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Course details
Course code: OŹES10087f14
Semester: 2014/2015 summer
Name: Recovery and recycling of selected waste flows
Major: Renewable Energy and Waste Management
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 6
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: Dr inż. Jan den Boer
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Knowledge: He has expertise in the field of chemistry, biochemistry, and biology necessary to understand the processes taking place at the time of obtaining energy from the products and precipitation plant and animal origin and other renewable energy sources. He has expertise in biofuels and biomass processes, including waste biomass from agricultural and animal. He has a general knowledge of systems, technologies, techniques, equipment and tools used in the production of energy from renewable sources. Skills: Can obtain information from literature, databases and other sources, is able to integrate the information, make their interpretation, as well as draw conclusions and formulate and justify opinions. Can using basic technologies to acquire and process information in the field of renewable energy and waste management. Able to prepare and present a short presentation on the results of the engineering task involving the selection of the appropriate equipment or means of accomplishing the given technology. He can solve based on the standard of production, technical and operational problems in the field of waste management and renewable energy sources, taking into account the requirements for care of the environment. Can under supervision perform simple tasks, research and design in the area of waste management and renewable energy sources.

Competences: Competences: Understands the need to know the capabilities and continuous training (studies II and III degree, postgraduate courses) - raising professional competence, personal and social. Is aware of the importance, responsibility and consequences of engineering activities towards renewable energy sources and waste management in terms of responsibility for the quality of life for people and the environment.

Prerequisites: Physics, Chemistry

Course content: The course deals with the recycling and other forms of recovery of various types of municipal waste: Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), waste batteries, tyres, glass, paper. The legal situation as well as the waste management systems existing in Poland and in the European Union will be discussed. Introduction to ‘Design for Recycling/Design for ReUse’.

Recommended literature: 1. Zarządzanie gospodarką odpadami : gospodarowanie odpadami ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem zużytych opon, sprzętu elektronicznego i elektrycznego, osadów ściekowych / Sergiusz Zabawa, Poznań : Polskie Zrzeszenie Inżynierów i Techników Sanitarnych. Oddział Wielkopolski, 2009. 2. Zużyty sprzęt elektryczny i elektroniczny. Aspekty funkcjonowania system zagospodarowywania ZSEE w Polsce i innych krajach europejskich oraz wybrane technologie przetwarzania odpadów elektrycznych i elektronicznych / Ireneusz Baic et al., Warszawa, Instytut Mechanizacji Budownictwa i Górnictwa Skalnego, 2011. 3. Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) handbook / V Goodship, A Stevels, Woodhead Publishing Limited, Cambridge, UK 4. Podręcznik gospodarki odpadami : teoria i praktyka / Bernd Bilitewski, Georg Härdtle, Klaus Marek; Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Seidel-Przywecki, 2006. 5. Ökobilanzieller Vergleich zweier Verwertungsalternativen für Altreifen: Stoffliche Verwertung und Mitverbrennung im Zementofen / Ioannis Bakas et al. , Genan Business & Development A/S 2009

Assessment methods: Assessment of education effects in terms of knowledge: credit of written exam, credit of all tutorials. Assessment of education effects in terms of skills: results analysis and interpretation of collected data. Assessment of education effects in terms of social competences: individual work, group wrok, ecological consciousness, copyrights respect, responsibility for entrusted task, conscientiousness in the preparations for task realization.

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