Physical and Chemical Processes in Recycling Course code: 181417 | 6 ECTS credits
Basic information
Level of Studies:
Year of Study:
2
Semester:
3
Requirements:
None.
Goal:
The adoption of basic knowledge on the physical and chemical characteristics of recyclable materials, students can independently monitor the engineering, material and energy flows in recycling technologies.
Outcome:
Acquisition of engineering knowledge necessary for further training in the recycling field of metals, non-metals, polymers, composites. Introduction to process-technological aspects of obtaining useful components from waste, by- products and secondary raw materials.
Contents of the course
Theoretical instruction:
- The aim and importance of recycling. Recycling and sustainable development.
- Collection, sorting and preparation of waste for processing. Material and energy balance.
- Blending and separation. Metallurgical processing.
- Recycle batteries and accumulators.
- Specific flows of electrical and electronic waste.
- Hazardous and radioactive waste.
- Recycling of glass, ceramics and construction materials.
- Recycle poly (vinyl chloride).
- Recycling of polystyrene. Recycles ABS.
- Recycling of polyamide.
- Reticulation of thermosetting polymers.
- Recycling of tires and other rubber products.
- Recycling of paper and cardboard.
- Recycling of packaging materials.
- Economic and environmental aspects of recycling.
Practical instruction (Problem solving sessions/Lab work/Practical training):
- Basic chemical operations and separation methods, condensed state, chemical kinetics and equilibrium, electron transfer reactions, tour of the recycling plant for electronic waste.
Textbooks and References
- Hodolič J. i dr., Reciklaža i reciklažne tehnologije , Fakultet tehničkih nauka, Novi Sad, 2011.
- Lund, H.F., Recycling Handbook, 2nd Edition,”, McGraw-Hill, 2000.
- C.P. Rader, S.D. Baldwin, D.D. Cornell, G.D. Sadler, R.F. Stockel, Eds., Plastics, Rubber and Paper Recycling: A Pragmatic Approach, ACS Symposium Series 609, ACS, Washington D.C., 1995
- Rao, S.R., Resource Recovery and Recycling from Metallurgical Wastes, ELSEVIER, 2006.
- A. Jokić, Interna skripta Fizičko-hemijske karakteristike reciklažnog materijala
Number of active classes (weekly)
Lectures:
3
Practical classes:
2
Other types of classes:
0
Grading (maximum number of points: 100)
Pre-exam obligations
Points
activities during lectures
10
activities on practial excersises
0
seminary work
20
colloquium
20
Final exam
Points
Written exam
50
Oral exam
0