necessary infrastructure in the after-closure phase, principles of monitoring. Reclamation of old dumps and landfills that do not meet current environmental standards are presented, too. Course content: The concept of reclamation, its objectives, scope and directions. The problem of old landfills. Legal aspects of reclamation. The materials used in reclamation. Landfill closure. Assurance of slopes stability. Protection against erosion - biological cover. Geotechnical problems of reclamation. Leachate and landfill gas in the after-closure phase. Biological reclamation in mining of coal and lignite .. Preparation and acquisition of soils, waste use for reclamation. Selection and introduction of vegetation. Plants succession phases. Pioneering plants. Bioindicators. Care and maintenance of the terrain. Monitoring.
Recommended literature: 1. Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste 2. Environmental Engineering. Sixth Edition. John Willey & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2009 3. LaMoreaux P.E. and others: Environmental Hydrogeology, Second Edition CRC Press, Taylor&Francis Group, , 2009 4.https://www.epa.ie/pubs/advice/waste/waste/EPA_landfill_site_design_guide.pdf 5. www.landfillsdesign.com
Assessment methods: Score of project of landfill restoration, written or oral exam after first semester.
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