COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOLID WASTES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÇEV 3571 SOLID WASTES COMPULSORY 3 2 0 4

Offered By

Environmental Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÖRKEM AKINCI

Offered to

Environmental Engineering

Course Objective

It is necessary for the students who take the course to identify the solid wastes originating from the municipal (domestic, industrial, medical, hazardous etc.) and private (mining activities, agriculture and animal husbandry activities etc.), to determine the required sampling and required analyzes to determine the characteristics of these wastes, to be capable of carrying out the necessary feasibility study during design, manufacture and / or control, capable of carrying out the necessary feasibility studies, capable of identifying and specifying appropriate technologies for waste reduction, reuse, recovery and / or conversion or control by physical or chemical / biochemical (including thermal technologies) This course is aimed at educating engineers to operate this system.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   List general and specific characteristics of solid wastes, classify wastes, indicate changes under various conditions, determine necessary analysis for technology selection for waste evaluation
2   Discuss appropriate disposal technologies by taking advantage of the physical-chemical-biological properties and quantities of wastes, select appropriate technologies and combinations of them by considering them according to economic criteria
3   Analyze the information and data in the hand, and then discuss the appropriate existing technologies in accordance with the legislation.
4   Can make current and prospective calculations about waste management, process data, relate information, decide on management system, prepare system project and perform preliminary design (capacity, area, volume, etc.).
5   As a result of the discussions following the data, knowledge can plan a project by integrating them, designing the components of the project that it plans.
6   Defend the projects he has designed and designed and he can be judged by comparing different projects.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, solid waste sources, domestic waste components, waste characteristics (quantity, physical chemical / biological essence), change and affecting factors Project work - Identification of project groups - Assignment of project fields - introduction to the project
2 Waste parameters, waste chemistry, pH, Eh, heavy metals, TOC, DTOC, KOI, BOI, eluate, etc. Which affects the choice of basic solid waste technologies Introduction to conventional technologies Laboratory work - Analysis of general solid waste parameters, Model installation
3 Laws and regulations, limit values, quota Collection and transport of wastes, economic and geographical constraints related to them, transfer stations, recovery Project Work-Project 1 Control- Consultation Assignment- Legislation 1
4 Composting technology, biochemistry, legal legislation, feasibility Laboratory work-Quality and stability parameters
5 Storage areas, anaerobic biochemical transformation, VFA-COD-CH4 conversion-energy element, feasibility, Related legislation Project Work - Determination criteria Assignment- Legislation 2, Application case study
6 Design principles in composting and storage technologies Project work - design parameters
7 Midterm Exam Solutions of Exam Questions
8 Leachate formation, flow rate, collection, treatment, recirculation, Carbon loss, time-dependent changes in properties, Laboratory - Characteristic parameters in leachate
9 Combustion and pyrolysis technologies, gasification, mass and energy balance, emissions and products, Legal Legislation Project Work - Project 2. Control - Consultation
10 Anaerobic digestion, feasibility, agricultural and animal wastes, energy balance Laboratory work - Product and intermediate product analysis in model systems (VFA-COD-CH4)
11 Midterm Exam Solutions of Exam Questions
12 Mine wastes, properties, classification, legislation Assignment- Legislation 3, Application case study Lab study - AP and NP tests, standard and dynamic leaching tests, introduction of kinetic test models
13 Agricultural and animal wastes, food industry wastes, types, characteristics, processing and disposal technologies Project work- Consultation
14 Project presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Katı Atık Yönetimi ve Teknolojileri, Thomas H. Christiensen, 2017, Nobel Yayınevi
Integrated Solid Waste Managementi Tchobanoglous et al., 1993, McGraw-Hill Int. Editions.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

After the students are told about the factors affecting the sources, basic characteristics and the variability of the solid wastes, they are asked to identify the characteristics of the municipal / domestic wastes belonging to a residental area / region / country and the elements that determine these changes. Following this stage, waste amount calculation, collection-transportation organization, solid waste recycling, evaluation and disposal technologies and related basic legislation are introduced. Students are expected to produce appropriate data for the project site by using other necessary information gathering, data acquisition, or other regional data on similar conditions. It is desirable for students to compare this data processing and the possible technologies for the site in question, taking advantage of scientific and economic realities. The design principles of the described technologies and other important decision-making mechanisms are conveyed. It is expected that the technology that the students decide will make the site selection and preliminary design.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 LAB LABORATORY
3 PRJ PROJECT
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + LAB * 0.15 + PRJ * 0.15 + FIN * 0.40
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + LAB * 0.15 + PRJ * 0.15 + RST * 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1- Knowledge of the properties and composition of wastes will be learned in laboratory studies and they will learn what analyzes need to be done to examine possible technologies.

LO 2- The project will evaluate the data obtained in the laboratory during the project work and will enable the technologies to make choices by taking economic criteria, amount of waste and limit values into consideration.

LO 3- learn how to use the information obtained during the project and laboratory work in comparison with the possible technologies. The information obtained about legislation and current practices through the workshops will also help in the evaluation of the technologies.

LO 4- It is aimed to decide the final components of the system and to make preliminary design by reviewing the possible technologies determined during the project works, taking into account the future changes in the amount of waste and its composition.
LO 5-can plan and pre-design the system for the management of a settled solid waste through the achievements obtained during lab, homework and project works
LO 6- Experience in project presentation, laboratory model studies and monitoring projects of other groups to defend and discuss projects
1st midterm, 2nd midterm and final exams and homework, project and laboratory work output will be used as a scale to fulfill the LO. Lab work will be prompted for reporting.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Continuous attendance in the course, laboratory, project is expected

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Doç. Dr. Görkem AKINCI,DEÜ Çevre MühendisliğiBölümü, Tınaztepe Kampüs, 35390 Buca, Izmir, gorkem.akinci@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

will be determined according to work load

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Tutorials 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 0,5 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 3 3
Preparation for final exam 1 4 4
Preparing presentations 1 2 2
Lab Preparation 5 2 10
Preparation for tutorial exam 5 0,5 5
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
Practical exam 5 0,5 5
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 110

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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