Waste treatment

This course deals with the management of solid wastes and by-products, whether they come from the industrial environment or from communities. The course outline is as follows:

1. Collection and characterization of waste
2. Treatment strategy
3. Recycling and recovery
4. Landfill
5. Heat treatments
6. Biological treatments (methanization, composting)
7. Radioactive waste management

Hourly volumes:

CM : 21

TD : 12

Field: 12 (2 groups)

At the end of this course, students will be able to identify the concerned waste and then choose the appropriate treatment method by integrating all the constraints (technical, ecological, economic, social).

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Recommended prerequisites:

Knowledge of wastewater treatment systems

Knowledge of waste treatment systems

Upon completion of this UE students will be able to:

- To propose and justify the choice of a waste treatment method

- Discuss the advantages/disadvantages of heat treatments

- Explain how a sorting-recycling chain is set up

- To describe the operation of the methanation treatment system

- Describe the fuel cycle and explain the radioactive waste treatment system