Waste treatment

This course covers the management of solid waste and by-products, whether from industry or local authorities. The course outline is as follows:

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

Hourly volumes :

CM: 21

TD : 12

Field: 12 (2 groups)

By the end of this course, students should be able to identify the waste concerned and then choose the most appropriate treatment method, taking into account all constraints (technical, ecological, economic and social).

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Recommended prerequisites :

Knowledge of wastewater treatment systems

Knowledge of waste treatment systems

At the end of this course, students will be able to :

- Propose and justify the choice of a waste treatment process

- Discuss the advantages/disadvantages of heat treatments

- Explain how a sorting and recycling chain is set up

- Describe the operation of the anaerobic digestion treatment system

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