Course Aim
The students have the competence to solve, present and defend a planning task in the field of technical infrastructure under guidance.
General Information
- Course responsability: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eckhard Kraft
- Compulsory course within the specialisation Waste management: 6 ECTS with 5 SWS
- The course is held in each winter semester.
- Examination: Written exam 120 minutes
Course Content
The course focuses on:
- Waste generation, amounts and composition,
- Relation between socio-economic aspects in waste management,
- Waste management structures,
- Technical systems for waste collection and transport.
Further, the course teaches basic notions on, as well as technical concepts and first draft dimensioning of plants treating waste mechanically and/or biologically. Planning tools such as mass balancing and the calculation of emission potentials and costs of treatment plants are being discussed.
Detailed dealing with the topic of biological waste treatment covers:
- Technical solutions for anaerobic and aerobic biological processes,
- Bioreactors with suited and adapted bioprocess kinetics,
- Parameters and monitoring strategies for bioreactors,
- Mass balancing,
- Biological processes in landfills.
Finally, theoretical basics are being illustrated together with practical examples at technical scale.
Literature
- Kranert, M. (Hrsg.) (2010): Einführung in die Abfallwirtschaft, Vieweg+Teubner Verlag / Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
- Bischofsberger, W. (Hrsg.) (2005): Anaerobtechnik. Springer Verlag, Berlin.