RESOURCE RECOVERY FROM WASTE
RECUPERO DI RISORSE DAI RIFIUTI
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2022/2023 | 6 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Fabio Tatano | At the end of the lectures and/or on request. |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course aims to illustrate the technical-scientific fundamentals on the recovery of (material and energy) resourses from (municipal and special) waste. The course is properly organized in the perspective of the environmental and territorial implementation of the sustainable and circular economy.
Program
· Sustainability, UN SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), circular economy, sustainable use of resources, primary and secondary raw materials.
· Integrated, sustainable, and circular waste management: definitions and typologies (residential, commercial and institutional, industrial, agricultural waste), compositional analysis, characterization (approaches and methods), generation, EU and IT strategies and regulations.
· Prevention and preparing for reuse of waste.
· Material recovery from waste: separate collection (systems and organization), mechanical treatment (unit processes), composting of biomass and organic waste, recycling of paper/cardboard, plastic, glass, metals, and waste electric and electronical equipment, urban mining.
· Energy recovery from waste: biomethane (by anaerobic digestion) and other biofuels from biomass and organic waste, biochemical methane potential tests at lab-scale, thermal treatments (incineration, pyrolysis, and gasification), solid fuels from waste.
· Management of unsorted residual municipal waste: mechanical-biological treatment (biostabilization and biodrying).
· Landfilling in the integrated management of waste: concepts and challenges, landfill gas (generation, collection, and energy recovery), monitoring of landfill gas diffuse emissions with the accumulation chamber method, landfill mining.
· Management and recovery of construction and demolition waste.
· Challenges of waste management and climate change mitigation.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lectures.
- Course books
"Schemes of Lessons" (in Italian) and possible "Handouts" distributed during the course (inside the Moodle platform).
Recommended reading:
- Christensen T.H. (Ed.), 2010, Solid waste technology and management, Volumes 1 and 2, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, UK.
- De Feo G., De Gisi S., Galasso M., 2021, Rifiuti solidi. Progettazione e gestione di impianti per il trattamento e lo smaltimento, Prima ristampa, Dario Flaccovio Editore, Palermo.
- Grosso M., Montani M.C., 2015, Dove vanno a finire i nostri rifiuti? La scienza di riciclare, gestire, smaltire gli scarti, Collana Chiavi di Lettura (a cura di Vozza L.), Zanichelli Editore, Bologna.
- Serranti S. (a cura di), 2022, Scienze della sostenibilità. Energia, Risorse, Città, Acqua, Ecosistemi, Diritto, Zanichelli Editore, Bologna.
- Assessment
The assessment of learning requires an oral test to verify the student's preparation to address thematic issues regarding the material and/or energy recovery from diversified tipologies of waste.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
The same of attending students.
- Course books
"Schemes of Lessons" (in Italian) and possible "Handouts" distributed during the course (inside the Moodle platform).
Recommended reading:
- Christensen T.H. (Ed.), 2010, Solid waste technology and management, Volumes 1 and 2, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, UK.
- De Feo G., De Gisi S., Galasso M., 2021, Rifiuti solidi. Progettazione e gestione di impianti per il trattamento e lo smaltimento, Prima ristampa, Dario Flaccovio Editore, Palermo.
- Grosso M., Montani M.C., 2015, Dove vanno a finire i nostri rifiuti? La scienza di riciclare, gestire, smaltire gli scarti, Collana Chiavi di Lettura (a cura di Vozza L.), Zanichelli Editore, Bologna.
- Serranti S. (a cura di), 2022, Scienze della sostenibilità. Energia, Risorse, Città, Acqua, Ecosistemi, Diritto, Zanichelli Editore, Bologna.
- Assessment
The assessment of learning requires an oral test to verify the student's preparation to address thematic issues regarding the material and/or energy recovery from diversified tipologies of waste.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
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