Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Engineering principles of sistematic development of waste managment systems (17.Z516)

Type of studies	Title
Master Academic Studies	Environmental engineering (Year: 1, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Environment Protection Engineering
ECTS	5

The objective of the course is to acquire knowledge on the application of material flow analysis as an advanced approach for designing, analyzing, evaluating and comparing solid waste management systems and resources at the levels of the state, region, city and plant. The main goal is to acquire knowledge on systemic modeling of waste and resource management, as well as to predict the behavior of the analyzed systems depending on the proposed or implemented technological or technical changes.

Acquiring basic knowledge in the field of application of material flow analysis in the selection of technological and technical solutions for waste management and resources as a basis for adequate environmental management. The basic outcome of education involves training students through the acquisition of necessary knowledge for independent analysis, development and evaluation of the waste and resource management system; the student acquires a sufficient level of competence for recognizing the main ecological problems in the developed systems and implementing technical and technological changes through engineering analysis.

Theoretical lessons: Basic concepts of the principles of systemic modeling of waste and resource management systems, connection between waste management and resources, connection between waste streams during the collection, transport, treatment and waste collection process, as well as the use, collection, transport, recycling of resources. Application of material flow analysis for modeling. Application of available software packages and possibilities of their application for modeling. Possibility to apply the results obtained in order to improve the solid waste management and resource management system. Case study from practice and case studies of advanced modeling methods related to waste management and resource management issues. Practical classes: analysis with software packages for conducting material flow analysis in solid waste management systems as well as in resource management systems, analysis of case studies elaborated during lectures, computational tasks, model development for selected problem. Students work on subject projects, under the mentorship of the subject teacher. Subject projects are done in the area defined by the subject curriculum, they are based on real examples and problems with the establishment of direct economy contact.

Lecturing is organized through lectures and computer exercises with full student participation. The lectures present the theoretical part of the material, followed by appropriate examples from practice, for easier understanding and adoption of the material. During exercisess, students solve practical problems in order to comprehensively undesrtand the knowledge gained during lectures.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Christensen, T.H.	Solid Waste Technology & Management, Volume 1 & 2	2011	Wiley Publication, United Kingdom	English
Tchobanoglous, G., Kreith, F.	Handbook of Solid Waste Management	2002	McGraw-Hill	English
Baccini, P., Brunner, P.H.	Metabolism of the Anthroposphere	2012	MIT Press, Cambridge	English
Baccini, P., Brunner, P.H.	Metabolism of the antroposphere	2012	MIT Press, Cambridge	English
Brunner, P.H., Recheberger, H.	Practical Handbook of Material Flow Analysis	2004	Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton	English