Course Aim
Based on a variety of potential monitoring strategies, course participants learn to draft waste treatment facilities for municipal waste streams in the first part of the course. Special focus is laid on data acquisition and the influence of varying boundary conditions (f.i. legislative and financial factors) on the amounts, fractions and composition of waste streams. Using prognosis models, facilities for the treatment of residual and biodegradable waste are being planned and investigated regarding their functionality and suitability using flow diagrams, mass balancing and the dimensioning of the plant area.
In a second part of the course, major landfill emissions and the dealing with their hazardous potential are being discussed according to the current state of the art. Students learn to plan landfill quality management as well as to control trial fields to test the functionality of landfill sealing systems. Altogether, the course participants learn to plan and evaluate various landfill systems under differing conditions.