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Waste geochemistry - MG431P17E
Title: Waste geochemistry
Czech title: Geochemie odpadů
Guaranteed by: Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Mineral Resources (31-430)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2024
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Vojtěch Ettler, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): prof. RNDr. Vojtěch Ettler, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Waste management and legislation of EU and Czech Republic, normative tests for waste assessment.
Metallurgical wastes (slag, matte), processing technology, mineralogy and crystal chemistry, natural weathering processes, liberation of heavy metals and other contaminants and their mobility, reuse of slags for civil engineering purposes.
Municipal solid waste incinerator (MSWI) bottom ash, mineralogy and stability of major phases, contaminant liberation, maturation processes, technologies of stabilization, reuse.
Air pollution control (APC) residues, treatment of flue gas, mineralogy and crystal chemistry of fly-ash, dissolution of major mineral compounds, treatment, stabilization/solidification.
Tailings and other mine waste, acid mine drainage (AMD) concept, chemistry of acid mine waters, mobility of heavy metals, remediation techniques.
Municipal waste, collection and valorization, landfills, contamination of groundwater by landfill plumes, heavy metals and organic compounds, attenuation processes in landfill leachate, redox zones, construction of modern landfills, geomembranes, geosynthetic clay liners (GCL).
Nuclear waste, containment, stability of nuclear glasses, analogues of nuclear waster, repositiories.

Journals:
Waste Management (Elsevier Science)
Journal of Contaminant Hydrology (Elsevier Science)
Environmental Geology (Springer Verlag)

D. Langmuir (1997): Aqueous environmental geochemistry, Prentice Hall.
Last update: Rubešová Jana, RNDr., Ph.D. (10.11.2006)
Literature - Czech

Journals: Waste Management, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Applied Geochemistry (Elsevier), Waste Management and Research (Sage Publishing)
Literature and PDFs of the presentations are available in Moodle.

Last update: Ettler Vojtěch, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (23.02.2024)
Requirements to the exam - Czech
Test (5 open questions)
Last update: Ettler Vojtěch, prof. RNDr., Ph.D. (23.02.2024)
Syllabus -

Waste management and legislation of EU and Czech Republic, normative tests for waste assessment.

Metallurgical wastes (slag, matte), processing technology, mineralogy and crystal chemistry, natural weathering processes, liberation of heavy metals and other contaminants and their mobility, reuse of slags for civil engineering purposes.

Municipal solid waste incinerator (MSWI) bottom ash, mineralogy and stability of major phases, contaminant liberation, maturation processes, technologies of stabilization, reuse.

Air pollution control (APC) residues, treatment of flue gas, mineralogy and crystal chemistry of fly-ash, dissolution of major mineral compounds, treatment, stabilization/solidification.

Tailings and other mine waste, acid mine drainage (AMD) concept, chemistry of acid mine waters, mobility of heavy metals, remediation techniques.

Municipal waste, collection and valorization, landfills, contamination of groundwater by landfill plumes, heavy metals and organic compounds, attenuation processes in landfill leachate, redox zones, construction of modern landfills, geomembranes, geosynthetic clay liners (GCL).

Nuclear waste, containment, stability of nuclear glasses, analogues of nuclear waster, repositiories.

Journals:

Waste Management (Elsevier Science)

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology (Elsevier Science)

Environmental Geology (Springer Verlag)

D. Langmuir (1997): Aqueous environmental geochemistry, Prentice Hall.

Last update: Rubešová Jana, RNDr., Ph.D. (10.11.2006)
 
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