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Municipal Solid Waste Management 

At a Glance

Instructors:

Professors:
A. Kungolos (AUTH)
K.L. Katsifarakis (AUTH)


Tutors:
S. Bagjouk (AUTH)
Ch. Emmanuil (AUTH)
M. Samolada (AUTH)
M. Petala (AUTH)

Duration:

10 weeks

4 ECTS

Mode:

completely online

About the course

The lectures covered the following topics:
  • Municipal solid wastes’ quantity and quality characteristics
  • Composition and generation rate of solid wastes
  • Prevention and reduction of solid waste. Waste collection bins
  • Collection vehicles
  • Transfer stations
  • Municipal and local collection of solid wastes
  • Recycling
  • Selective collection and reuse
  • Mechanical sorting
  • Hand sorting
  • Thermal treatment of solid waste
  • Biological treatment of solid waste
  • Energy recovery
  • Criteria for selection of landfill sites and of solid waste transfer stations sites
  • Landfill sites design and operation
  • Landfill gas management
  • Leachate control. 

Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will...
  • understand the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of municipal solid waste.
  • learn about the systems for the collection and transportation of municipalsolid waste.
  • understand the basic principles of management and utilization of municipal solid waste in combination with the legal requirements for their minimization, recycling, reuse, thermal and biological treatment.
  • learn the basic principles for the selection, construction and operation of solid waste disposal sites, their restoration, as well as the management of leachate and the landfill-gas.

Fostered Competences

  • problem-solving
  • interdisciplinary collaboration
  • critical reflection

Interdisciplinarity

  • The topic was interdisciplinary: Dealing with different engineering aspects. Moreover, it included financial and social parameters, as well.

  • Instruction was interdisciplinary:  The group of instructors included one Civil Engineer, one Architect, 3 Chemical Engineers and one member of the School of Spatial Planning and Development.

  • The student group was interdisciplinary: Probably with too few students with engineering background (or with engineering orientation).

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Last edited: 26. Oct 2022, 10:42, Klose, Stefanie [sk1229@uni-freiburg.de]