COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HAZARDOUS WASTES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ENV 4326 HAZARDOUS WASTES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Environmental Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR DENIZ DÖLGEN

Offered to

Environmental Engineering

Course Objective

The course will include a description, definition and magnitude of hazardous waste problem. Risk assessment and risk management. Environmental legislation, hazardous waste characterization and site assessment, waste minimization and resource recovery. Chemical, physical and biological treatment. Thermal processes (incineration), transportation of hazardous wastes, ground water contamination, landfill disposal, injection well disposal and finally site remediation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Defining the hazardous waste concept and relations with other wastes
2   Knowing the waste transformation and minimising
3   Knowing the waste treatment techniques
4   Defining the advantages and disadvantages of thermal tratment applications
5   Knowing the ecological effects of hazardous waste storage area
6   Knowing the remediation of the polluted area

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Hazardous Wastes
2 Description of Hazardous Substance & Hazardous Wastes, Sources & Classification of Hazardous Wastes
3 Genereal Chem. & Organic Chem, Environmental Chemical Process, Biochemistry and Toxicology, Chemical Perspectives of Hazards
4 Chemistry of Inorganic and Organic Hazardous Wastes and Their Toxicology
5 Assesement of Exposure Potential: Transport Process
6 Physical Waste Treatment Process: Phase transation, filtration, sedimentation, particle removal, membrane processes, sorption, distillation and strippng, draying and evaporation and extraction
7 Chemical Waste Treatment Process; acid-base neutralization, precipitation, floculation, oxidation-reduction, electrolysis
8 (cont.); chemical extraction and leaching, ion exchange, destruction, photolytic reaction, reaction with water
9 Biological Treatment Process: biodegradation, aerobic and anaerobic treatment, composting and land treatment, bacterial destruction of PCBs
10 Thermal Treatment and Incineration Process; thermal treatment methods, incerable wastes, types of incinerators, soil incineration, emissions, wet air oxidation
11 Reduction, Recycling and Resource Recovery and Waste Elimination Options, Immobilization, Fixation and Disposal
12 Deep well injections and ground water pollution
13 Presentation
14 Presentation

Recomended or Required Reading

TEXTBOOK:
1. Hazardous Waste Management, Michael D. LaGrega, P. L. Buckingham, J. C. Evans, McGraw-Hill Book Comp., 2008, USA
2. Hazardous and Industrial Waste Treatment,
Charles N. HAAS, Richard J. VAMOS, Prentice-Hall Inc., 1995, USA
3. Hazardous Waste Chemistry, Toxicology and Treatment
Stanley E. MANAHAN, Lewis Publishers, Inc., 1990, USA
4. Hazardous Waste Management, Charles A. WENTZ, McGraw-Hill Book Comp., 1989, USA
5. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry; Donlad G. Crosby, Oxford Univ. Press Inc, 1998, USA
6. Impact Assessement of Hazardous Aquatic Contaminants, Salem S. Rao, CRC Press LLC Lewis Publishers, 1999, USA
7. e-books (more than 100)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, preparing the research paper, measuring with examinations

Assessment Methods

To be announced!

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

Annunces at the begining of semester

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 2 2
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Preparing assignments 2 6 12
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 65

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.1354
LO.2354
LO.3354
LO.4354
LO.5354
LO.6354

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